Example sentences of "of [det] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 2 | He shuddered a little , but whether at the memory of this vomiting by the water 's edge or of something even uglier Wexford could not tell . |
| 3 | The sea was not rough , but there was quite a heavy swell , and the noise of this breaking on the reefs and skerries to their left was daunting to the uninitiated . |
| 4 | It all comes of this traipsing about the moor . " |
| 5 | Look , in my day , before the war , we always had wingers , none of this booting up the middle and hoping for the best . |
| 6 | There were very few birdwatchers , about sixteen in the county , and it was quite different in those days — there was none of this rushing around the countryside , 2,000 people going to look at a rare bird . |
| 7 | However , undoubtedly the most extraordinary aspect of this grumbling against the tendency of the working class to assert its noisome presence in places where it clearly had no right to go , was to be found in the magnified excitements which surrounded the bicycle craze of the 1890s . |
| 8 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 9 | The Stock Exchange estimates that about 6 per cent of adults own shares , with a third of these deriving from the sale of British Telecom ( Guardian , 10 May 1986 ) . |
| 10 | A glorious garden belonging to a customer friend in Hampshire had an avenue of these leading to the dining room patio , and the effect from the house was no worse for not being puritanical . |
| 11 | In the 87-member Council of Representatives elected on July 5 , EPRDF members held 32 seats ( 10 of these going to the Tigray People 's Liberation Front — TPLF ) . |
| 12 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 13 | Hagen have six of these selling off the roll in 12″ 18″ and 24″ widths , and illustrating three tropically planted type backgrounds ; two reef style backgrounds , and a kind of tropical poolside jungle for terrariums . |
| 14 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 15 | The best guide is nominal GDP , which measures the value of all spending in the economy . |
| 16 | About 80 per cent of all giving in the United Kingdom comes from individuals , not very different from the percentage in the |
| 17 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 18 | Partnerships will need to become knowledgeable about this situation and if they come to share the anxiety of many working in the field they should voice their concern . |
| 19 | Smithers and Robinson ( 1989 ) have quoted figures which indicate that on ‘ selected university degree courses 1982–87 ’ , 17.1 % of those entering on the basis of what they describe as ‘ vocational qualifications ’ dropped out while only 7% of ‘ A ’ Level entrants dropped out . |
| 20 | It is notable that all of the groups defined as ‘ non-standard ’ , and a number of those entering on the basis of other qualifications , perform better than the average level of achievement for A-level entrants . |
| 21 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 22 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 23 | Of those participating in the ballot on Feb. 19 , 63 per cent voted to end the bitter nine-month strike by accepting a four-year contract which guaranteed the continued subsidized health care for workers — a central issue of the strike — whilst giving the employers increased flexibility in production . |
| 24 | Unlike most of those reading for the Bar or enrolled in university he felt a responsibility for less privileged Africans washed up on British shores , mainly seamen , who had no recognised place in Britain . |
| 25 | ( Rule 43 specifies that ‘ In the event of national action being proposed by the Union in pursuance of any of the objects of the Union , the following provision shall apply : that a national strike shall only be entered upon as the result of a ballot vote of the members taken in pursuance of a resolution of Conference , and a strike shall not be declared unless 55 per cent [ changed in April 1984 to ‘ a simple majority' ] of those voting in the ballot vote in favour of such a strike ’ : Crick , 1985 , pp. 149–50 . ) |
| 26 | And yet his stories are powerful studies of those living on the edge of life ; of the bitterness and intangible hostility that are the real consequences of deprivation , misfortune and wasted lives . |
| 27 | Since the height of the crisis in the early 1980s , living standards have risen again but many of those living on the margins have not made up lost ground . |
| 28 | Only 18% of patients ( 5/28 ) living in the district with no renal unit were referred compared with 41% ( 40/97 ) of those living in the Exeter district ( p<0.05 , χ 2 =6.3 , df=1 ; p<0.02 ) . |
| 29 | Many of those living in the cities are trapped : they can not afford to buy their way out , particularly not to the more prosperous areas of the south and rented accommodation — which is in any case largely urban based — is declining nationally . |
| 30 | This compares with one in four of those living in the community who were felt to have relatives who might have helped more — a difference which might well occur by chance . |