Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 2 | Instead of struggling to fill a sale each year , it might be better to skip a year , or two , if necessary . |
| 3 | Even when the sons were carrying out all the farm labour , the father would continue to control all their tasks and all money matters , to the extent of walking to collect a son 's wages for work off the farm . |
| 4 | He bent towards her again , saying now , ‘ Have you ever thought of applying to join a NAAFI concert party ? |
| 5 | If you have had problems finding an agent , you might consider the possibility of applying to join a co-operative where actors work together and run their own agency . |
| 6 | Little research has studied adults who got to the stage of applying to do a course but who then did not enrol for it . |
| 7 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
| 8 | On Oct. 7 three of the movement 's leaders , including the secretary-general , Abdelfatah Mourou , were briefly detained for issuing a communique accusing the Education Minister , Mohamed Charfi , of having belittled Islamic values and of seeking to reintroduce a policy of secularization . |
| 9 | On Dec. 2 police arrested a Sikh catering officer , Balwinder Singh Nigah , on charges of seeking to plant a bomb aboard an Air India flight bound for London on Dec. 1 . |
| 10 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 11 | Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship . |
| 12 | As it happens , the most convincing way of pretending to clean a window is to actually do so . |
| 13 | A charge of refusing to give a breath test was dismissed . |
| 14 | Make 2 slits in pastry at each end of filling to form a flap . |
| 15 | Under the pretext of wanting to return a pen which Cara Kingsdale had left behind when she 'd arrived to interview me , and which might have sentimental value , I rang Verity magazine . ’ |
| 16 | The Human Factors specialist can rightly be accused of wanting to have a finger in every pie because , as he sees it , behavioural considerations do affect every design decision . |
| 17 | The study focused on the potentially collaborative act of deciding to transfer a patient from the ICU to an area of less intense care , and took place in a 17 bed ICU in a large American university hospital . |
| 18 | A SCHOOLBOY was yesterday cleared of attempting to rape a policewoman and indecently assaulting her . |
| 19 | JOBLESS Frank Mason was cleared last night of attempting to kill a man in a street . |
| 20 | On June 22 a Berlin court acquitted four former East German border guards accused of attempting to kill a man who had been shot and wounded when trying to escape over the Berlin Wall in 1971 . |
| 21 | THE doctor convicted of attempting to murder a patient is to return to his old job . |
| 22 | A teenager accused of attempting to murder a police inspector has been cleared on the orders of a judge . |
| 23 | Dissatisfaction with this highly indirect method of attempting to secure a modus must have been considerable . |
| 24 | Bryant is also accused of attempting to rob a post office at Brockworth near Gloucester in April last year , in which a postman was shot . |
| 25 | Oh did I tell you she was thinking of going to do a chiropody certificate . |
| 26 | How she wished now that she had obeyed her mother and taken Donald straight back home instead of staying to play a game ! |
| 27 | The Strategy Committee has therefore embarked upon a detailed review of the plan , looking at the effects on the profession , of the proposed changes in legal aid , the cost of default , and the importance to both the Society and practitioners of continuing to provide a quality service . |
| 28 | Some find that they do slow down somewhat , and this is no bad thing — after all , what is the point of continuing to play a game of ‘ Beat the Clock ’ from morning till night ? |
| 29 | They reflected the emergence of aspects due to the prolonged looking demanded by the method and revealed that ‘ growing up ’ to a painting , mentioned earlier , in which the discovery of more and more forms part of the process of coming to know a work . |
| 30 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |