Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist parties inevitably lost credibility as a result of staunchly adhering to the Comintern line throughout the series of volte-face involved in the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 and the subsequent German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941 . |
| 2 | In 1625 , after a considerable search , he found what he wanted in the depopulated — indeed almost uninhabited — village of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire , about three miles from the Great North Road . |
| 3 | The prospect of eventually arriving at such a gruesomely underwhelming destination makes me determined to enjoy every moment on the train . |
| 4 | Rita has hopes of eventually studying to be a nurse . |
| 5 | Here , Mr. Christopher Lawrence-Price had kindly lent his charming first floor flat to Miss Deborah Bennett , to give a little party to celebrate the fifth year of successfully working on her own in marketing and public relations . |
| 6 | A Parliamentary and Local Government Advisory Committee was also set up with a brief to ‘ consider and recommend to the General Committee what , in their opinion , is necessary for the purpose of effectively carrying into effect the resolution passed at the Swansea Congress ’ . |
| 7 | He left the toffees on the table , not wanting to have to wait through five minutes of loud chewing between replies . |
| 8 | Andy ( Sharon 's twin brother ) and Keith ( who fancies Sandra ) jump on James ( who fancies himself ) to the accompaniment of loud cheering from everyone else . |
| 9 | Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident . |
| 10 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 11 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 12 | On the former Johnson wished for accuracy of representation , by which means the portrait painter also creates a piece of history ; on the latter he applauded developments in which historians had begun to consult and interpret factual record instead of merely culling from other histories . |
| 13 | When the carriage stopped at Langley Dene , the butler seemed more deferential as he opened the door and Mrs Langley , instead of merely rising from her chair , came half way across the drawing-room to welcome Alexandra . |
| 14 | The heroes of both these plays arrive upon the scene in a dramatic manner — adventurously entering through a window instead of prosaically walking in the door . |
| 15 | However well prepared teachers are , their lives are ones of constantly living on their wits . |
| 16 | Live and let live I say , but unless I want to be certain of constantly bumping into parties of rambling Rotarians , I think I will keep off these organised highways . |
| 17 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 18 | She is certainly very concerned with moral themes , but I do n't think that she 's moralistic in the sense of hectoringly preaching at erm at an audience to do such a and not to do other certain other kinds of things . |
| 19 | Anyone entering the shrine committed the insult of literally stepping on the head of the Roman emperor . |
| 20 | But if weather conditions are really severe , or bad enough to put you off , there is a way of literally getting around this ‘ obstacle ’ . |
| 21 | Although a few may take up to a week of daily feeding with the culprit food before they respond , this is probably fairly unusual . |
| 22 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 23 | The much-criticised policy of Harry Hyams , who built Oldham into one of the most profitable property companies , of only letting to tenants of ‘ undoubted ’ covenant has been fully vindicated . |
| 24 | Indeed her presence at Sarah 's 18th birthday party at Castle Rising was the source of much muttering among the Norfolk gentry . |
| 25 | This session is the cause of much joshing in the Right Said Fred camp , him saying how he 'd make sure he had a hot shower first and primed himself for action if he did it again , his partners enjoying wiggling their little fingers at any opportunity and ribbing him for his perceived shortcomings . |
| 26 | 7.7.9.1 to rebuild and reinstate at its own expense the Premises or the part destroyed or damaged to the reasonable satisfaction and under the supervision of the Surveyor the Tenant being allowed towards the expenses of so doing upon such rebuilding and reinstatement being completed the amount ( if any ) actually received in respect of such destruction or damage under any such insurance policy or |
| 27 | He was arraigned for heresy in 1457 , after publishing his The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy , ‘ A secular doctor of divinity , that had laboured many years to translate Holy Scripture into English , passing the bounds of divinity and of Christian belief . |
| 28 | The advantage of normally proceeding through the mediation of rules is enormous . |
| 29 | This meant the knife ; bones were broken : what about my prospects of finally climbing Minus One Direct ? |
| 30 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |