Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them had taken the slightest notice of my movements , except that Mr Parsons was already in my empty chair , and the two of them , with Ewen Mackay 's flask of whisky now standing between them , were talking about salmon fishing . |
| 2 | But can you imagine your average suddenly-made-redundant collector of taxes happily spending the rest of his or her working life scraping the scraps off the dinner plates of the overfed rich ? |
| 3 | We get turned and cant pass back to Lukic unless its VERY safe , and even then he kicks it straight out of play so relieving the pressure on the opposition AND putting pressure on us . |
| 4 | In a statement on 14 May 1980 the DRA Government asserted that it was necessary ‘ in the process of a political settlement [ around Afghanistan ] to take into account the military-political activity in the region of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the part of states not belonging to this region ’ . |
| 5 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 6 | I was horrified to find a notice at the bottom of Ben More stating No Dogs Allowed . |
| 7 | Said a spokesman : ‘ There is a positive wind of change now blowing through the club . ’ |
| 8 | HL lists consist of three highly positive followed by three highly negative adjectives ; LH lists consist of three highly negative followed by three highly positive qualities ; GD lists consist of adjectives gradually descending from highly positive to highly negative traits ; and in GA lists the order of adjectives is reversed ; R lists are random in terms of the adjective evaluation . |
| 9 | The upward trend in the market as a whole indicates the arrival both of products effectively exploiting the utilities of electronic media and a growing acceptance and appreciation among information users of the value of these utilities . |
| 10 | Several champagne houses , finding the confines of Champagne too restricting , have invested in sparkling wine production in California , New Zealand and Australia . |
| 11 | Oswald Parry , a tall , strong , blonde Welshman , with a lock of hair perpetually curling across his wide forehead , came to Crystal Palace from Wimbledon in the summer of 1931 . |
| 12 | He was sleeping with one arm encircling his head , small podge of fingers just touching his cheek . |
| 13 | Information on the credit terms and methods of payment currently applying to particular business sectors in the foreign market . |
| 14 | They again rejected any possibility of DEC ever going to SVR4 ( ’ no requests for it , ’ they said ) , maintaining that OSF 's future compliance with SVR4 would suffice and calling OSF/1 the long-awaited Unix rewrite . |
| 15 | We are of necessity constantly breaking the rules and thereby committing sin , but some kinds of offence are more disturbing than others . |
| 16 | KEERSPLOSH ! — into the water , right on top of a line of mallards peacefully cruising along the canal . |
| 17 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 18 | When one calculates , for example , the beginning of the universe , using the methods you described , surely you 're making great assumptions about the laws of physics not having changed ? |
| 19 | Here and there one may find a row of houses all having the same supply , but very often two adjacent houses are supplied differently . |
| 20 | But of course simply having refrigerators which can hold food at between 0 and +5 degrees C is n't enough . |
| 21 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
| 22 | I am of course not speaking of those from the interior it is necessary to be more guarded with them particularly those of the Namoi and Juden ( ? ) parts , which I am now about to visit . |
| 23 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 24 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 25 | The bit which of course basically going eight per cent . |
| 26 | The local residents were of course only exercising their rights under the 1870 Education Act , which allowed the establishment of School Boards . |
| 27 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 28 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 29 | The aircraft took-off at 1537 hours piloted from the left hand seat ; on becoming airborne , at a position a little over halfway down the runway , the crew saw a flock of birds ahead flying just above the ground . |
| 30 | Some other records between November and February may refer to wintering rather than wandering birds , but otherwise all reports were of birds apparently passing through . |