Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top left : Elizabeth Jane ( left ) with daughter Tessanna , at the front door , which has a special piece of duckboarding to protect the house if the Thames should flood |
| 2 | In any case I do n't intend to discuss the visual arts as an example of non-verbal communication and I only introduce the topic of drawing to illustrate the extent to which antagonism to language has infiltrated itself into at least one important department of educational theory . |
| 3 | The Prosecutor-General had accused the defendants not only of helping to organize the advance of some $4,000 million of US loans to Iraq , in contravention of US sanctions , between 1987 and 1990 , but also of fraud , money laundering and conspiracy . |
| 4 | The government of China denounced the project and on April 29 Xinhua accused Taiwan of helping to fund the vessel , conduct which was described as an " open provocation " . |
| 5 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 6 | ‘ a management tool comprising a systematic , documented , periodic and objective evaluation of how well environmental organisation , management and equipment are performing with the aim of helping to safeguard the environment by : ( i ) facilitating management control of environmental practices ; and ( ii ) assessing compliance with company policies , which would include meeting regulatory requirements ’ . |
| 7 | We also have a pressing need for volunteers with experience of editing to share the editing of our newsletter , and we desperately need an affordable source of good quality printing . |
| 8 | Instead of struggling to fill a sale each year , it might be better to skip a year , or two , if necessary . |
| 9 | Put it this way , you 're probably at more risk of dying crossing the road . |
| 10 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 11 | Joe always makes time to play with his kids — he 's got to be both mother and father to them — in spite of having-to run the farm alone since your father died . |
| 12 | Instead of measuring distance as " number of genes that have to change in evolution " , we are going to measure distance as " odds of happening to jump the distance , by sheer luck , in a single hop " . |
| 13 | Even when the sons were carrying out all the farm labour , the father would continue to control all their tasks and all money matters , to the extent of walking to collect a son 's wages for work off the farm . |
| 14 | There certainly seems to be a lot of climbing to reach the iron bar at 60ft . |
| 15 | If you have had problems finding an agent , you might consider the possibility of applying to join a co-operative where actors work together and run their own agency . |
| 16 | Little research has studied adults who got to the stage of applying to do a course but who then did not enrol for it . |
| 17 | On trade , a memorandum of understanding to prevent the export of prisoner-made goods [ see also p. 38530 ] was agreed in principle . |
| 18 | The steady degradation of the Romanian standard of living to meet the burden of rapid debt repayment in the 1980s and the decision to remodel rural life according to a model abandoned by then even in the Soviet Union and China may have been primarily Nicolae Ceauşescu 's work . |
| 19 | The accused also deny charges of conspiring to cause an explosion , having the bomb with intent and possessing it in suspicious circumstances . |
| 20 | Mark Braley , the former Coopers & Lybrand trainee who attempted to sell confidential BCCI documents while on secondment to the Serious Fraud Office , has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 21 | They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 22 | A solicitor 's clerk has appeared in court with five others accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 23 | Two people are awaiting trial in connection with the attack , but 5 others , including Howard Banton , chief clerk for a firm of solicitors in the town , have appeared in court at Cheltenham , accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by plotting to persuade a witness to withdraw a statement . |
| 24 | Van driver Benjamin Laing , 24 , is charged with murder , while his brother Bernard , 20 , Sharon Thompson , 27 , and Mark Leslie , 21 , are all accused of conspiring to pervert the cause of justice . |
| 25 | In an earlier development connected to the Camarena case , Rafeedie had refused to acquit Ruben Zuno Arce of conspiring to plan the kidnapping and killing of the DEA agent . |
| 26 | Khin Nyunt , director of the Defence Services Intelligence and secretary of the SLORC , accused the Burmese Communist Party ( BCP ) of conspiring to destabilize the country and to seize power . |
| 27 | The defendants , two men and a woman , are accused of conspiring to supply the drug LSD . |
| 28 | The Blue Arrow prosecution was later to accuse the defendants of conspiring to rig the market — not alleging that the late take up was illegal , but that the purpose for which it was done was unlawful . |
| 29 | THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll . |
| 30 | Mr Hatton and Mr Monk had denied the two charges of conspiring to defraud the council . |