Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is necessary , therefore , to make as attractive as possible the opportunities and challenge of singing or playing in church . |
| 2 | Australian captain Woodfull is hit by a ball form Larwood in the Adelaide Test : a violent eruption of booing and shouting by spectators was triggered |
| 3 | If the traditional methods of scything and grazing by sheep were re-introduced , management committees would save on cutting costs and encourage the growth of wild flowers . |
| 4 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 5 | Strawson begins his discussion with an account of what he calls the ‘ reactive attitudes ’ which we display to others whenever we treat them as responsible moral agents , capable of forming and acting on intentions . |
| 6 | Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act . |
| 7 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 8 | The BLISS survey , compiled in spring this year , also found examples of understaffing and under-resourcing on wards . |
| 9 | Some people go out armed for hours of waiting and watching with flasks of hot tea and coffee but , with a good pair of binoculars , badgers can be watched in comfort from the roadside . |
| 10 | Austrian parents do not have to suffer the embarrassment of going and asking for charity just to send their children to school looking like everyone else . |
| 11 | Drug use can put us at risk of getting or passing on HIV through unsafe sex and through sharing works |
| 12 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 13 | Times of meals , flexibility about times of rising and going to bed . |
| 14 | I was happy to agree with this because it seemed to me that teachers were not ready for all the problems of assessment of speaking and listening for pupils aged 14 to 16 , and for the profile component to be given a 20 per cent weighting would be a considerable step forward . |
| 15 | to find out the needs of parents of children under five and work with them to help facilitate those needs , … to help parents help their children acquire useful skills and act as a bridge between home and school , … and to increase a shared community spirit and foster an attitude of sharing and support between parents and other parents in the local neighbourhood , alongside the paid professionals and voluntary agencies . |
| 16 | If you are in a band where there is a lot of chopping and changing between electro-acoustic and chunky electric , then check this guitar out immediately . |
| 17 | ( 7 ) For the purpose of attending and voting at meetings a member of a recognised body shall not appoint as a proxy or corporate representative any person other than a solicitor who is a member or officer of or who is working in the practice of , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a member or director of , ( a ) the recognised body or ( b ) a recognised body which is itself a member of the recognised body . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) For the purpose of attending and voting at meetings a member of a recognised body shall not appoint as proxy or corporate representative any person other than a solicitor who is a member or officer of or who is working in the practice of , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a member or director of , ( a ) the recognised body or ( b ) a recognised body which is itself a member of the recognised body . |
| 19 | For the purpose of attending and voting at meetings a member shall not appoint any person as a proxy or corporate representative contrary to the Rules . |
| 20 | For the purpose of attending and voting at meetings a member shall not appoint any person as a proxy or corporate representative contrary to the Rules . |
| 21 | That means that after years of scrimping and saving at Charlton Lawrence should enjoy the luxury of preparing for the big time with money to spend . |
| 22 | Accounting as a means of collecting and reporting on patterns of expenditure has played a not insignificant role in shaping the policies pursued by the various public sector organizations . |
| 23 | Naturally most are related to teaching and learning , the major business of the school ; the other activities reinforce the messages of respecting and caring for others . |
| 24 | The exact title though is only important in one respect , namely in convincing staff of the desirability of having some way of judging and commenting upon performance and gaining their acceptance and co-operation . |
| 25 | I think it is arguable that the fact that Channel 4 did do something different , and for much of this period has had almost half of its management structure female , actually led , inside the Channel , to a totally taken-for-granted different way of behaving and thinking about things , and a lack of poncing around , a lack of all these other structures and hierarchies . |
| 26 | It 's entirely open to you to reject our way of working but to accept with equanimity the fact of our working . |
| 27 | There followed several years of working and travelling in Spain , France and Italy , punctuated by breaks of living and working in London . |
| 28 | For this reason , research and education programmes must continue to identify ways of preventing or dealing with alcohol abuse . |
| 29 | Once aware of what the problems are , the nurse can help the patient to develop alternative ways of detecting and responding to hazards in the environment , thereby maintaining maximum independence for this AL . |
| 30 | The daily treatment involves hours of stretching and excercising with weights . |