Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 2 | The benefits of contracting out at younger ages stem from the fact that the flat-rate rebate is based on an average of the costs of providing benefits for all age groups . |
| 3 | We saw in Chapter 6 that fixed-term contracts offer one , strictly limited , means of contracting out of statutory rights . |
| 4 | In marine manufacturing one has the sense of a kind of using up of existing facilities and skills without much new investment , although the Tyne does have R and D capacity in this sector . |
| 5 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 6 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 7 | The Government imposed a ceiling of 1.5 per cent in the public sector is showing little sign of filtering through to private companies , said the report . |
| 8 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 9 | She paints hearts in lots of different colours and says she has no intention of branching out into other organs of the body . |
| 10 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 11 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 12 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 13 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 14 | Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little , it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again . |
| 15 | This was not so much a service as a lot of clowning about to biblical themes . |
| 16 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 17 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 18 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 19 | The worst of it was , she could n't even afford to apologise , could n't take the risk of opening up to this dangerous man . |
| 20 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 21 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 22 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 23 | Time magazine was another way of keeping up with Western life . |
| 24 | You were sort of dallying about from one foot to the other . |
| 25 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |
| 26 | We will end the present Government 's policy of clawing back from local authorities amounts equivalent to those they receive from the European Community 's regional development fund . |
| 27 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 28 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 29 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 30 | I could not contemplate without alarm the idea of filling up with gloomy looking Buildings in the Gothic style , [ the ] whole of the space between Downing Street and Great George Street . |