Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 2 | Groups are said to work because the group members can now react to each other instead of just reacting to management . |
| 3 | This would be a great help , instead of just relying at present on judging conformation in the hope of reducing strain on tendons . |
| 4 | ‘ Evening Landlord , Master Gates , ’ he spoke in a loud voice and exercised his usual habit of momentarily standing on tip toes as he addressed them . |
| 5 | Always assuming the unlikelihood of ever getting on disc a pluperfect realisation of Bartók 's Second Violin Concerto , this new release from the prodigiously-gifted Anne-Sophie Mutter will come close enough for most people . |
| 6 | He then telephoned Ken Berry , to begin the task of urgently calling in money from abroad . |
| 7 | John Hemmings , aged 54 , was found guilty by magistrates at Dartford , Kent , of illegally possessing for sale 22,902 eggs . |
| 8 | They could n't understand the practice of mainly worshipping in silence and without a minister , or without the trappings of church rituals . |
| 9 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 10 | But instead of simply struggling in embarrassment they can turn to their advisers and ask for help : " What do I say now ? " , |
| 11 | A final difficulty associated with attempts to formulate a sentencing tariff arises from the coexistence of other sentencing aims alongside that of simply punishing in proportion to the offender 's ‘ just deserts ’ . |
| 12 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 13 | FOR a supposed corpse , America 's junk-bond market has developed an unnerving habit of sporadically twitching into life . |
| 14 | But the days of aimlessly wandering on enemy beaches were over and specific targets could be raided despite their defences : targets the scientists and planners calculated as most likely to influence the war . |
| 15 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 16 | Students could be given the opportunity of actively searching for information about some topic in which they are interested . |