Example sentences of "[adv] of [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after an hour or so of trudging into the stiff wind , a slight feeling of despair crept over me . |
| 2 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 3 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 4 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 5 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 6 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 7 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 8 | Massive structural changes were necessary to facilitate a move onto the land ; legs were needed — or at least became handy — to relieve the pressure of the amphibious bodies hitherto capable only of slithering along the ground . |
| 9 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 10 | They have pushed south to within 100 miles of Baghdad , and talk optimistically of marching on the capital . |
| 11 | In this section we look at some ways of doing this , and more generally of getting from the planning stage to the writing stage . |
| 12 | Isabel suspected her still of watching behind the curtains for Blattern . |
| 13 | Put simply , it is ( to recover the Platonic imagery for a moment ) a matter not just of seeing the light , but also of living in the light . |
| 14 | He is one of the few first-class players who make a point also of drinking in the public bar at grounds rather than cocooning himself away in the players ’ or sponsors ' lounges . |
| 15 | She thought wildly of dashing to the windows , out on to the balcony . |
| 16 | Last year 's holiday was great , last year , and I might get a bit of enjoyment out of looking at the photographs , but I 'm still paying for one again this year ! |
| 17 | I 'd hate anyone to think that I did well out of dealing with the problem page . |
| 18 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
| 19 | Now , however a new layout has been agreed by the course bookmakers association and the racecourse executive which could take much of the hassle out of betting at the track . |
| 20 | I 'll leave that to those who seem to get their kicks out of harping on the negative side of this great game . |
| 21 | But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge . |
| 22 | Taking the worry out of caring for the departed . |
| 23 | His two main sponsors have dropped out of racing for the moment leaving him chasing a £3,000 shortfall . |
| 24 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 25 | The surroundings were wholly out of keeping with the importance of the people there and the nature of their task . |
| 26 | He also felt it to be out of keeping with the scale of neighbouring dwellings , particularly the Old School House . |
| 27 | The suggested move towards a centrally-determined curriculum , however , was still out of keeping with the spirit of the times . |
| 28 | Any idea of codification was out of keeping with the English tradition of relatively unfettered judicial discretion and the elasticity of the common law . |
| 29 | In the new context , these were quite out of keeping with the times , for the poor had to change as well as everyone else . |
| 30 | When conduct on the part of a government or some other public body is dubbed ‘ unconstitutional ’ , what is often meant is not necessarily that the law has been broken , but rather that the action is out of keeping with the style or , more broadly , the ‘ way of life ’ of a country … |