Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 2 | Groups are said to work because the group members can now react to each other instead of just reacting to management . |
| 3 | This would be a great help , instead of just relying at present on judging conformation in the hope of reducing strain on tendons . |
| 4 | BRIGHT economic schemes have a habit of not working in South America . |
| 5 | It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school . |
| 6 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 7 | He could think of two of his fellow students who might be suitable but they too had degree courses to finish and Adam was beginning to think very seriously of not returning to college . |
| 8 | ‘ Evening Landlord , Master Gates , ’ he spoke in a loud voice and exercised his usual habit of momentarily standing on tip toes as he addressed them . |
| 9 | Always assuming the unlikelihood of ever getting on disc a pluperfect realisation of Bartók 's Second Violin Concerto , this new release from the prodigiously-gifted Anne-Sophie Mutter will come close enough for most people . |
| 10 | He then telephoned Ken Berry , to begin the task of urgently calling in money from abroad . |
| 11 | John Hemmings , aged 54 , was found guilty by magistrates at Dartford , Kent , of illegally possessing for sale 22,902 eggs . |
| 12 | They could n't understand the practice of mainly worshipping in silence and without a minister , or without the trappings of church rituals . |
| 13 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 14 | But instead of simply struggling in embarrassment they can turn to their advisers and ask for help : " What do I say now ? " , |
| 15 | A final difficulty associated with attempts to formulate a sentencing tariff arises from the coexistence of other sentencing aims alongside that of simply punishing in proportion to the offender 's ‘ just deserts ’ . |
| 16 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 17 | FOR a supposed corpse , America 's junk-bond market has developed an unnerving habit of sporadically twitching into life . |
| 18 | But the days of aimlessly wandering on enemy beaches were over and specific targets could be raided despite their defences : targets the scientists and planners calculated as most likely to influence the war . |
| 19 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 20 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |