Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 2 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 3 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 4 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 5 | Even if you ca n't afford organic produce the benefits of eating plenty of ordinary fresh fruit , vegetables and cereals far outweigh any risks from the chemical residues . |
| 6 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 8 | But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself . |
| 9 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 10 | The cud is thoroughly masticated — the jaw can move from side to side as well as up and down — before it is finally passed into the digestive system where the job of extracting everything of nutritive value will be carried out . |
| 11 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 12 | Not having a copy of Class War : Britain 's Most Unruly Tabloid to hand , and doubtful of getting one at short notice , I ask if he has the telephone number . |
| 13 | His letters evince the excitement he felt at undertaking this journey , one which few Europeans had as yet made , and his anticipation of getting plenty of big game hunting on the way . |
| 14 | Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes . |
| 15 | We would never dream of beginning anything of this kind without gaining the views of local residents . |
| 16 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 17 | While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons . |
| 18 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 19 | Most local authorities do not recruit until the months immediately before the vacancy arises although some authorities are increasingly seeing the advantage of recruiting one to two years in advance . |
| 20 | I started playing about with it and later felt a real satisfaction of doing something with that girl 's head of hair that no-one had wanted to touch . |
| 21 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 22 | I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it … |
| 23 | ‘ Other accountants should n't dismiss the idea of doing something like this , ’ she adds . |
| 24 | ‘ They are both gentle and kind , and are not capable of doing something like this , let alone covering it up with such success . |
| 25 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 26 | Christine said thanks to sheer determination and hours of extra work Wesley was now capable of doing anything at all . |
| 27 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 28 | Now none of you would dream of doing anything like that . |
| 29 | They do not look white in virtue of having something in common ; they have something in common ( their whiteness ) in virtue of looking white . |
| 30 | There are plenty of people who have super-efficient secretaries , but the majority of us can only dream of having someone like that to put our working lives in order . |