Example sentences of "[coord] of [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these local conditions leaves traces in the development of television form : hence the difficulty of establishing general rules , or of defining a universal television , or even of predicating a classical standard . |
| 2 | But IBM rules out the possibility of taking a majority share or of buying the entire company . ’ |
| 3 | Carriers are expected to be the first users of the interface since it will significantly reduce the cost of building a new Frame Relay network or of extending an existing Frame Relay network . |
| 4 | One could view the introduction of noise into strategies as forcing agents to play a particular form of mixed strategy or of imposing a particular sort of tremble , which is , of course , undesirable . |
| 5 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 6 | Such an approach is not at all for the sake of establishing some banal historical continuity , or of demonstrating a universal homogeneity of narrative ; rather it allows precise tracings of specific historical shifts and distinct orderings of narrative and the novelistic , generic responses to historical , technological and social re-orderings . |
| 7 | Beware of carrying a subtle ploy too far today or of letting a loved one get away with playing emotional games . |
| 8 | the effect of adding white to a solid colour or of screening a solid area . |
| 9 | This alternative view claims that individuals can only develop their characteristically human capacities within society and that ‘ living in society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality … or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term , or of becoming a fully responsible , autonomous being ’ . |
| 10 | You will probably not succeed in being word-perfect , and there is danger in reciting a memorised speech either of appearing unnatural or of forgetting a complete section or even coming to a dead halt . |
| 11 | Voting is not just a matter of knowing how to put a cross on a piece of paper , nor of having a rough or even quite refined view of the policies of the major political parties . |
| 12 | RIGHT The use of Electronic Distance Measurement ( EDM ) is a very accurate method of undertaking surveys and of establishing the precise location of finds on an excavation . |
| 13 | While the entire network of popular committees , local institutions and the general public constitute the field commanders in the battle of civilian disobedience and of constructing a political infrastructure , a rotating Unified National Command acts in the role of field-general , issuing a bi-monthly directive outlining policy and determining specific resistance programmes . |
| 14 | It has the advantages of being very precise and of reflecting the social reality of the operation of the administration of law and order . |
| 15 | In other Cabinet changes the former Interior Minister Chedi Neffati took over the Justice portfolio from Mustapha Bouaziz , who became Minister of State Domains , a new ministry with the responsibility of overseeing public properties and of monitoring the public sector . |
| 16 | The widely respected dissident Doina Cornea , who resigned from the Front in January [ see p. 37190 ] , accused its leaders of insincerity and of lacking the moral authority to regenerate the country . |
| 17 | Even as other abolitionists refused that logic they were unable to find any means of reasserting the vitality of the emancipation cause and of recovering an integrated antislavery culture such that loyalty to their identity as abolitionists took precedence over religious and political differences . |
| 18 | He reiterated the necessity of remaining in Okinawa and of developing a permanent garrison there . |
| 19 | They have the problem of learning the basic skills of teaching , of keeping order , of creating varied and interesting lessons , of the kind of language that is suitable to different ages and levels of achievement , of pacing and of developing the vital intuitive sense of how much you can get done in forty or seventy minutes . |
| 20 | If they respectfully withdraw from involvement in village affairs they find themselves branded as ‘ stand-offish ’ or ‘ jumped-up ’ ; if they participate fully in the life of the village they are accused of ‘ taking over ’ and of telling the local inhabitants how to run their own community . |
| 21 | For the analyst , as well as the hearer , conversational implicatures must be treated as inherently indeterminate since they derive from a supposition that the speaker has the intention of conveying meaning and of obeying the Cooperative Principle . |
| 22 | In brief , then , the EMS was set the twin objectives of reducing the volatility of intra-EC exchange rates and of effecting a permanent reduction in member countries ' inflation rates . |
| 23 | They offered no alternative strategies , but all believed that encouraging children to enjoy good books freely was the soundest way of holding on to readers and of creating a new generation of them . |
| 24 | Though the current talk is about establishing multinational units and of creating a European rapid-deployment force that could be sent off at short notice to cope with unexpected contingencies , Europe 's armies have too many of the wrong sorts of forces , doing the wrong jobs . |
| 25 | However , the costs of building and of providing the necessary infrastructure together with planning restrictions meant that it was less than ideal . |
| 26 | The results of the [ 1922 ] General Election have brought forcibly before us the primary importance both of securing the votes of women electors and of getting a large number of women to take part in an electoral campaign . |
| 27 | There have been some good examples of team working , radical ideas and of getting the right people involved to make changes happen . |
| 28 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 29 | Copyright , which under the Copyright Act 1956 extends to every original literary , dramatic , musical , and artistic work , including photographs , sculpture , and architecture , means the sole right of producing or reproducing the work in any material form , and of performing , or in the case of a lecture , delivering , it in public ; it includes the sole right of translation and of converting a dramatic into a non-dramatic work , and vice versa , and of making gramophone records , movie films , and similar devices for the mechanical performance of the work . |
| 30 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |