Example sentences of "of the [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their involvement with parts of the Stop The Clause campaign , their support for AIDS-related benefits , their meetings with the Metropolitan Police , their re-vitalization of the financially flagging London Lesbian and Gay Centre , all testify to some commitment to the community . |
| 2 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , inclusion of the frequently occurring item and , which shows high frequency deletion , skews the data considerably ; for this reason , Labov excluded and from his original study of final stop deletion ( Labov 1980 : xvi ) . |
| 4 | Olivia , who likes her sleep , soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds . |
| 5 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 6 | One of the longest serving managers at Sunderland 's Cherry Knowle Hospital , George Wilkinson , retires today , after 40 years service . |
| 7 | Thomas William Stott , who became ill and died at Davenham CC 's AGM in November 1991 at the age of 74 , was one of the longest serving cricket administrators in the country . |
| 8 | This remarkable service makes him one of the longest serving employees and something to be proud of . |
| 9 | Three years after publisher Robert Maxwell sacked twenty one journalists from the Pergamon Press company , it 's been announced tonight that they 're to be paid thousands of pounds in compensation.The deal brings to an end one of the longest runing disputes in British trade union history . |
| 10 | The ultimate sanction of oppositional nationalism is to claim legitimation for its own armed force against the armed force of the allegedly containing state . |
| 11 | ‘ United are one of the best counter-attacking sides in the country . |
| 12 | The Cork area still boasts some of the best rallying country in Ireland and I understand this year 's route includes many of the classic stages from the region . |
| 13 | Not only are they one of the best campaigning organisations around , keeping the welfare of British birds well up on the conservation agenda , their quarterly magazine is full of interesting information on different species as well as tips on the best places to go . |
| 14 | Japan provides one of the best working examples . |
| 15 | All the research shows that one of the best coping strategies is to let emotions out , and one of the worst is not to do that . |
| 16 | Many of the best racing clippers were therefore composite built . |
| 17 | On form the little centre is one of the best attacking players in the country , and with captain Tiaan Strauss they could spark a revival down Newlands way . |
| 18 | Bebeto and Romario could be one of the best attacking combinations next summer and , with most of the team based in Europe , Brazil will have no problems acclimatising . |
| 19 | The other score — of damage to sons , property and livestock — was never calculated , but the injuries sustained were not considered excessive , and everyone agreed that it was one of the best hurling matches they 'd seen in several years . |
| 20 | In addition to the NOE-derived distance restraints , 108 hydrogen bonds were included in the final structure calculations based on the identification of the slowly exchanging amide protons from a series of 1 H/ 15 N correlation spectra of the CsA/ [ U- 15 N ] CyP complex in 2 H 2 O and by visual inspection of preliminary structures of the complex derived solely from the NOE data . |
| 21 | The rudimentary organs have not even yet been formed at this stage and the implications support the existence of a guiding field of electromagnetic energy as a responsible agent for the organisation of the cells of the newly forming embryo via the DNA . |
| 22 | The technological upgrading of manufacturing and services in many of the Newly Industrializing Countries for which the TNCs are responsible is one example . |
| 23 | Firstly , the dynamism of the newly industrialising areas provided a net rather than an entire gain to manufacturing output , for historians have increasingly come to recognise that it was in part linked to a measure of " de-industrialisation " in the South and East . |
| 24 | While other drivers equipped with four-wheel traction , including early leader Kenny Colbert and John Gilleece , who led the championship going into the Carlow event , skated off the road , Greer kept the Manta under control and ahead of the fast recovering Nolan to win by 15 seconds . |
| 25 | He came through as she was slamming the food on to the low coffee-table in front of the obediently blazing fire . |
| 26 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 27 | In this he described how , by splitting a parallelepiped of calcite spar along its shorter diagonal , and then cementing the halves together with Canada balsam ( having a refractive index intermediate between those of the doubly refracting calcite spar ) , he was able to separate the two emergent beams so widely that they could be used independently . |
| 28 | This is a small holiday park which has the advantage of being quiet and secluded whilst all the facilities of the almost adjoining Ilfracombe Holiday Village are available free to residents . |
| 29 | However , given simply worded questions on computation , and time to complete their working , most of the lowest attaining pupils had no more difficulty with written than with orally presented questions . |
| 30 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |