Example sentences of "of [noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 2 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 3 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 4 | Despite a world recession and a double-figure percentage decline in visitors to the American Disney parks , the company 's spending , maintenance of standards and rolling out of new projects that ‘ give folks good reasons to come back ’ , is prodigious . |
| 5 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 6 | It 's dependent on the purposeful pulling of triggers and setting off of bombs . |
| 7 | In the newly emerging cities this meadow was symbolized in the Broletto , even after the communes had taken all powers in the making of laws and handing out of justice away from the church . |
| 8 | ‘ Sure , ’ he said , moving a pile of paperbacks and sitting down in my fake Bauhaus leather and steel chair ( one of a set , of one ) . |