Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 2 | Female visitors were cheap , a point in their favour which continued to be emphasised as late as 1920 , when the Local Government Board considered the possibility of using them to inspect the homes of widows drawing poor relief . |
| 3 | But the real question is , rather , whether there is any commonly accepted core of meaning among the various uses of the term which entitles us to say that this or that way of using it constitutes an abuse or misuse of it . |
| 4 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 5 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 6 | He suddenly thought of using it to play a joke on some of his friends at the Post , concealed it in his newspaper and left the pub . |
| 7 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 8 | For many patients , brief problem-orientated outpatient care seems to be a very satisfactory means of helping them tackle the difficulties . |
| 9 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 10 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 11 | You see , I 've no intention of helping you ruin a man I admire . ’ |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 13 | G.J. Warnock , a distinguished post-war philosopher , offers a strange analysis of seeing which allows no place for judgement nor even the capability of it , as was the case with our driver , and which would include both the dog and the infant . |
| 14 | There was a good crowd round the 11th attracted by the possibility of seeing someone win the Bentley . |
| 15 | Preparing potatoes at the sink with her back turned to the child can be a helpful way of encouraging her to ignore the child during eating . |
| 16 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 17 | This not only enables them easily to recheck particular information if they need to , but it also has the effect of encouraging them to consult a wider range of sources of information . |
| 18 | Although Reagan was a right-wing candidate , he was careful not to repeat the mistake of Goldwater in 1964 of allowing himself to appear an extremist . |
| 19 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
| 20 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 21 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 22 | ( Also , just because of the difficulty of proving who caused the damage , fire insurers generally find it easier to give the necessary consent to waiver of their subrogation rights , without which the arrangements could not work . ) |
| 23 | a method of binding which allows the insertion and removal of pages for continuous updating . |
| 24 | She accused me of instructing them to dig the wrong grave , which I did n't and I immediately defended myself and said : ‘ Mary , I did not . |
| 25 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 26 | It is not an accountancy measure but a way of enabling us to put a figure on all the opportunities we miss and all the things we foul up . |
| 27 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 28 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 29 | We have now turned almost full circle , but instead of employing someone to bait the swim , we have turned to a choice of mechanical devices which do a similar job . |
| 30 | Although it is not clear that subjective risk can be biased in this way theories of driving which stress a schematic or conceptual representation of the environment ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) might suggest that biases in the perception of the environment would indirectly lead to biases in subjective risk , either because risk is an important aspect of such schemata or because subjective risk would result from the inconsistency between the environment and pre-existing schemata . |