Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's recent decision to allow industrial tribunals to hear claims relating to breach of the employment contract may , however , bring this trend to a halt . |
| 2 | To be sure , we have all moved on since films directed by Hitchcock were unravelled in the search for strands of ‘ Catholic guilt ’ , but equally I still teach gay students who find it genuinely empowering to learn of the homosexuality of a cultural figure as one contributing factor to the work that he/she produced . |
| 3 | Today 's chefs are looking to state of the art equipment for convenience , reliability and consistency of cooking . |
| 4 | But Dufferin , now married to his cousin , Lindy Guinness , was beginning to tire of the avant-garde , and in 1972 , when the lease ran out , the gallery closed , with a stylish party at The Savoy . |
| 5 | But as the romance , continued to drag on , there were signs the story was wearing thin , especially for Jason , who was beginning to tire of the facade . |
| 6 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 8 | ‘ My morning thing is not really about getting ready for the day , but getting rid of the night . |
| 9 | And I think this , you know , to have a classless society all these things have to be covered , not just the rich and poor , oh and getting rid of the monarchy . |
| 10 | But getting rid of the TV and keeping the bedroom for sex could be the best cure of all . |
| 11 | If such problems do occur it will be necessary to reduce the fish numbers , getting rid of the excess to friends or neighbours who have a pond , or , if you can make the necessary arrangements , to a local aquatic shop . |
| 12 | We 're just in the process of getting rid of the poll tax . |
| 13 | Yes , population controls , that 's right , that 's one , I mean , one reason , one way of getting rid of the migration is to , is to , is to limit population growth . |
| 14 | There was a notion that that would mean conservatism , getting rid of the minority programmes . |
| 15 | With you just getting rid of the flu , hardly |
| 16 | Another process is sometimes adopted for getting rid of the sediment without the trouble of decanting in this mode ; the bottles are reserved in a frame proper for the purpose , for a certain number of days , so as to permit the foulness to fall into the neck ; while in this position , the cork is dexterously withdrawn and that portion of the wine that is foul , allowed to escape , after which the bottle is filled with clear wine , permanently corked and secured with wire . |
| 17 | First , every king when he came of age had remarkably little difficulty in getting rid of the faction which had been dominant during the minority ; Albany Stewarts , Livingstones , Boyds , Douglases , the families who had enjoyed power in the minorities of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries , all lost it when the king began his personal rule . |
| 18 | ‘ Getting rid of the pain is one thing , ’ said Alec . |
| 19 | Had it merely been a quick try at getting rid of the intruder ? |
| 20 | In March 1859 , they commissioned a report from their Clerk on " getting rid of the Burthen of the School " . |
| 21 | She was thinking of getting rid of the lift attendants anyway . |
| 22 | It might be possible to get rid of some of these problems without getting rid of the pleasure , even if it is not possible to get rid of the addictions . |
| 23 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 24 | Piano is planning to transform the surroundings of the Centre , and to improve the Forum area by getting rid of the grid-pattern ceiling and other obstacles which block out the light . |
| 25 | But the people in the firing line say that getting rid of the county council wo n't serve the people , and would be inefficient . |
| 26 | He seems to like getting rid of the crowd pleasers , look at his history Cantona last year , Vinny a few years back , John Sheridan before that and now Batty . |
| 27 | It is moving to think of the Spirit of God being involved in the continuous and on-going process of creation . |
| 28 | I was beginning to think of the bordello . |
| 29 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 30 | Having heard of the firm of Boulton & Watt and their new engine , he decided to travel to Birmingham and try to get a job with the firm at their Soho Manufactory . |