Example sentences of "[noun] of [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 2 | This was even more embarrassing , for Donleavy 's strictures about keeping away from the embassy had focussed particularly on the risks of associating with the Drug Enforcement Administration 's ‘ cowboys ’ , the DIA 's contempt for the CIA under William Casey being exceeded only by its detestation of the DEA . |
| 3 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 4 | With the death of Fisher , ended the association of Halling with the Bishops . |
| 5 | Entitled ‘ See Yourself in Hair d-sign ’ this video is aimed to encourage those thinking of starting in the business from scratch . |
| 6 | There was a good deal of plotting in the Cabinet , and amongst the dissident ex-Coalitionists . |
| 7 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 8 | Following the war , a great deal of redrafting of the official creed took place , and Scouting for Boys was repeatedly updated so that not only was militarism explicitly disowned , but the earlier racial imperialism was swapped for international brotherhood and goodwill . |
| 9 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 10 | For example , we might have 10000 cattle distributed over 100 farms ; a simple random sample of 200 cattle is likely to involve most of these herds , resulting in a great deal of travelling by the investigators . |
| 11 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 12 | Self-directed learning takes a great deal of planning by the teaching team , and teachers are reluctant to let go of the responsibility of being the main teaching resource . |
| 13 | At the Hammersmith Schools at West London Stadium , the ground was always packed and there was a lot of enthusiasm and a good deal of betting on the races going on . |
| 14 | Picking my way over the cobbles , slimy and damp with centuries of hiding from the sun , I reached the musty room where I collected my raincoat from the attendant . |
| 15 | Table 4.4 Recent trading history on MATIF , main contracts The Government Bond futures and options contracts account for the bulk of trading on the MATIF . |
| 16 | In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son . |
| 17 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 18 | One of desktop publishing 's less clever methods of getting round the slowness of high resolution displays on the PC . |
| 19 | The question at issue is not so much prison reform — although our prison buildings are now shamefully antiquated , obsolete and , for the most part , entirely unsuitable for use as penal establishments — as the provision of up-to-date and more enlightened methods of dealing with the problem of treating the offender , and in particular the juvenile offender . |
| 20 | Scientists diving and photographing in blue water have devised methods of dealing with the possibilities of runaway icebergs , strong currents and disorientation by using a system of safety divers and tethers . |
| 21 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 22 | The construction is interesting and throws light on the Roman methods of dealing with the problem of erecting such a structure on a level site to accommodate some 45,000 to 50,000 people . |
| 23 | This new group was taken by coach to Liverpool before the move so that they could get to know their new managers and the methods of working before the relocation exercise . |
| 24 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 25 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 26 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 27 | With regard to the quality of actual provision in school libraries , the level of understanding of libraries and the use to which they are put , and the adequacy of resourcing across the country , give cause for much concern . |
| 28 | The operation has to be performed within limits of 1 mm and any deviation from this may have disastrous consequences , resulting in total loss of hearing in the ear being operated upon . |
| 29 | Tendinitis ( constriction of the nerve tissues caused by over development of arm muscles , leading to loss of feeling in the hands ) is a regular paddock malady . |
| 30 | ‘ The disappointment of losing in the final has gone . |