Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had Shirley Brown had to mention the point on her brief visit to him earlier that morning , and sowed those slowly germinating seeds of doubt ? |
| 2 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 3 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 4 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 5 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 6 | ‘ Experiments of nature ’ , the naturally occurring fluctuations of life experience , have therefore been resorted to , but though these have raised some intriguing questions they have so far provided few conclusive answers . |
| 7 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 8 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 9 | The drawl of Judge Thomas Longhorne Colpeper , pompously expounding points of law ; the gentle Detroit brogue of Trooper Washington Burnside , whose gun she still carried ; the primal shriek of Cheeks , who had been maddened by the D.I.V.O.R.C.E . |
| 10 | The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality . |
| 11 | For some of them , eagerly selling six-packs of beer on street corners , the new Berlin is full of opportunities . |
| 12 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 14 | The two processes are , so to speak , symbiotically related ; they are the mutually reinforcing determinants of development . |
| 15 | Only unappetizing parts of animal carcasses remained for the domestic market . |
| 16 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 17 | The Oxford Dictionary of the English Church ( Oxford , reprint 1985 ) is a valuable aid , especially regarding details of church dignitaries and holders of high religious office . |
| 18 | Long standing prisoners of conscience Vera and the late Orton Chirwa , who had received no visitors for eight years before the delegation met them . |
| 19 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 20 | In order to encourage the winter tourist industry , it had a winter fair featuring exhibitions of interest to farmers , and many winter sport events . |
| 21 | This has even displaced the market mechanism as an allocator of resources in certain areas , thereby politicising spheres of activity formerly left to the market to perform . |
| 22 | The Habsburgs , though they kept a tight hold on much of Europe , were not the longest serving overlords of Aarau . |
| 23 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 24 | If suitable machines are chosen , these graphics facilities can include such things as multiple pages and views ( thus allowing very rapid animation of a short sequence of pictures ) , a large number of shades or colours to be used in one display ( thus allowing effects of shading , shadow and three dimensions to be shown ) , shades on the screen ‘ instantly ’ changeable to any of a large range of ‘ colours ’ available , and superimposition of two different graphic views , low-resolution graphics and text . |
| 25 | A warm roof space is created , thus eliminating problems of condensation and burst pipes . |
| 26 | It 's already causing howls of outrage from the industry . |
| 27 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 28 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 29 | The time has passed quickly and it is now getting dusk , the mosquitoes have arrived and the German mortaring of the orchard has started , the first salvo exploding a short distance away causing pieces of earth to fall from the logs covering the roof of the trench , the earth and other bits of debris falling onto the now empty mess-tins . |
| 30 | Trampling of vegetation is one of the most widespread environmentally degrading repercussions of recreation and can also lead to excessive soil erosion . |