Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the twelfth century , the house of Alsace could afford the high costs of their expeditions — Thierry went to Jerusalem four times , Philip twice — and the counts ' repeated absences in fact promoted administrative reform ; the baillis and the Grote Bref were as much the products of crusading as the English and Norman judicial system and exchequers were the product of the king-duke 's divided attentions . |
| 2 | It can be important for the purposes of seeing whether the settlor is liable for tax which is not paid by the trustees ( IHTA 1984 , s201 ) . |
| 3 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 4 | Norwegian freedom fighters had discovered the existence of the base ; but had no way of ascertaining whether the Dane was a collaborator or a forced worker . |
| 5 | This approach , he maintains , is different from other aspects of nursing when the nurse uses knowledge and expertise to advise and educate . |
| 6 | It is a period in the history of cooking when the addition of truffles would make a poached mouse or a fricassee of donkey 's ears acceptable to those rich and great ones who flock to eat the creations of this famous chef . |
| 7 | There is a period of growing , and a period of resting before the hair falls out and a new hair grows in its place . |
| 8 | So make a point of checking if the aid is on or off before talking to someone who wears an aid , and speak slowly and clearly , with your face clearly visible . |
| 9 | We preferred to evaluate overall clearance of the oesophagus rather than the specific effects of swallowing because the amplitude of contractions after swallowing in patients with abnormal peristalsis is below the minimum effective strength for clearance . |
| 10 | Using this procedure , the problem of establishing whether the pin fits in a hole in a block can be resolved . |
| 11 | The program must have some way of establishing when a transput operation is complete , so that a further operation can be initiated or ( in the input case ) so that the input character can be processed . |
| 12 | Thus instead of writing If the Seller shall have given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , and the Buyer shall fail to collect them within seven days from service of such notice , the Seller shall be entitled to make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage the drafter could write If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days , the Seller may make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 13 | Produce a sustained piece of writing when the task demands it . |
| 14 | There 's no way of testing whether the strip of card which holds the cracker 's ‘ bang ’ is easy to grasp ; no indication if the whole cracker is easy to break , or tough as last year 's turkey ; and no clues as to whether the cracker makes a loud , emphatic noise . |
| 15 | Nothing in sex will concern me except the pure physical pleasure ; I shall be incapable of love , of Don Juan 's pride of conquest , even of caring whether the woman is pleased or bored with my company . |
| 16 | First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc . |
| 17 | We have also seen that there is no mechanical way of deciding whether a function is a public one or not . |
| 18 | The problems of deciding whether a pupil has mastered a concept or skill are discussed in relation to an experiment in giving pupils the same tests in different modes but similar in content and difficulty on two separate occasions . |
| 19 | Humans are not very sensitive to the acidity or alkalinity of liquids , but they are perfectly capable of deciding whether a piece of red paper has turned blue , or vice versa . |
| 20 | Workers face the signal extraction problem of deciding whether the increase in real wages is transitory or lasting . |
| 21 | In such instances , interpretation of test data becomes a matter of deciding whether the test product or pack is better than , equal to or inferior to the control . |
| 22 | Pilots should be encouraged to make an assessment during the final turn of how much airbrake they will need as they start to straighten up for the final approach , instead of waiting until the turn is completed at which point it is already too late . |
| 23 | The American firms , with their network of sales and support services , are locked into the old way of selling while the Japanese , who are used to marketing their goods through high street retailers , are at an advantage . |
| 24 | This is , of course , best achieved by word of mouth and is why the role of selling as the communication medium is so potentially important for PR to be successful . |
| 25 | Trollope reaches the point of wondering whether a plumber could go to heaven , before sweet reason intervenes : ‘ we do not see why he should be debarred if cabinet ministers be allowed to enter . ’ |
| 26 | It 's not a particularly quick job but the results are very worthwhile , especially if you do a lot of flying when the sun is low on the horizon . |
| 27 | The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters . |
| 28 | First , they were a rational answer to the unplanned metropolis of the inter-war period ; we had long since passed the time of asking whether the State should build houses , now it was a question of determining precisely where the nation should locate its dwelling stock . |
| 29 | Maxim thought of asking if the bomber 's crew had bailed out , but decided it might be tactless . |
| 30 | In a dramatic gesture , Diana pulled out of attending after the split was announced . |