Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , said the Government had ruled out any idea of helping to fund the ailing project . |
| 2 | The move is seen as a way of helping to get the Argentinian privatisation programme off the ground and to make some inroads into the country 's foreign debt , which currently totals some $60billion . |
| 3 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 4 | It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview . |
| 5 | Vyshinsky 's speech was clearly made for the dual purpose of endeavouring to depict the Soviet Union in a more conciliatory light in global terms and to try to gain a voice in the negotiations leading to a treaty . |
| 6 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 7 | The plaintiff now seems to have the option of applying to join the new defendant in the existing proceedings as happened in Liff v Peasley [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 623 or starting separate proceedings and relying on Thompson v Brown . |
| 8 | A jury yesterday found Hillier guilty of conspiring to cheat the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | However , Hatton still faces two charges of conspiring to defraud the local authority . |
| 10 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 11 | The Conservative government preferred to follow the Labour route of seeking to expand the 1948 Treaty of Brussels to incorporate Italy and West Germany . |
| 12 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |
| 13 | It is not only Catholic Christendom which has been guilty of seeking to domesticate the Holy Spirit in this way . |
| 14 | The utter incongruity of seeking to protect the natural world , both creatures and habitat , by threatening the well-being or life of one part of that natural world in the name of another is mind-boggling ; such violence is foolish , cowardly and morally indefensible . |
| 15 | Well , if there are n't any questions er , I would return to the resolutions , er , separately and I would propose the first one which is an ordinary resolution namely it 's resolution one , set out in the notice of meeting to increase the authorized share capital of the company . |
| 16 | It condemned the use of secret trials and accused the government of refusing to allow the free expression of opposition views . |
| 17 | Ignore the game and find some way of refusing to produce the complementary behaviour . |
| 18 | They showed signs of wanting to take the whole operation over , but Coffin , backed up by his Inspector , would have none of it . |
| 19 | There seemed no point , unless it was just a question of wanting to get the last word . |
| 20 | Pilger then got even more upset and accused him of wanting to produce the Daily Star . |
| 21 | Muwaffaq al-Allaf , head of the Syrian delegation , accused Rabin of attempting to destroy the whole peace process with his accusations . |
| 22 | I think that one 's saying that in order to resolve one problem , their may be unforeseen and , one hopes temporary , minor problems which emerge in consequence of attempting to resolve the first problem . |
| 23 | Ethologists concerned with the evolution of human behaviour have stopped short of attempting to explain the further reaches of the human mind ; consciousness , self-reference , the construction of identity , and intersubjective relating . |
| 24 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 25 | The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate . |
| 26 | There is the problem also of attempting to discern the cause-and-effect relationships among culture , history , and resources . |
| 27 | Next comes grandson William Gylby , wealthy London lawyer who made great strides , increasing the size of the island to over 1,500 acres by his death in 1744 , and having the dubious distinction of attempting to reduce the troublesome rat population by having them killed , dressed and offered up to his tenants and workmen to eat . |
| 28 | The method used will be mainly that of attempting to contrast the two versions in the same context . |
| 29 | Each evening the quayside would be crowded with holidaymakers who made a point of going to watch the long procession of over 100 boats , their lights twinkling as dusk began to fall , pass slowly and majestically down the harbour and out to sea . |
| 30 | In the course of getting to know the right conditions for plants to survive well , in addition to looking their best in the overall scheme of the garden , Tricia — internationally known as an interior designer — has naturally become something of a plantswoman . |