Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the printing unions controlled the process ; their powers included the hiring of staff and deciding the level of manning in print rooms . |
| 2 | On 16 October , the judge rejected the submissions and on 17 October , the appellants , together with three co-accused , changed their pleas to guilty of handling in respect of each of the transactions in which they were involved . |
| 3 | The following provides an outline of handling in relation to specific claims intimated under various covers : |
| 4 | It may be held at that important time of the first anniversary of the death , and is thus at the time when the people most bereaved may be thinking of re-engaging in life . |
| 5 | They had distinct personalities : princesses forced to disguise themselves as scullery maids or kidnapped into slavery ; heroines who dressed up as boys and lived in camps full of men , performing feats of daring beyond description until discovered in bed or in the bath by the hero and proclaimed as beautiful . |
| 6 | Acknowledgement of the failure of targeting upon soil erosion as being the problem is long overdue . |
| 7 | Thanks to two drugs developed from natural alkaloids in a Madagascan plant , the Rosy Periwinkle , the chances of recovering from childhood leukaemia and several other cancers are now greatly increased . |
| 8 | However , Goram , Huistra and Steven at least have been given a chance of recovering in time . |
| 9 | Pinfield would be on hand to guide her as she learned the job of producing , and to recommend ways of realising on screen any technical requirements raised in the scripts . |
| 10 | Therefore , such a towed motor vehicle can be subject to offences of using without tax , insurance or in contravention of the Construction and Use Regulations . |
| 11 | Manne claims that ‘ not selling [ may ] … be the dominant method of using inside information . ’ |
| 12 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 13 | Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity . |
| 14 | Both species are also capable of overwintering on pasture as L3 . |
| 15 | Some readers will feel frustrated by the lack of detailed discussion of current issues such as the implications of care management for community teams for people with learning difficulties or the practicalities of disinvesting in day services and investing in supported employment . |
| 16 | This leaves the school in the weak position of reacting to opinion rather than acting as an opinion former . |
| 17 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 18 | Instead of tucking into turkey and all the trimmings , they ate freeze-dried chilli — washed down with whisky and port . |
| 19 | In planning its programme the Association emphasized its international objectives advertising , for example , from as early as 1924 , annual holidays at two centres in the USSR : a ‘ unique opportunity to experience the USSR 's great natural beauty , priceless and world famous works of art , gigantic collective farms and the thrill of seeing in progress the greatest social experiment in the world 's history . ’ |
| 20 | The Chianti had gone to my head a little but I was a big lad and had done my share of experimenting with alcohol before , so the intoxication was n't too hard for me to handle . |
| 21 | More 's the pity , then , that they are in danger of drowning in soap suds . |
| 22 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |
| 23 | The project , however , was in danger of foundering from lack of money until Luca Baroni of Colnaghi rallied to its assistance . |
| 24 | Of accepting without question . |
| 25 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 26 | Our point of departure in tracing the Modigliani and Miller exposition must be the observation that the value of a firm within a given class of business risk is given by the following equation , where V is the value of the firm , E(Y) is the expected future income in perpetuity , and ri is the weighted average cost of capital of the firm which may be defined , where r e and r b are the costs of equity and debt respectively , and where w e and w b are the weight of financing from equity and debt respectively . |
| 27 | President Fujimori has furthermore made two public speeches , in September and October , which were strongly critical of human rights organizations in Peru : he charged human rights defenders with being ‘ useful sops ’ and of collaborating with subversion . |
| 28 | The possibility offered by rapid electronic communication across networks has led to some other new ways of collaborating in science , through bulletin boards and other e-mail techniques , some of which are direct analogues of personal communication and others resemble publication pathways . |
| 29 | Moderately affected animals have frequent bouts of coughing at rest , tachypnoea ( >60 respirations per minute ) and hyperpnoea . |
| 30 | Ethologists have followed Darwin in their prime concern with the evolution of species and the various forms of physical and behavioural adaptation that they have developed in the process of competing for survival . |