Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |
| 2 | Citicorp 's boss , John Reed , is fascinated by ‘ business-process re-engineering ’ — as management gurus call the job of fundamentally redesigning the way a firm does what it does . |
| 3 | I think if we harbour any hopes of eventually overhauling the scum this is a game we have to win . |
| 4 | The accusation was made after Father Michael Creagh , 56 , was jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to three counts of indecently assaulting a pupil . |
| 5 | Eight of the paratroopers were found guilty of indecently assaulting the woman soldier . |
| 6 | At one point , when some pages Spilled out on the floor , he remarked , as if it were an integral part of his commentary , that ‘ some people ’ did not realize the importance of properly securing a typescript . |
| 7 | Now he must face the FA again , accused of verbally abusing a linesman following last week 's defeat by Arsenal . |
| 8 | The reunion was a great success and Keith and joint organiser Jeryl Whitelock , who is a lecturer in International Marketing at Salford have already been asked to organise the next one in five years time , when the graduates will mark the twentieth anniversary of successfully completing the degree . |
| 9 | But conversely ( as Mr. Utley did not feel able to dispute , although he did not formally concede the point ) a defendant who is legally aided at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , but who for any reason then ceases to be aided and incurs the full costs of successfully resisting an appeal to the House of Lords , is eligible to recover those costs from the board . |
| 10 | This poses insurmountable problems of effectively transporting the powder through such a system and therefore they are not likely to have application in the warehouses under consideration . |
| 11 | The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products . |
| 12 | It has emphasised its continued support for Green Belts , although much of the most controversial development is taking place in areas outside them , and appears to be responding to the fears of its backbenchers about the electoral disadvantages of apparently condoning the wholesale ‘ concreting over ’ of southern England . |
| 13 | As a result the function of second-level policy-making institutions such as Public Local Inquiries is seen in terms of merely affording an opportunity for those whose private individual rights and interests may be affected by a policy proposal , to make this known to those responsible for making the decision . |
| 14 | At the root of many of the dilemmas and contradictions is that while mothers gain a great deal materially from these benefits , they run the risk , at an ideological level , of merely con-firming the link between being a woman and necessarily , therefore , becoming a mother . |
| 15 | The striking point , however , is that instead of merely denying the charge , he had set out to vindicate himself by finding a scientific reason why the world could not be eternal . |
| 16 | By this means events are conceptualized and interpreted , and judgments are made in the interest of better anticipating the future . |
| 17 | Endoscopic removal should not be attempted as the risk of inadvertently puncturing a package is high . |
| 18 | But his revelations in The People that he was ‘ guilty ’ of inadvertently taking a food supplement drink which must have contained the drug Methandianone left even his advisers wondering on what grounds he could still appeal . |
| 19 | It now seemed very unlikely that Constable Rennie would be able to realise his dream of personally apprehending the madman ; he did n't know whether to feel frustrated or relieved . |
| 20 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 21 | Control of body roll is good , although we could n't see the advantage of manually selecting the sport setting when the suspension firms things up automatically at higher speeds . |
| 22 | Now , I believe that a Labour Government holds more promise of greatly improving the lot of people with HIV/AIDS . |
| 23 | Thus , although Pollen 's instruments were capable of greatly improving the gunnery of the Royal Navy , they were for the most part rejected because of political controversy , technical confusion , faulty tactical analysis , and financial considerations , and a much inferior and derivative system that had been put forward by Dreyer was adopted instead . |
| 24 | The remodelling of commissions of the peace , and the careful disposal of government offices , had the effect of greatly increasing the ability of the government-backed party to bring pressure to bear on electors to vote in their favour , whilst the mere fact that the Crown was making a clear statement as to where its own political sympathies lay was often by itself a powerful factor in swaying public opinion . |
| 25 | This has the effect of greatly increasing the strength of the withdrawal reflex in response to subsequence stimulation of the siphon alone . |
| 26 | Instead of gently deflecting the point , he conceded that removing private companies might be hard to do . |
| 27 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 28 | Opposition groups criticized the move as inadequate , and accused the regime of trying to control the debate on the issue by restricting access to the media , and of only feigning an interest in democracy . |
| 29 | And , now , crumbling in decay , over laden with a desolate burden of humanity , the houses had the look of queuing for a great knacker 's yard , of eagerly embracing the extinction of their former grandeur , of offering themselves to ruin with an abandonment almost luxurious . |
| 30 | He justified the ‘ legal regulation of the problem ’ as the only way of heading off the likelihood of spontaneous ‘ defensive actions of the enraged population ’ , and claimed the German government had been compelled ‘ by the idea of being able , through a once and for all secular solution , of perhaps creating a basis on which the German people might possibly be able to find a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people ’ . |