Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |
| 2 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |
| 3 | One useful operation is zooming or magnifying a portion of the image so that it fills the screen . |
| 4 | By manipulating the glove , the user can interact with the virtual world , handling and manipulating objects or using a repertoire of gestures as commands . |
| 5 | It may help your child to hold on to memories of the past and to begin to think about changes in the future by painting pictures , making a tape recording or keeping a scrapbook of family events . |
| 6 | Forget the idea of spreading material over a period of time or developing a number of different characters . ’ |
| 7 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |
| 8 | Three main options for reform are considered : strengthening existing legislation ; introducing a prohibition system ; or operating a combination of the two . |
| 9 | Anwar had n't compromised in the slightest , not nibbling a biscuit or sipping a glass of water or smoking a single cigarette . |
| 10 | And this is a short lease here — we have to provide for buying something or paying a hell of a lot more rent . |
| 11 | They may be planned deliberately to give the undergraduate a good general education , for example by sampling or balancing a number of types of knowledge , or they may he planned in terms of an applied , problem focus such as environmental control , or a broad theme such as modern urban society , or in terms of some concept of individual development . |
| 12 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 13 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 14 | Her very ordinariness was celebrated ; everyday gestures such as opening a car door herself or buying a bag of sweets were acclaimed as evidence of a very human princess . |
| 15 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 16 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 18 | Around the end of the silent era and in the early sound days , the glass was actually in front of the camera during shooting , possibly adding storeys to a low building or giving a view of non-existent distant hills , or whatever was required . |
| 19 | ‘ Article 77 Section I : striking or assaulting a member of camp administration , fifteen years to death . |
| 20 | You have considerable flexibility and can choose between : not taking a lump sum , taking the maximum amount allowed or taking a portion of it only ( whatever sum you decide ) . |
| 21 | Ever found time flying when you 're taking a bath or drinking a cup of tea ? |
| 22 | In terms of the principles involved , we could be talking here about playing chess or reading a page of text . |
| 23 | This approach could involve studying the statistical distribution of child abuse , or comparing a group of known child abusers with a non-abusing control group , in order to try to identify and isolate some of the factors that make it more likely that some parents will abuse their children . |
| 24 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 25 | Each of the ‘ good ’ events can be considered as either adding to or modifying a unit of living physical matter contributing to the ultimate man , and by so doing , at the same time created a unit of ‘ goodness ’ contributing to the ever-growing power of the developing God . |
| 26 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 27 | Imagine several movements your hand habitually makes — like holding a saw , peeling potatoes , rubbing in cream or making a pot of tea . |
| 28 | Or making a meal of it y Making a meal it you mean ? |
| 29 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 30 | Always consider the possibility of reducing or avoiding a source of risk completely . |