Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time the US Patent Office became interested in the possibility of using tropical plants to revive the agriculture of the southern states . |
| 2 | In the manufacturing sector , an employer 's ability to pursue a strategy of using temporary workers depends on the availability of a body of labour which , until a few years ago , scarcely existed . |
| 3 | These concern : the subject ; the issue of how critical resistance to dominant codes ever develops in the absence of an adequate conception of the subject ; and , perhaps most fundamentally , the traditional problem facing any philosophy seeking to reduce knowledge to interests tout court , of using rational argument to prove the limits on rationality . |
| 4 | Hence the higher transaction costs of using outside suppliers have to be balanced against the dangers of under-utilization before a final decision is made about the scale of internal expansion . |
| 5 | It is clear that although the long-term factors which favoured the professionalisation of British management and the acceptance of using outside consultants helped to prepare the ground for the spread of headhunting , the leading executive search firms themselves played a vital part in creating this new business out of nowhere . |
| 6 | The possibility of using endoscopic Doppler ultrasound to detect any large blood vessels lurking in the path of the proposed sphincterotomy has not yet been well evaluated . |
| 7 | On Dec. 10 Kibaki accused Moi of using violent methods to secure a KANU victory , alleging that candidates of the main opposition parties had been prevented by force from presenting their nominations . |
| 8 | Their plan is to hold the Western powers to ransom with the threat of using atomic bombs stolen during a NATO training mission — unless they receive £1million in diamonds . |
| 9 | The foundation course offered to around one hundred students by the Institute will aim to ‘ encourage experiment in order to find more sensitive and imaginative ways of using modern materials to create buildings which reflect a hierarchy of scale ’ according to the Prince , who delivered the inauguration speech on 30 January . |
| 10 | However , at present , the economics of using solar-produced electricity to produce hydrogen from water by electrolysis are poor . |
| 11 | But increasing despondency about the impracticality of using hired machines to carry out orders made her persevere , and the advice of friends and a local engineering firm convinced her it was worth bidding for . |
| 12 | ‘ You accuse me of underhand dealing , of using dubious methods to get what I want ? |
| 13 | Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS . |
| 14 | In this way , the trick of using two cores has performed the seemingly impossible task of isolating the tiny wanted signal from the comparatively huge unwanted one . |
| 15 | Either it 's argued that British life does n't show up well in front of a film camera , or that British filmmakers are n't capable of using that camera to probe behind the surface of things . |
| 16 | During the period of special measures , which had first been imposed in February 1989 [ see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ; for additional special measures imposed in January 1990 see p. 37173 ] , Serbian police and Serbian troops ( the latter first being put on active service on Feb. 20 — see p. 37255 ) had faced widespread accusations of using excessive force to quell the strikes and demonstrations . |
| 17 | RP is checking the possibility of using fast modems to link to the specialist gardens . |
| 18 | Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity , resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day . |
| 19 | The unacceptability of ( 29 ) , however , exists because the structure purports to assign very to the entity behind man , but the meaning of very demands assignment to the , and the notion of using predicative position to assign a property to a subordinate part of the subject phrase ( the definite article ) is altogether alien to English ( and probably to any other language ) . |
| 20 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 21 | The practice of holding exhibitions in private apartments in Paris is quite common ; that of using empty blocks destined for renovation or sale is less so . |
| 22 | In May a paper , Employment Policy , accepted the Keynesian economic argument of using public expenditure to avoid cyclical unemployment . |
| 23 | Discuss the disadvantages of using these figures to help determine the provision of old people 's facilities in your local community over the next 20 years . |
| 24 | Hence the private producers ' marginal cost curve for films reflects the market value to producers of using these resources to make meals instead , but it no longer reflects the opportunity cost or utility valuation of forgone meals to society . |
| 25 | MSC is the marginal social cost of using these resources to make films rather than meals . |
| 26 | The story of foreign geniuses at work in California was a strange and sad one ; great men were fascinated by the excitement and power of a city devoted to movies , whilst the studios were attracted by the notion of using these aliens to make profitable and prestigious films . |
| 27 | This use of probability information is susceptible to the problems of using statistical information outlined earlier and described by Sayre . |
| 28 | I started with the idea of using forged rounds taking the scale of the rounds from the scale of the columns . |
| 29 | Two years later David Main was given a 9-month suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of using forged papers to sell Joan 's house . |
| 30 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |