Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I sha n't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine , either . |
| 2 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 3 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 4 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 5 | As his hand came to her arm she lashed out at him and he caught her close to save himself the trouble of subduing her in any other way . |
| 6 | The advantage of using them in this situation is their low cost and the speed with which the wall can be built up . |
| 7 | Surely you no longer suspect me of using you in some devious plan to make Lotta jealous ? ’ |
| 8 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 9 | There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text . |
| 10 | The challenges facing it were daunting : a considerable proportion of the UN was opposed to its existence ; the predominant political forces in south Korea regarded it simply as providing a veneer of international respectability for the creation of a south Korean state ; north Korea had no intention of helping it in any way and the United States believed the commission should complete its task swiftly and without asking awkward questions . |
| 11 | It was kept clean by the simple method of scrubbing it with fine sand — a commodity in no short supply during Richard 's desert campaigns ! |
| 12 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 13 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 14 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen , Dan , Kate 's sick of seeing you on that settee . |
| 16 | Sometimes , indeed , we identify with another instead of seeing ourselves as independent autonomous subjects , we identify with Lady Diana , our headmistress or somebody at work . |
| 17 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 18 | I toyed with the idea of reminding you of all my triumphs , of my prediction of the ‘ 87 stock market crash , of my warnings about the ERM and the dangers of Europe , about … |
| 19 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 20 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 21 | Other people may be frightened by your blunt arrogance , but do n't make the mistake of including me in that category … |
| 22 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 23 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 24 | NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures . |
| 25 | Even if you ca n't afford organic produce the benefits of eating plenty of ordinary fresh fruit , vegetables and cereals far outweigh any risks from the chemical residues . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 27 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 28 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 29 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |