Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 2 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 3 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 4 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 5 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 6 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 7 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 8 | Time magazine was another way of keeping up with Western life . |
| 9 | You were sort of dallying about from one foot to the other . |
| 10 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 11 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |
| 12 | A Brazilian court , creating national legal history , has convicted a logger of operating illegally on Indian land . |
| 13 | Royal and local government often give the impression of operating independently of each other , on two separate planes . |
| 14 | Different cultures should be understood as different paths towards the same basic goal — that of living together in relative peace , in communion with one another and our environment . |
| 15 | Oh the idea of saving now for this year 's Christmas present , there 's one small snag , it will cost around £60,000 . |
| 16 | During learning , each training instance is presented just once , and the learning process consists of writing once to each RAM chip . |
| 17 | I have no way of writing fluently about this past . |
| 18 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
| 19 | Possibly their bruises were simply the effect of ejecting on to hard sand from a fast aircraft . |
| 20 | As noted above , a majority of Oxfordshire teachers are in favour of going on to second round of reviews and reports . |
| 21 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 22 | And obviously longer term if you can get er a victory tonight then obviously it sets you up with a reasonably good chance of of going through from this group because two home wins , a couple of away games to go , and i it would set you up nicely . |
| 23 | This thought , of why Jasper consented to let her sleep here , instead of going up to another room , or asking her to go , made her mind swirl , as if it — her mind was nauseous . |
| 24 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 25 | It 's quite good on D'Urbino and Speckle particularly ; if you were ever thinking of going back to that monograph . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I thought of going out for some choc bars , ’ he would say , adding sotto voce as his daughter ran for her anorak , ‘ and I thought we might drop off at the gym/piano teacher's/library on the way … ’ |
| 27 | There is not a chance of going unobtrusively through any area where these birds are breeding ! |
| 28 | The mere signal of takeover intentions normally engenders a rise in the share price , hence a lessening in the advantages of selling out to another party . |
| 29 | If only there was some other means of getting away from this place . |
| 30 | He declared on television that " Poland 's painful but necessary programme of getting out of economic catastrophe can only be realized with the understanding of the majority of the nation " and that " the country had made its choice " . |