Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're tired of typing all the time , you may be relieved to know that the keyboard could soon be a thing of the past , thanks to rapid developments in the world of pen based computing . |
| 2 | That the members of the department consider the value of using all the resources of the department , when , where and if necessary , for example , use of slides with groups lower down the school . |
| 3 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 4 | This has had the effect of including all the profits and net assets of the company in the group accounts , with appropriate adjustments for the minority interest . |
| 5 | If it 's okay with you , I 'd rather we wait till the moon goes in again , an ’ take a chance on crossin' from here … instead of goin' all the way round there in the trees , I mean . |
| 6 | Mrs Hewer was explaining the Professor 's eminently instructive practice of labelling all the plants not only with their full names and varieties but also with the date of planting . |
| 7 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 8 | Like any other band on the verge of defying all the odds by releasing their finest music to date , just when the public least expected it , they were joyously arrogant . |
| 9 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 10 | Their claim was all the more pointed for it was made in the City of London , in the heart of the constituency of Peter Brooke — replaced last night as Northern Ireland Secretary — who has led , with consummate patience , the process of bringing all the Ulster politicians to the same conference table for the first time in 16 years . |
| 11 | The motor is of professional quality , and was quite capable of tackling all the materials we tried it on , from thick kitchen worktop to metal pipes and plastic sheeting , provided the correct blades were used . |
| 12 | This talk of laughing all the way to the bank reminds me of a delightful line from Shakespeare : |
| 13 | This conception of law as thesis is therefore a product of constructivist rationalism : it is born of the belief that law is the result of human design ; that order in society is founded on the conception of law as taxis ; and that the political authority is capable of acquiring all the knowledge it needs in order to exercise its absolutist powers wisely . |
| 14 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 15 | The necessity of representing both the time contained in an event ( event time ) and the time containing the event ( universe time , its temporal support ) has long been recognized , at least implicitly , in the distinction between aspect and time-sphere . |
| 16 | It is n't very long Should n't be in there long just a matter of signing all the things , checking all the details over , putting in what he has n't filled in already . |
| 17 | The organisation has the dual role of protecting both the rainforests and the interests of 47 nations involved in the timber trade . |
| 18 | The survey will be begun to be made , as soon as 500 copies are subscribed for , and it is eagerly requested that such as wish to become subscribers , will be as early as possible in signifying their names , that the proposer may embrace the opportunity of surveying all the streets this summer , which can not be conveniently done after 7 o'clock in the morning , on account of the interruption of carriage . |
| 19 | When confronted with the difficult problem of explaining this the diffusionist will try to establish the movement 's place of origin . |
| 20 | said of driving all the way back round to collect them , he said I could walk down to the Jolly Farmers |
| 21 | PageMaker has a very clever habit of remembering all the changes that have been made to a document so that they can either be Undone or Reverted to . |
| 22 | ‘ You wo n't have to for long , ’ Nora assured her , and she went on to explain her idea of hunting all the way home . |
| 23 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 24 | I 've seen most of the programmes and for Mastermind it was just a question of re-reading all the Dr Who books again . ’ |
| 25 | The summer tradition of recapping all the year 's exhibitions ends on the last day of the month at the Zabriskie , while Marie-Jo Lafontaine continues at the Montaigne gallery until the 18th . |
| 26 | The Council 's newly formed Planning Department , staffed by relative newcomers to public administration , was extremely zealous in the application of the regulations in their strictest sense as a means of establishing both the importance of the planning function and the place of the department within the hierarchy of the Kirkwall administration . |
| 27 | The Earl of Pembroke was accused of displacing all the attorneys at the Council in the Marches and forcing them to buy back their offices from him . |
| 28 | If , however , the requirements are not well defined or the system design is not capable of meeting all the requirements , then much unnecessary fire , smoke and water damage may occur through the system failing to control the fire quickly . |
| 29 | The cost of replacing all the pipework that poses a danger of lead contamination has been put at £1,000 million by the WRC and a committee apparently advised the DoE that the cost could be £405-£2,000 million . |
| 30 | The end product is an award-winning security alarm system based on the innovative technology of fitting all the components of a video camera onto a microchip . |