Example sentences of "[coord] of [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of us travel those kinds of journeys vicariously , slumped in a winter armchair reading accounts of Himalayan kingdoms reached only by months of walking , or of chucking in the job , mortgaging the house and sailing to the spice islands with oriental pirates . |
| 2 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 3 | The student is given the opportunity either of broadening his areas of study so that he learns some of the principles and methods of several disciplines or of concentrating on the narrower range in order to become a specialist after suitable experience , training or further study . |
| 4 | This is the secret behind many of the stories about animals sensing the presence of man and other creatures , or of rushing to the help of an injured person discovered by means outside the scope of their more obvious perceptive processes . |
| 5 | Old centres of woollen manufacture and of mining in the South-west had no such effect . |
| 6 | He also denies a further charge of conspiring to the unauthorised modification of computers and of conspiring to the unauthorised access of computer material . |
| 7 | The tragedy of these kinds of development is that the opportunity may be lost of creating an integrated community , and of benefiting from the social advantages that can accrue from good design ( Masser and Stroud 1965 ) . |
| 8 | The early prevalence of such opinions probably illuminates the intensity with which St John 's Gospel ( chapters 3 , 6 , and 15 ) stresses the necessity of being reborn ‘ of water and the Spirit ’ and of participating in the bread of heaven and the true vine . |
| 9 | Christianity was a matter of churchgoing , of soldiering on and trying to do one 's best , and of believing in the existence of God and the historical life and death of Jesus ( even if his deity and his resurrection were not to be taken too seriously ) . |
| 10 | The parties are later sent by post either a summary decision or a full written decision as soon as it has been typed up and signed by the chairman , which is accompanied by information about applying for a review of the decision and of appealing to the Employment Appeal Tribunal . |
| 11 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 12 | The encouragement to Bible study in Dei Verbum ( 23–5 ) speaks in turn of scholarly work , of the training and spiritual formation of the clergy , and of reading by the laity . |
| 13 | Their function is simply that of dealing with the business aspects of terrace life and of negotiating with the outside world . |
| 14 | Turning the attack back on Doyle was a way of defending her — and of putting off the moment when he had to answer the question himself . |
| 15 | The stimulus of individual and group recovery and of working in the professional field of addictive disease and recovery is that each new discovery brings not only its own understanding and rewards but also the promise of more . |