Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] the [noun] " 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 | His action only had the effect of helping to throw the Moravians too into the arms of Byzantine Christianity . |
| 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 | Put it this way , you 're probably at more risk of dying crossing the road . |
| 9 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 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 | There certainly seems to be a lot of climbing to reach the iron bar at 60ft . |
| 14 | Both Griffon and Lappet-faced Vultures are strong , heavy-billed birds , capable of tearing open the hides of dead animals with ease . |
| 15 | She has a strong auditory memory and knows enough about patterns of spelling to recognise the effects of the e-marker . |
| 16 | The latter must be careful to avoid giving an impression of revelling in the trappings of power , and they must beware of appearing to threaten the prerogatives of other political actors such as the Supreme Court or the Congress . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 21 | A solicitor 's clerk has appeared in court with five others accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The defendants , two men and a woman , are accused of conspiring to supply the drug LSD . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Hatton and Mr Monk had denied the two charges of conspiring to defraud the council . |
| 29 | The news came four days after Derek Hatton , the 45-year-old former Labour deputy leader of Liverpool city council , was cleared of charges of conspiring to defraud the council over two car park sites in the city . |
| 30 | Last month a jury at Oban Sheriff Court found Iain Swan Ferguson , 50 , of 2e Scalpay Terrace , James Smillie , 34 , of 28e McCaig Road , both Oban , and Frederick Vennard , 45 , of 11 Lorn Road , Dunbeg , guilty of conspiring to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Company by setting fire to Ferguson 's partly-built bungalow at Taynuilt . |