Example sentences of "[noun] of [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government favours using these new tests as a replacement for the current methods of testing at that age for admission to grammar secondary schools ( which emphasise verbal reasoning rather than attainment ) . |
| 2 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 3 | A as a result of looking at that information , the collators department . |
| 4 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 5 | If he said : " I wo n't buy until I 've seen written information on the stock " this frequently meant he had no intention of buying at all , and the astute dealer would pretend he was sending an Extel card ( a written fact sheet on the stock ) but in fact he would not bother . |
| 6 | They slipped off so I would n't approach her , which I had no intention of doing at all . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have no intention of retiring at all . |
| 8 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 9 | The figure shows that the cost disadvantage of operating at half MES depends upon the gradient of the average cost curve . |
| 10 | We believe languages should be a much more integral part of schooling at all levels . |
| 11 | ‘ But it 's a case of looking at several options before deciding the team . |
| 12 | Different qualities and complexes of qualities are registered by me in a temporally extended sequence ; none the less , they are all part of the wider experience of looking at this same bunch of flowers which I assume to exist " out there " . |
| 13 | Congratulations to all graduates and welcome to membership of a special group of people of a wide variety of ages and careers , in all parts of the world who share with you the experience of studying at this University . |
| 14 | This time , however , there was no question of fighting at all , but simply of saying ‘ Enough ! ’ ’ |
| 15 | Cos it was sort of rationing at that time . |
| 16 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 17 | Er and what was your sort of feeling at that time er about taking such as unofficial action for example ? |
| 18 | RAPHOE striker Johnny Weir had the rare distinction of scoring at both ends of the pitch in today 's Section Two encounter with a depleted Collegians side at Olympia . |
| 19 | We exemplify this using the same matrix A as above ; also , we adopt the device of reducing at each stage a homologous element ( in this case the bottom element ) to unity , beginning with co = e4 . |
| 20 | It may be generally true that the natural language use which constitutes the goal of learning is realized by a focus on meaning rather than form , and is a matter of top-down rather than bottom-up processing , but the process of arriving at that goal , the development of the authenticating ability , calls for an effective internalization of form and capability of analysis which will allow for their use across a wide and unpredictable range of different contexts . |
| 21 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 22 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 23 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 24 | It should be noted , moreover , that the ability of the present Call-slip analysis exercise to determine the date of publication of a much greater proportion of items issued ( 97% as opposed to 65% on each of the two earlier occasions ) means that its results are much more accurate , and that the higher incidence of pre-1900 publications recorded by the earlier surveys probably can , therefore , be attributed , in large measure , not to any radically different pattern of reading at these times , but to the fact that the numerous undated call-slips occurring then almost certainly contained a high proportion which related to more modern publications . |
| 25 | So in in terms of looking at this criterion , can you also er include within your thinking process , the need for the er or the possibility that the development of a new settlement could actually be a positive enhancement of the environment or make use of derelict land . |
| 26 | Are there any disasters you see in your books that might take place in this country that we 're not taking any notice of , in terms of planning at all ? |
| 27 | That there are different ways of looking at such constitutional niceties is amusingly illustrated by a story S.E. Finer reports as once going the rounds of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe : |
| 28 | There seem to be two major ways of looking at this . |
| 29 | There are two ways of looking at this more general question : it is either an opportunity or a trap . |
| 30 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |