Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of using microbes for the early stages of such studies were well known and their biochemistry provided a convenient starting point for several investigators , especially in America . |
| 2 | In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe . |
| 3 | For some teachers , " database creation " might well bring to mind a class of using microcomputers as an efficient means of collating , storing and retrieving information about the local enviroment , about 19th century village life or about the class itself . |
| 4 | You should have some experience of using Data-Star in a biomedical , pharmaceutical , or chemical field . |
| 5 | This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week . |
| 6 | ‘ But out of the research came the notion of using sugar as a raw material for all kinds of products — for making alcohol , plastics , pesticides and detergents . ’ |
| 7 | The meeting had been called by the party 's political bureau , which on Aug. 27 had accused the extreme right of using events in the Soviet Union to relaunch an attack on the party . |
| 8 | The new association is a way of drawing attention to the Muslim technocrats around the president . |
| 9 | For individuals the centre offers the opportunity to develop personal skills and the possibility of submitting work for a higher degree or DBA of Brunel University , based on either full-time or part-time study and PhD or MPhil by full-time study . |
| 10 | For individuals the centre offers the opportunity to develop personal skills and the possibility of submitting work for a higher degree , DBA , PhD or MPhil of Brunel University . |
| 11 | US President George Bush on Jan. 11 welcomed the move as " a very sound step " , and cited the announcement as a justification for his policy of maintaining contacts with the Chinese government [ see p. 37122 for visits to China by senior US officials in July and December 1989 ] . |
| 12 | Each was conscious of its isolation , each felt the necessity of maintaining contact with the Labour movement . |
| 13 | The Labour Party rebuff had impressed the ILP leaders with the difficulties of maintaining contact with the Labour movement while allied with the Communist Party . |
| 14 | As before there were considerations of restricting overall investment to physical availability of materials , and of maintaining leverage over the nationalised industries as part of Keynesian demand management in the economy ( allowing greater expenditure when a slump threatened and reining it in when the economy appeared to be overheating ) . |
| 15 | Instead of seeing Hollywood as a powerful rival to be confronted and challenged , British producers have too often looked upon the US film industry as a much-wooed lady who will one day fall into their arms . |
| 16 | Tatiana Rovkatch , 12 , remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant . |
| 17 | Probably as a result of seeing photographs in the Great Exhibition in London and at the Société Héliographique in Paris , Fenton began his own photographic experiments . |
| 18 | Merchant ( 1982 ) , for example , believes that from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , the scientific view of Nature began to change ; instead of seeing Nature as an organic and harmonious entity , it began to be seen as external and chaotic ; the role of science was to exploit it . |
| 19 | What studies did contribute to was its amendment , its clarification , its reinterpretation , its revision , its incorporation and almost replacement by other perspectives , in light of accumulating evidence from a wide range of studies . |
| 20 | Midland can process both Access and Visa transactions , providing retail customers with an efficient and effective means of accepting payments from a substantial consumer market . |
| 21 | Currently , there is an enormous need to use communication to heighten male leadership 's understanding of the importance of accepting women on an equal basis in development . |
| 22 | MacKenna J. held that there was an implied term that in such a case the seller was not completely excused from all performance but that the buyer had the option of accepting delivery of the reduced quantity , at a pro rata price . |
| 23 | But in 1979 , to the Elysée 's amazement and consternation , Roger Gicquel , anchorman on TFI ‘ s 8 p.m. news , alluded — albeit prudently — to what was becoming a French ‘ Watergate ’ — ‘ l'affaire des diamants ’ , in which President Giscard was suspected of accepting diamonds from the self-styled ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa . |
| 24 | The principle of including words of a former age in a modern rite is well established through the use of anthems . |
| 25 | R.S. engaged the spouses of relocating employees in the new location when this was appropriate and publicised employment opportunities in the surrounding area . |
| 26 | Over 400 Holybourne residents have signed a petition urging the authorities to take measures to protect villagers from the dangers of speeding traffic along the old London Road . |
| 27 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 28 | Potten et al have recently described a software package which generates frequency plots of labelling indices against the exact cell position within the crypt . |
| 29 | The impact of the ending of job opportunities in an overcrowded London , combined with the effect of the Speenhamland system of subsidising wages under the old Poor Law , produced an underpaid , stable , demoralised and pauperised work force by the early nineteenth century which reached its maximum income relatively early . |
| 30 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |