Example sentences of "of [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transactional desktop element allows networked personal computers running MS-DOS or Windows to run the client portions of Open/OLTP downloaded from the server . |
| 2 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 3 | A waft of singing sounded from the church , like a great collective musical groan , with an overtone of keening — the final psalm . |
| 4 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 5 | He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth . |
| 6 | Having worked in racing stables for a number of years , I went to India with every prospect of enjoying racing despite the absence of luxuries like The Sporting Life . |
| 7 | The degree of supercoiling imposed on the viral genome in vivo is not known , but our experiments show that a moderate superhelical density can exert an stabilizing effect on the open complexes formed at the P A2b and P A3 promoters , which should be important in facilitating the transition into elongation complexes . |
| 8 | And the process by which the contextualizing is carried out would itself invite interrogation and theorization ; Marxists committed to ‘ cultural materialism ’ would be impatient of a form of contextualizing founded in the history of ideas . |
| 9 | An electrically heated wire is cooled by the flow , the rate of cooling depending on the velocity . |
| 10 | Already the trade showed signs of becoming restricted to the immediate neighbourhood of Reading , whose clothiers seem to have controlled most of the output of Berkshire . |
| 11 | Bailey and Harrison ( 1984 ) followed up the research of Cohen ( 1975 ) , which had reported that percentage cloze scores seemed to represent different levels of understanding according to the nature of the subject . |
| 12 | Many a player who had been highly thought of has disappeared from the tennis scene . |
| 13 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 14 | And if the only relevant criticism of the practical experience of law is that of life then we can clearly identify the limitations of seeking to evaluate through the prism of science . |
| 15 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 16 | No reform could of itself guarantee immediate and lasting prosperity for individual farmers , nor would the pattern of landholding established by the reform necessarily last . |
| 17 | COUNCILS have been accused of refusing to come to the rescue of hard-pressed small firms struggling to meet their Uniform Business Rate demands . |
| 18 | From about AD500 the Christian Church introduced a practice of dating according to the nearest religious festival . |
| 19 | erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City |
| 20 | In the West Indies the incident of wanting to go to the airport , and the fact that he turned up late for matches a number of times , had gained him a reputation for lack of discipline . |
| 21 | Quite often when a pair have shown all the signs of wanting to breed in the community aquarium and they are then moved into a breeding tank , they suddenly seem to go off the idea , Their new home is strange to them , and the male will want to establish his territory , move the decor , and generally prepare the tank to his satisfaction . |
| 22 | Colleagues need to convey a sense of wanting to learn from the worker 's experience ( as against simple curiosity ) , and to be secure enough to explore the full range of factors which may have contributed to the outcome . |
| 23 | Typically , these governments talk on the one hand of establishing socialism , and on the other of wanting to work within the constraints of a democratic constitution . |
| 24 | This is the simplest form of heading to achieve without the use of a tape . |
| 25 | The strategy of deciding to concentrate on the Hotel and Leisure Markets has proved to be successful . |
| 26 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 27 | Certainly , during this period it is common to find English teachers expressing a sense of the futility , or at least extreme difficulty , of attempting to influence in the direction of submission to great works of literature , students socialized into a culture of " affluence " . |
| 28 | It was they whose immediate vision was one of attempting to escape from the grind of poverty , and whose children were confined to the lowest levels of education offered in the elementary schools and the secondary , or ‘ post-Hadow ’ , schools . |
| 29 | The thought of going to live in the West Indies was exciting , Madeleine thought . |
| 30 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |