Example sentences of "[v-ing] of [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
| 2 | Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods . |
| 3 | Killing of " infiltrators " from Jordan — Stabbing of Israelis in West Jerusalem |
| 4 | Excellent progress was made in disposing of properties in Arizona when the market was considerably more bullish . |
| 5 | Easing of blockade in Kurdistan |
| 6 | , rustling of papers in background and whispering ) |
| 7 | At one time both were seen as sustaining of democracy in Britain . |
| 8 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 9 | 1 For much of the period since the Second World War , mainstream political science praised parties and interest groups as enhancing of democracy in Britain and talked in terms of responsible party government and pluralist democratic theory . |
| 10 | Baldly expressed , those who subscribe to that theory see it as important to explain the process of public policy-making since that is regarded as the essential stuff of British politics itself ; they see interest groups as of central and determining influence in that process ; and they see the group process as enhancing of democracy in Britain . |
| 11 | The other sister was er in High Wycombe , and the other one was in er Well she was in Creith for a number of years , And then she moved south because she was n't musical and there was no chance of getting of headmistresship in Scotland if you had n't got music . |
| 12 | Now it seems we are back to normal , with catchy weather frustrating attempts to get on where crops are fit , and further kicking of heels in prospect once the winter barleys have been cleared . |
| 13 | There may well be a greater stress on family commitments and we reviewed some of the evidence on sharing of tasks in section 6.4 . |
| 14 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 15 | Divine service is legally a public performance , and the singing and playing of music in church constitute a ‘ qualifying performance ’ . |
| 16 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 17 | In Chapter Three I illustrated this characteristic de-differentiation in conceiving of postmodernity in terms of the notion of ‘ desire ’ . |