Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ;
2 To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture .
3 If a student has a habit of over-ruddering in turns , it is often worth showing him the effect on the stall of using even a slight amount of extra rudder in a gentle turn .
4 Cutting these sections is a skilled job , requiring the services of a technician in a specially-equipped workshop , so there can be no question of using even the most portable of microscopes to study rocks in the field .
5 There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia .
6 The effect of using both the LPF and GFF was also investigated using the equations :
7 Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about .
8 In longer pieces composers often use varied keys , so as to have a more chromatic language at their disposal and to avoid the stagnation of using only a limited selection of notes .
9 Sir Adrian seems unhappy with the idea of drawing up a vast catalogue of top management attributes and is more inclined to the view that being a good senior executive is something gleaned from hard experience .
10 In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ .
11 Royal Ascot race week loomed and she was in the process of drawing up a guest list for the traditional house party at Windsor Castle .
12 That report says : ’ We do not recommend a requirement to indicate animal rearing methods on foods labels we therefore recommend that the possibility of drawing up a standard system , which clearly defines terms to indicate welfare-orientated rearing methods , should be considered ’ .
13 He criticized " irrational nationalistic blindness " , and in a scarcely veiled attack on the introduction of multiparty systems in Slovenia and Croatia he complained that the process of drawing up a new federal constitution and a legal framework for democratization was being jeopardized by " autonomous attempts " at constitutional reform .
14 ANC leaders suggested that equal status be given to all participants in the process of drawing up a new constitution .
15 The NLA , which held its first session on March 29 , came under attack from various politicians who claimed that its members were unqualified for the task of drawing up a new constitution .
16 The workshop began the process of drawing up a charter which would be put forward to the June Chesterfield Conference ( again , any positive work here is being channel led back into the system ) The Reproductive Rights Workshop focussed on the issue of abortion , and individual women 's experiences , and very little surfaced on how these so called ’ rights ’ affect working class women , there was even a suggestion of wages for housework for women !
17 Among topics discussed was the possibility of drawing up a joint European Community initiative between HCIMA and the Dublin based Irish Hotel and Catering Institute .
18 Those in charge of drawing up a blueprint for health-care reform talk of slapping mandatory controls on all drug prices .
19 While all members unanimously agreed the body should not be wound up , a small team has been given the task of drawing up a programme of action which will satisfy the Lib Dems ' requirements .
20 It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required .
21 Who knows how many quarrels , false accusations , unnecessary dismissals , how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler 's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan ?
22 The job of drawing up the artwork is made considerably easier by using a light-box , especially when dealing with more complex designs involving integrated circuits .
23 ‘ We are in the process of drawing up the seedings and groupings of the various qualifying rounds , ’ said tournament director Brian Skirrow .
24 Guinness Mahon , in conjunction with solicitors Jacques and Lewis , had the responsibility of drawing up the document , a complicated matter strewn with legal pitfalls .
25 It seems likely , therefore , that in the process of drawing up the Feoda , as clerks and local lords decided under which heading most fief-holders should appear , they helped to crystallize the castellanies .
26 In Ashdown School , a school for young disabled people from 3 to 19 years old , the idea that the students could have a greater say in the decision-making within the school has been a topic for discussion for some time , particularly as part of drawing up the school development plan and of the staff development programme .
27 For we can be rightly proud of one of Eglantine Jebb 's major achievements five years later that of drawing up the original first ever charter on the rights of the child and persuading the then league of nations to adopt it .
28 As we argued throughout the proceedings of the European parliamentary elections bill , the Conservatives are entirely responsible for the fact that this process of drawing up the new European boundaries had to be compressed into such a short time .
29 The task of drawing out the main points from the mass of data takes considerable practice and is time consuming .
30 She discovered that this was often because of the problem of drawing out the block shapes which , to many , was a real obstacle .
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