Example sentences of "of [verb] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether more of a Second Empire kind of guzzle than a Roman treat , that invention . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 4 | Referees seem incapable of deciding whether a fast , controlled snap punch to the face has scored or not , and they generally disallow them . |
| 5 | Three examples will illustrate the importance of deciding whether a particular activity ought to be regulated by public law or private law . |
| 6 | We have also seen that there is no mechanical way of deciding whether a function is a public one or not . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc . |
| 10 | This discrepancy arises from the ever present difficulty of deciding whether a particular cell could be either a lymphocyte or part of a macrophage , neutrophil , or fibroblast . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | For the purpose of asking whether a given set of people may be enslaved , or deprived of their property , or denied access to the law courts , or the like , decency is best served by remembering that these are beings as conscious and valuable as ourselves , sharing our vulnerabilities and sensibilities . |
| 13 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 14 | What makes the issue of the legitimacy of our constitutional arrangements so problematic is the general open ended-ness of those arrangements ; that is , the difficulty of knowing whether a practice or non-practice is or is not constitutional . |
| 15 | As for communication , there is no way of knowing whether a cab radio would have made any difference in this accident , but I agree with my hon. Friend that it is desirable that cab radios should be fitted into locomotives and multiple unit fleets . |
| 16 | Most of the respondents answered this question in a similar manner ; it is perhaps disturbing that most companies feel they would have no way of knowing if a headhunter had abused their trust . |
| 17 | Secondly , the council may balk at the costs of determining whether a treatment is scientifically valid . |
| 18 | Another illustration of the importance for procedural rights of determining whether a dispute exists , and of identifying the parties to it , is Namibia . |
| 19 | A slightly more oblique approach to the problem of determining whether a contextually unique item is a semantic constituent is to see whether it is normal in the language to treat it in parallel with unquestionable semantic constituents . |
| 20 | Lacey had been appointed by Attorney General Barr in October [ see p. 39136 ] with the specific brief of determining whether a fuller investigation was warranted . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |
| 22 | There is no foolproof way of determining if a Turkish knot has been used , but a fair indication can be obtained by looking at the back of the rug . |
| 23 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 24 | One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs . |
| 25 | A simple method of telling whether a jufti knot has been used is to compare the horizontal knot-county to the number of warps . |
| 26 | We have no way of telling whether a simple Menuetto marking by Haydn or anyone else indicates that a movement is to go slow , fast or somewhere in between . |
| 27 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
| 28 | The first is the difficulty of stipulating when a sound-change is completed ( this is amply demonstrated by the history of ( h ) , above ) , and hence the difficulty of saying precisely what is meant by ‘ sound-change ’ . |