Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The systems will initially include two CPUs and be capable of handling about 150 transactions per second , the paper said . |
| 2 | Their experience of programming and software engineering enables them to accept the need for discipline and good design , and to understand the problems of handling really large documents . |
| 3 | If the fear of encountering yet another Nirvana soundalike is too great , then try tuning into Walt Mink 's upbeat pop charge . |
| 4 | It has a well-defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them . |
| 5 | That they do not know what you seek as well as your intention of rooting out any trace of an ancient order . |
| 6 | With regard to Bancroft 's second point , our research was designed not only to quantify sexual practices but also to understand why people put themselves at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases , especially AIDS . |
| 7 | It has , however , come to represent the ‘ norm ’ in technical writing to such a degree that , even if a writer was not particularly interested in giving an impression of objectivity , s/he would find it difficult to break away from the convention of using predominantly passive structures in technical writing . |
| 8 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 9 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 10 | Equally you could follow the idea of a sample and knit each diamond in a different colour — a good way of using up those oddments ! |
| 11 | But she believed that the more a woman covered up , the more she was attractive to the opposite sex , while Bernard grasped the idea as a way of using up more fabric . |
| 12 | This is a very tasty way of using up any left-overs after a meal of roast lamb . |
| 13 | He made a brief , unsuccessful return , but his future was overseas : Lisbon first , and then San Sebastian , where the club 's policy of using only Basque players ( recently broken by the arrival of John Aldridge from Liverpool ) limited his use of the cheque book . |
| 14 | Prior to the collapse of the Geneva talks , forestry ministers from 37 European countries signed four " general guidelines " — on sustainable management of forests in Europe ; conservation of biodiversity ; help for central and eastern Europe , and strategies for adapting to climatic change — but rejected a target of using only sustainable timber by 2000 . |
| 15 | Previous experience of using visually stimulating material , encouragement to do so , interest in the task in hand , curiosity and enjoyment seem to play a part in the way that some pupils use even low levels of vision to help them to find out the things they are interested in . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , such findings illustrate the dangers of using apparently incontrovertible facts to develop an argument about the changing nature of public intervention in child care . |
| 17 | The Gulf states , including Iran , should be given the task of drawing up regional security arrangements without foreign interference , and the Gulf should be declared a zone free of foreign military presence . |
| 18 | Preparations also include two consultations for church leaders and communicators and for technicians which will take place in 1993 with the aim of drawing up clear guidelines for the agency . |
| 19 | It was the logical outcome of the tactics of drawing out opposing defenders originally outlined by Chapman at Northampton . |
| 20 | Often , however , it is clear that the commissioners took over an existing track between two villages and straightened it a little , without going to the extreme length of drawing entirely new roads . |
| 21 | The complexity of drawing together accurate personnel data in a dispersed organisation — some elements of which have autonomous powers — is a major deterrent to basing decisions on facts . |
| 22 | In large part this is a reflection of the underdeveloped state of industrial relations theory itself to whose improvement , by way of helping more general theory construction , well-designed comparative studies may be expected to contribute . |
| 23 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 24 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 25 | Here is a chance to see a variety of helicopters on the hangar floor , with the possibility of seeing how new helicopters arrive , are assembled and test-flown . |
| 26 | If the work of the SDPP is taken alongside that of another team on school management , the School Management Task Force ( DES 1990a ) , the benefit emerges of seeing how detailed proposals for management and review penetrate deep into the daily work of the school and how that detail can be set in the larger context of characteristics ( thirteen in number ) of effective schools ( DES 1990a : 5-6 ) , set against six management tasks which are regarded as having high priority following the 1988 Act . |
| 27 | Revellers pick grapes as way of seeing out old year |
| 28 | Going to my first feminist conference in the late seventies : the thrill of seeing so many women together , and , even more so , seeing so many lesbians openly showing their affections for each other . |
| 29 | However , Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , said the proposals for passing unforeseen costs on to consumers were well-known and accused Dr Cunningham of whipping up unjustified concern . |
| 30 | Because of the problem of accumulating too many tucks on any one needle , you are usually advised not to use the double-length switch . |