Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Adrian seems unhappy with the idea of drawing up a vast catalogue of top management attributes and is more inclined to the view that being a good senior executive is something gleaned from hard experience . |
| 2 | That report says : ’ We do not recommend a requirement to indicate animal rearing methods on foods labels we therefore recommend that the possibility of drawing up a standard system , which clearly defines terms to indicate welfare-orientated rearing methods , should be considered ’ . |
| 3 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 4 | ANC leaders suggested that equal status be given to all participants in the process of drawing up a new constitution . |
| 5 | The NLA , which held its first session on March 29 , came under attack from various politicians who claimed that its members were unqualified for the task of drawing up a new constitution . |
| 6 | The task of drawing out the main points from the mass of data takes considerable practice and is time consuming . |
| 7 | This seventeenth-century mosaic ( above , right ) illustrates the way in which different species of small birds may uniquely work together to deal with the shared problem of seeing off a feared predator . |
| 8 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 9 | This he believed would meet the political need without incurring the cost of building up a new fleet of surface ships and perpetrating the military nonsense of mixed manning . |
| 10 | Skiing in November is not unheard of in Scotland : last year it snowed heavily in the west Highlands in October but the warmer weather in December and January put paid to any hopes of building up a decent depth of snow pack . |
| 11 | Sam realized that , for the first time , Clare was yelling at him instead of building up a silent volcano of resentment . |
| 12 | It should be added that for the sake of building up a realistic scenario for the exercise , incidents involving ‘ enemy ’ forces are interjected . |
| 13 | In the household , we may find ourselves acting as ‘ memory ’ to the whole family , both in the prosaic sense of keeping lists of jobs and obligations in mind , and also in the sense of building up an extended record of family life with photos , souvenirs and diaries . |
| 14 | It is possible , in response to these apparent counter-examples to a context-independent notion of linguistic competence , simply to retreat : the rules can be left unconstrained and allowed to generate unacceptable sentences , and a performance theory of pragmatics assigned the job of filtering out the acceptable sentences . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ said Fenella as Caspar trotted round to her chair , under cover of bringing round a Human-sized bowl of fruit . |
| 16 | ‘ How 's Angharad ? ’ asked Betty , who had , last night , discussed at length with Elizabeth the problems and frustrations of bringing up a defective child and felt thus freed to go on talking about it . |
| 17 | At the rime of bringing up a young family it might be expected that the woman 's role would be primarily in the home . |
| 18 | Paul went on his way in rising anger , fearful of bringing on a bad head by it . |
| 19 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 20 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 21 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |
| 22 | Conventional and gradualist as its recommendations tended to be , the Royal Commission can take credit for laying the foundations of the practice of bringing in a senior officer from another force to investigate complaints against the police . |
| 23 | Perhaps the essential task of bringing in the new democracies of eastern Europe will founder on economic collapse , ethnic unrest and social upheaval . |
| 24 | Changes in the entry of calcium ions , or the phosphorylation of membrane constituents , or the activation of NMDA receptors , all seem plausible ways of bringing about a temporary change in the electrical properties of a cell , but what makes the change persist — what puts the L into LTP — should be the important question , if LTP is really to serve as a model for long-term memory . |
| 25 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 26 | Despite apparent sympathy with Menshevik moderation between 1908 and 1912 , they never accepted the idea of winding up the underground party . |
| 27 | There are two ways of walking along a rocky beach . |
| 28 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 29 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 30 | Others , most notably James Meade , had taken the all important step of opening up the Keynesian model so as to take account of and explain international trade and capital flows . |