Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extensive grassland based systems are especially sparing of energy use ( 14 ) and could well assume an increasing importance not only for this reason but also because the rate of expansion of production has now declined to around 2% per annum in lowland agriculture and may not increase ( 15 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're just dying of curiosity , ai n't you , pussycat ? ’ |
| 3 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 4 | If you delay it until he/she is two or three years old , it is probably because you are subconsciously thinking of discipline as something unpleasant rather than a positive way of giving direction and equipping the child for |
| 5 | ‘ They are also dying of hunger . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm always dying of thirst . |
| 7 | Biogeography provides the most obvious area in which the significance of human activity should be particularly demanding of study and there have been two particular themes , albeit increasingly related , which have proceeded in this direction . |
| 8 | I 'm simply dying of thirst . |
| 9 | The conservation measures put forward by the British and Belgian colonial authorities were highly demanding of labour and moreover symbolised the logic of expropriation and more general exploitation by the colonial powers . |
| 10 | If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's obviously complaining of pain or discomfort , ’ Lindsey commented . |
| 12 | He 's just recovering of course . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's just dying of embarrassment . ’ |
| 14 | And er William The college of William and Mary is still going of course . |
| 15 | Her husband Peter seen here last Christmas , is now dying of throat cancer . |
| 16 | There is no apportioning of blame . ’ |
| 17 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 18 | The Saturday Benediction was slowly dying of indifference . |
| 19 | Christian accompanied him once to Ireland to watch a new filly run , took one look through the field-glasses , announced he was already dying of boredom , and departed to look at paintings . |
| 20 | Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the |
| 21 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |