Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She entered upon the slow crucifixion of seeing her son take the lonely , sad and inevitable road to his cross . |
| 2 | This principle was extended to civil servants who had the alternative remedy of taking their complaints to an industrial tribunal . |
| 3 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 4 | The DMT was aware of the existence of the concept of a comprehensive inter-agency service , but knew that if they were to test the feasibility of implementing it , ‘ it would take an enormous amount of time ’ . |
| 5 | The CAR are studying the feasibility of converting them to electronic warfare trainers . |
| 6 | THE development of Britain 's atomic power programme could be resurrected under plans being considered by British Nuclear Fuels which is looking at the feasibility of establishing itself as a major player in the post-privatisation electricity market . |
| 7 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 8 | Thinking of Taking Someone On ? |
| 9 | ‘ Thinking of using it ? ’ |
| 10 | Thinking of buying myself one . |
| 11 | Kenny 's thinking of calling them Ken Coats after himself . |
| 12 | Rain took a couple of steps before thinking of asking him to telephone again . |
| 13 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 14 | Thinking of tossing your bouquet in younger sister 's direction ? |
| 15 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 16 | ‘ Our experience should be a warning to all couples thinking of doing what we did . |
| 17 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 18 | The operator is only used to give special service to customers and to connect incoming calls , while the extensions have the convenience and speed of dialling their own calls . |
| 19 | It is said that in the United States the overload of cases and the dominance of the system by plea bargaining mean that the theoretical presumption of innocence is replaced by an actual presumption of guilt in which the costs to the defendant of contesting his or her innocence are frequently overpowering . |
| 20 | The distress of leaving them no doubt contributed to the ‘ sudden & severe indisposition of Mrs Gould … which inducing the utmost fears for her safety , rendered it very doubtful up to the last moment whether they would be able to go or not … ’ |
| 21 | I then remembered Lubor 's mention of having your business card on his desk . ’ |
| 22 | Do n't risk the disappointment of buying your boy a model train that will not go . |
| 23 | He was beginning to feel unaccountably cheerful despite the disappointment of missing his customary pint of beer . |
| 24 | TELEVISION South are determined to make this year 's Telethon the best ever , despite the disappointment of losing its franchise . |
| 25 | Pons says this was as a result of seeing his and Fleischmann 's work , whereas Jones insists that the DOE suggested it . |
| 26 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 27 | You do n't study these subjects at college : they are the incidental , unintended , beneficial result of submitting yourself to " the college experience " . |
| 28 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |
| 29 | In a system as complex as human memory , the result of erasing what they call parasitic connections may have the effect of sharpening and making more accessible those cognitive structures which represent our worlds . |
| 30 | First , the increase in poverty may be a result of ageing itself : for example , reaching the statutory retirement age causes a marked drop in most elderly people 's incomes . |