Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 2 | Although Burda talks of maintaining its share of the upper end of the periodicals market this has been interpreted as a delaying tactic , to allow the magazine to bow out gracefully . |
| 3 | ‘ A very challenging and exciting time lies ahead for Magnus and I am confident of maintaining its position as the ‘ investors ’ choice . |
| 4 | If for some reason you can not or choose not to attend a course , then you will have to find some means of charting your progress with the limited help made available by colleagues . |
| 5 | He missed Aintree 's colour and clamour , the release of easing his mount to the first fence after the parade . |
| 6 | in the course of that business acquired his interest in the article or substance supplied to the customer as a means of financing its acquisition by the customer from a third person ( ‘ the effective supplier ’ ) , |
| 7 | If the horse is to be trailered , it should first have some experience of eating its dinner in the trailer . |
| 8 | Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) . |
| 9 | Could it be that he was aware of Van Butchell 's intentions and saw this as a means of bringing his technique to the notice of the public , being able , at the same time , to lay any charge of indecency at Van Butchell 's door , if it arose ? |
| 10 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 11 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 12 | Before a youth was apprenticed to the Sechem he was committed to a number of years of study of the Yasa , memorising the codex in its entirety so that he was capable of relating his knowledge of the law to science . |
| 13 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 14 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 15 | The England squad — ranked fourth in the world — will be selected following trials in December , and the team 's coach , Betty Galsworthy , will relish the prospect of pitting her team against the world champions from New Zealand and second-ranked Australia prior to the 1991 world tournament . |
| 16 | Through sorcery , the Piaroa shaman leader is highly violent on a daily basis toward the end of protecting his community from the dangers of disease and death , both being considered to be attacks by cannibalistic beings from both this and other worlds . |
| 17 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 18 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 19 | Making notes is the best way of keeping your mind on the task at hand . |
| 20 | But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third . |
| 21 | His bill was intended to deprive the debtor of the power of insulting his creditor on the one hand and to restrain the creditor from tyrannizing over his debtor on the other . |
| 22 | The carriage window was quickly let down , and the Queen and Prince Consort … turned with smiling faces to the multitude who thought only of expressing their loyalty to the utmost . |
| 23 | The metaphysical poets of the 17th century were rarely interested in pastoral as a game and preferred to move on to a more realistic way of expressing their discontentment with the mercantile age they lived in . |
| 24 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 25 | Thus Tsarism did show signs of establishing its power after the 1905 revolution . |
| 26 | Organisations of all kinds look to our sponsorship as a means of associating their name with enjoyment and a high standard of endeavour and of establishing their commitment to the activities of the broader community . |
| 27 | Organisations of all kinds look to sponsorship as a means of associating their name with enjoyment and excellence and of establishing their commitment to the activities of the broader community . |
| 28 | Sergio and Bacco , Lothar had begun the process of establishing his control in the diaconate , the area round his church . |
| 29 | In the following sentence the narrator comments on what happened a week later than the time of the lady 's speech , from the point of view of his context at the time of writing his contribution to the novel , In a week afterwards … |
| 30 | He often comes down to the evening meal drained and exhausted after a day of writing his name at the bottom of letters like these . |