Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 2 | The trench will need to be around 500mm wide and 600 to 700mm deep — allowing for 100mm of bedding material |
| 3 | A communiqué issued on July 4 at the end of a five-day meeting of the central committee of the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) announced agreement on wide-ranging political reforms , specifically ( i ) broadening membership of the party ; ( ii ) abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state ; ( iii ) separating the functions of party and state ; ( iv ) ending the one-party system ; and ( v ) strengthening existing mechanisms allowing for freedom of expression , of the press , and of association . |
| 4 | That programme included the development of more accurate telescopes , together with auxiliary theories required for their use in astronomy such as those providing adequate means for allowing for refraction of light in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 5 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 6 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 7 | You 're speaking as a supporter whose team has suddenly came good after years of mediocrity , not one whose team is struggling after years of success . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fighting continues in many parts , and large numbers of people , especially children , are dying through lack of food and water . |
| 10 | The second is the peak experience of ecstasy , which is not a habitual state but rather rare at first , occurring between periods of calm and emptiness and dryness . |
| 11 | Although this activity has traditionally been based in the UK , Spain and Germany are now taking the plunge as , Bonelli said , an increasing number of companies and government departments are outsourcing as part of rationalisation or downsizing projects . |
| 12 | The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence . |
| 13 | Huddled together in the barns of the cortijo and fed on doles garlic soup when they were employed , half starved at home the slack seasons that are the concomitant of extensive monocultures , the Andalusian braceros were a primitive revolutionary class , unique in Europe , alternating between waves of exaltation and fatalistic ‘ Moorish ’ resignation to misery . |
| 14 | The club is pressing for recognition of decompression sickness as an NHS liability . |
| 15 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 16 | To allow matching for proximity of mother 's residence to a nuclear establishment at the time of her child 's birth a further series of controls was selected from locally held hospital delivery registers . |
| 17 | Solicitors will lose their monopoly on applying for grants of probate to deal with wills . |
| 18 | Solicitors will lose their monopoly on applying for grants of probate to deal with wills . |
| 19 | But now the club have found that on applying for renewal of permission to play at the same venue next season , the pitch has already been allocated . |
| 20 | Bankruptcy — Property passing to trustee — Joint tenants — Husband and wife joint tenants of property — Bankruptcy of husband — Wife dying after act of bankruptcy but before adjudication order — Whether joint tenancy severed before wife 's death — Bankruptcy Act 1914 ( 4 & 5 Geo. 5 , c. 59 ) , ss. 37 , 38(a) |
| 21 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 22 | During the course of the meal we 'd reduced the blighter to the proportions of a couple of pillows , not to mention disposing of portions of chicken kalija and fish pakora to start , followed by garlic chilli chicken , lamb pasanda , a single portion of pulao rice , and side dishes of Bombay potato and sag panir to accompany . |
| 23 | In the play , which was to tour Britain before running in London 's West End , Crawford was cast as Runnicles , a bank clerk given the task of disposing of piles of pornography that is delivered to the manager and his wife . |
| 24 | The most obvious effect is a frenzied rage alternating with periods of euphoria , excitement and irritability , often subsiding into passive withdrawal and indifference . |
| 25 | The general pattern of activity consisted of periods of quiescence alternating with periods of activity . |
| 26 | The normal colonic motility patterns described by Narducci et al consist of periods of motor quiescence irregularly alternating with periods of activity . |
| 27 | The new pediplanation approach springs from the work of W. Penck , Kirk Bryan and Jessen … ( p 643 ) the sequence of major cyclic denudation upon all the continents alternating with episodes of elevation and mountain building , together with the relations of both phases , through coastal plain and shelf deposits , with major events in the ocean basins , are not disturbed haphazardly through geologic time but are in broad temporal conformity one with another . |
| 28 | His last performance was another sell-out , ending with scenes of adulation normally reserved for pop stars . |
| 29 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 30 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |