Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since preview audiences rated it both best and worst thing in the film — presumably depending on level of squeamishness — it obviously made an impression . |
| 2 | The ‘ Office of Innovation ’ ( OI ) transcends the interests of individual departments , thereby allowing for cross-fertilization of ideas among divisions . |
| 3 | We , we felt at the end of the seventies that there was no question that the eighties was going to be a decade of increasing food shortages , and widespread famine , that is , people literally dying for want of food . |
| 4 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 5 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 6 | He was president of St Bartholomew 's Hospital from 1572 to his death , comptroller-general of all the hospitals from 1581 , and MP for the City from 1572 to 1583 , naturally serving on House of Commons committees concerning London , trade , and industry . |
| 7 | The lease required a proportion of one-twelfth of " waste ore " to be made available at the end of every three years and made saleable — failure to do so resulting in forfeiture of all such material . |
| 8 | I was only asking for confirmation of what I expected . |
| 9 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 10 | Yeah but effectively the customers are only dealing with plastic of |
| 11 | Many urgent questions constantly arising concerning treatment of various nationals both members of armed forces and others … |
| 12 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 13 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 14 | So , before long , I was climbing into Frejji 's little shuttle , stumbling through the mess of tools and equipment , squeezing into a spare spacesuit , costume and all , and finally lurching through airlock of my ship . |
| 15 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 16 | Oh I 'm just looking at bottom of my bag there , there was , there was bills from Gateway , that was from last year . |
| 17 | This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three |
| 18 | Now we 're very tense , just waiting for news of Paula , ’ said Mr Hutchinson . |
| 19 | Creed and McGowan were already waiting in front of the elevator doors . |
| 20 | He came after me with his arms wide , still dazzled and dazzling in his private powerful light ; those pale jeans already crumbling for want of their accustomed humidity . |
| 21 | It 's interesting though , that after all this aggravation , the fact that er the Prime Minister nearly lost his job , er there was nearly another election erm there 's going to be no celebrations , no fireworks , no balloons , no huge dinners on Monday we 're just going to sort of peter into the Maastricht treaty coming into effect . |
| 22 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 23 | We are just asking for knowledge of the Minister 's attitude to a funding council . |
| 24 | I think , to come back to ‘ where does knowledge come from ? ’ , just how can you produce work that actually counters that weight of belief in the invincibility of people who are patently failing in front of your eyes ! |
| 25 | Bankers and others are already campaigning for relaxation of this law , to allow foreign investment in such Swiss companies . |
| 26 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 27 | Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the |
| 28 | The German 20th Corps was still slowly withdrawing in face of the Russian centre on 26 August , when , to prevent further retreat , Ludendorff ordered Francois 's 1st Corps to smash the Russian left wing . |
| 29 | The mutation Thr37 to Ala results in large reductions in affinity and repression efficiency , presumably owing to loss of cooperativity resulting from destabilization of the protein-protein contact between repressors . |
| 30 | The 1.6 per cent increase in CO2 is set against an increase of only 1 per cent in gross domestic product over the year , indicating that the economy became more polluting per unit of wealth created . |