Example sentences of "of [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite independent of the social merits of re-using a redundant building to provide comfortable dwellings for local people at modest rents , a main factor encouraging the retention of All Saints Church was the value accorded by the local authority planners to the building for its contribution to the townscape . |
| 2 | What are the problems of allowing a high-priority device to interrupt the servicing of a low-priority device ? |
| 3 | Carrington made the mistake of allowing a small smile to show . |
| 4 | I have already set out the dangers of allowing a governmental authority to have the right to sue . |
| 5 | While I like the idea of allowing a different pianist to combine with strings for each work , I miss that element of personality and insight which a great soloist such as Rubinstein brought to this music . |
| 6 | During the takeover battle , questions were raised about the desirability of allowing a foreign airline to bid for a British airline , providing access to Britain 's second largest ‘ hub ’ . |
| 7 | The university teacher in Britain , thinking of producing a tape-slide sequence to explain a particular concept or process to his students , may well need only to consider , with a production assistant , the learning objectives , the structure of the process to be considered , the best ways to exemplify this in the photographs to be taken , the graphics to design , and the commentary to write , and then turn it all over to the producer to put into effect , with his guidelines and help . |
| 8 | She had elected to keep the group to women only , instead of employing a male model to act as bridegroom , but as she came out of the dressing-room she would have welcomed someone to walk by her side . |
| 9 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |
| 10 | The Labour MP , Clive Soley , has accused Michael Heseltine of meeting a Saudi prince to discuss donations to the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | FORMER Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough was accused yesterday of liking a personal pay-off to help transfer deals go through . |
| 12 | FORMER Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough was accused yesterday of liking a personal pay-off to help transfer deals go through . |
| 13 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 14 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
| 15 | A method of gall bladder tissue culture from the guinea pig gall bladder has been developed in the hope of providing a direct tool to study the biological and immunological characteristics of these cells . |
| 16 | In this chapter we shall examine a construction which has the basic value of providing a subordinate property to assist in identification of some entity when this is not fully achieved by the noun . |
| 17 | On the one hand , you have the country 's premier club in the process of spending a small fortune to reconstruct an ageing team : on the other , a Second Division side thriving on young , home-grown talent who may have to be sold to Liverpool and other members of the wealthy elite . |
| 18 | He liked burials , the ritual pleased him and the prospect of having a new grave to tend . |
| 19 | Th the principle of having a large number to spare |
| 20 | Even Marshall had brushed aside all suggestions of having a few minutes to spare to give Harbury something exclusive . |
| 21 | You may have recollections of taking a long time to achieve competence in one particular skill , and wonder whether on returning you will be given adequate time to practise and revise . |
| 22 | THE Government was accused yesterday of concocting a fudged list to gloss over the real dangers of microwave ovens found to be faulty in its own tests . |
| 23 | In Oklahoma both main parties held run-off elections to complete the process , begun with the primaries of Aug. 28 , of selecting a gubernatorial candidate to succeed Harry Bellmon ( Rep. ) , who was retiring . |
| 24 | The small surplus that is distributed is so limited that it can not be shared by all , but patronage is a mechanism of selecting a few workers to benefit . |
| 25 | This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support . |
| 26 | During their visit they took a video camera with the intention of making a short film to show what conditions are really like . |
| 27 | The technique , which he published , was quite complicated , and he described in his book how he was on the point of making a rotary machine to do it all automatically , when William Nicholson [ q.v. ] sent him his own version , which performed very well . |
| 28 | She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration . |
| 29 | They feel that there is a danger of being dazzled by it and thus of missing a unique opportunity to make sense of the early history of animal evolution . |
| 30 | A communiqué issued on Jan. 10 stressed the importance " of a decisive renewal of the entire system of mutual co-operation and of the mechanism of multilateral co-operation within the CMEA framework , of a radical review of its functions and purposes , of drafting a new charter to meet the modern and long-term requirements of interaction among the CMEA member countries " . |