Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberalisation of ownership is seldom a matter of states retreating to a policy of indifference . |
| 2 | The schemes were considered by a team of experts working under a group of senior officials appointed by the two governments and , in addition , the British government appointed Land Use Consultants to investigate their environmental implications . |
| 3 | This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University . |
| 4 | Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level . |
| 5 | Local libraries and Citizen 's Advice Bureaux hold lists of solicitors practising in a locality and many firms now advertise in the Yellow Pages . |
| 6 | Whereas in discrimination learning the student learns to distinguish between events and objects on the basis of their differences , in concept learning she concentrates on the similarities of phenomena belonging to a class and makes a common response to them . |
| 7 | DETECTIVES are investigating the theft of £300,000 of gems belonging to a high-class madam from the home of actor David Niven 's son . |
| 8 | THE RUC are investigating allegations of drug dealing at a leading Belfast grammar school . |
| 9 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 10 | Coloured lanterns hanging from the trees ; a quartet of musicians playing from a boat on the lake , as well as a band for dancing … ’ |
| 11 | He had spent a couple of minutes chatting to a slightly wary Tom Cotter , the Station Master , before starting the two mile walk home to Ham . |
| 12 | Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall ; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches . |
| 13 | Scattered around the streets is a tiny army of scouts waiting for a battle , but you 'd never know . |
| 14 | I shall therefore take the liberty of treating her as a character , not utterly different in kind , though of course belonging to a very different social species , from Vic Wilcox . |
| 15 | Analysis of teachers ' responses will seek groupings of activities according to a common pattern of use . |
| 16 | Here the separation of domestic and foreign policy allows realists to avoid consideration of conflicts arising from a lack of compatibility between state and nation , that is a people identified with a territory seeking political self-determination . |
| 17 | Section 3 of the Act prevents exclusion of liability arising from a breach of contract where the injured party deals as a consumer , or on the other 's written standard terms of contract . |
| 18 | Hence comes the importance of teaching reading throughout a child 's school career and beyond . |
| 19 | Everything he said or wrote was calculated for posterity , in her view , he sounded like a sheaf of notes looking for a history book . |
| 20 | Head ( i ) above ( dealing with the meaning of income arising under a settlement ) is really divided into two limbs . |
| 21 | Figure 4 represents a two-dimensional model such as is afforded by two parallel rows of pennies lying on a table . |
| 22 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 24 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 25 | I remember the editor of ITN saying at a meeting in the 1960s that he sometimes wished he could precede every bulletin with : ‘ Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world went about their lives today without anything unusual happening to them . |
| 26 | And with the numbers of climbers increasing by a significant margin each year our relevance within the broader public sphere will also increase . |
| 27 | Gradually she became aware of waves falling on a shore close by , and the air was sweet to breathe , with a tingle like clearest light . |
| 28 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 29 | Commercial breaks were replaced with old clips of Aoun ranting from a balcony to adoring crowds , just like a Nuremberg rally . |
| 30 | Like all the best work by social anthropologists it has at its core the very detailed study of the network of relationships operating within a single very small-scale community . |