Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corrie looks terrifying from its base , and indeed I would hazard a guess that avalanches are pretty fond of rumbling down the upper reaches of it after spring snow . |
| 2 | The British , perhaps because they are jealous of the splendour at Versailles , are fond of recounting how the courtiers used to relieve themselves in the passageways . |
| 3 | The Government are fond of asking where the money is coming from , but they are supporting a project which , according to old estimates which will probably have to be updated , will cost £1.4 billion . |
| 4 | ‘ But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious . |
| 5 | Some people fight shy of taking out a Personal Loan because they are worried about meeting the monthly repayments if they are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment . |
| 6 | A man serving life for murdering a policeman has been found guilty of beating up a prison officer at a high security jail . |
| 7 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 8 | Archaeologists , anthropologists and psychologists are all guilty of shovelling up a multitude of references to the feminine and labelling the heap as the ‘ Great Mother ’ . |
| 9 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 10 | Paul went on his way in rising anger , fearful of bringing on a bad head by it . |
| 11 | Two mixes of ‘ House Of Usher ’ finish off the EP , and you 're left fearful of turning out the lights at night . |
| 12 | He was sick of living out the legend of the Tech-Green wunderkind , sick too of the work he was involved in and the knowledge that went with it . |
| 13 | Bishop Lacey — our first Bishop — was desirous of setting up a Guild to oversee the making of vestments and the provision of linen items for the altar . |
| 14 | I am sick and tired of picking up the mud |
| 15 | THE majority community is sick and tired of hearing how a nationalist area was saturated with the security forces who departed a short time before loyalist paramilitaries entered to commit murder . |
| 16 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 17 | The company has an existing OEM agreement with DEC , which offers AVS on its Ultrix systems — AVS is confident of pinning down an Alpha RISC port for its solution too . |
| 18 | Greene King could extend the deadline again … but at Morlanmd otnight they 're confident of fighting off the takeover |
| 19 | Now he is confident of shaking off a hamstring strain and extending his ever-present League record to 86 matches since his £1 million move from Leicester . |
| 20 | So , short of sending out an army of class warriors from Teesside , what are we to do with these socially unacceptable socialites ? |
| 21 | But he stopped short of setting up a ‘ shadow government ’ before the handover , a previously threatened step that would undermine the authority of the colonial government and denied China had any intention to seize the colony back before 1997 . |
| 22 | ‘ Short of putting out an all-persons ’ alert , which would include the police and the Press , there 's little else we can do . |
| 23 | ‘ Short of lifting up the bonnet . |
| 24 | The cable television industry is said to be leery of handing over a standard to a third party such as Microsoft Corp , which has teamed up with Intel Corp to develop a set-top control box based on the 80386 and Windows ; the 80386 is also regarded as underpowered for graphics work . |
| 25 | A pit of this sort is capable of catching up a ferret from either direction . |
| 26 | Though the differences were minute they were capable of calling forth the highest passions : great content if you did well , or jealousy and despair if you did badly . |
| 27 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 28 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 29 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 30 | Another advantage is that self development is capable of converting even the most boring situation into a learning opportunity . |