Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 2 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 3 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 4 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 5 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 6 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 7 | Once this idea is accepted in principle , it remains to ask at what stage a grasp of the mutual dependence between social theory and social science might be capable of helping us with the problem of holism . |
| 8 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's no chance of seeing you through the day is there ? ’ |
| 10 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 11 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 12 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |
| 13 | The Padre , consulted as to the propriety of firing them at the enemy , had given his opinion that they could perfectly well be fired and that they , or any other such popish or Tractarian objects , would very likely wreak terrible havoc . |
| 14 | She wondered if there was the faintest chance of impressing them with the significance of her position . |
| 15 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 16 | Whether the reader disagrees with that message or not , Eliot can not be accused of suddenly presenting it or of bringing it to the fore simply because of his Christian faith . |
| 17 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 18 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 19 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 20 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 21 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 22 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 23 | Erm , we started off with was that , erm , we would just write down any word that came up to our head , in terms of relating it to the story i.e. we thought about memories , and memories Erm , this is gon na match up with your is n't it . |
| 24 | Despite the difficulties of relating it to the archaeology , Bede 's statement about the origins of the Germanic settlers in England is generally accepted . |
| 25 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 26 | THE Uranus-Neptune contact is aimed at changing your personal horizons in the sense of opening you to the idea that life can be different — and so can you . |
| 27 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 28 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 29 | The trouble was this : although the native dispenser had applied Dr Dunstaple 's treatments on numerous occasions under his direction , he was overcome by stage-fright at the prospect of applying them to the Doctor Sahib himself . |
| 30 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |