Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 2 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 3 | She listened to his advice and bought instead a Welsh pony with the vague idea of attaching it to a trap and doing the shopping in it . |
| 4 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 5 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 6 | of handling them through the , through the assessment and statementing process and it has implications in terms of finding the resources to support those children once the statements of provision are , are drawn up . |
| 7 | If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture . |
| 8 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 9 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 10 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
| 11 | Although there are problems in directly transferring Belbin 's analysis into educational institutions there does appear to be the basis of using it as a means of managing the issues identified at the start of this section . |
| 12 | Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again . |
| 13 | The possibility of using it as a bypass to the village was discussed with the Ministry of Defence in 1985 . |
| 14 | The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned . |
| 15 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 16 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 17 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 18 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 19 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 20 | Once this idea is accepted in principle , it remains to ask at what stage a grasp of the mutual dependence between social theory and social science might be capable of helping us with the problem of holism . |
| 21 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 22 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
| 23 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 24 | The Museum also has two General Electric 1–16 engines ( one reportedly restored to operational status ) and , at one time , was exploring the possibility of remounting them in the aircraft in order to make some taxi runs . |
| 25 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 26 | you 'd think he would of listed 'em in a list would n't ya ? |
| 27 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 28 | But when you have a community centre like street that is which a joint you can see the value of of of maintaining it as a a paid for as a a a erm and be substantial volunteer input that exists . |
| 29 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 30 | She felt delightfully relaxed and slightly unreal , and her mouth seemed incapable of shaping anything but a broad smile . |