Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short the level of cooperation between banks and their more important customers is much more extensive in Japan , thus mitigating the problems of depending on external loans . |
| 2 | Our behaviour plan can then be built around the ‘ bits ’ instead of depending on vague intentions . |
| 3 | The oil price and supply uncertainties of the 1970s and more recently in 1991 triggered awareness of the problems of depending on imported energy supplies . |
| 4 | Intense personal involvement is another outcome of depending on local knowledge ; and that also carries costs , as we have shown . |
| 5 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 6 | Now suppose we have a supersaturated solution of some substance , like hypo in that it was eager to crystallize out of solution , and like carbon in that it was capable of crystallizing in either of two ways . |
| 7 | If this does n't work , the spadefoot has a second line of defence ; it has a disagreeable odour and taste — the New Mexico spadefoot has the curious distinction of smelling like unroasted peanuts . |
| 8 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 9 | I got me a surefire , old-fashioned American way of dealin' with all them Bruce Lee fanatics . |
| 10 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 11 | It brought a new level of handling to front-wheel drive that 's never been equalled . |
| 12 | That 's because of overspending in previous years . |
| 13 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 14 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 15 | I guessed it was the shock of Froggy 's death , and the tension of caddying for one of his contracted professionals . |
| 16 | And that included the experience of caddying for some of the greats when they came to St Andrews , such as Henry Cotton and Flory Van Donck . |
| 17 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 18 | There are different styles of singing in different regions , and we balance the programme to include different songs from different regions . |
| 19 | This project will monitor the development of contracting between three Age Concern Groups and both their local Social Service Department and Health Authorities over a period of three years , with special attention to the effects of the new ‘ contracting culture ’ on |
| 20 | Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order . |
| 21 | And it 's no coincidence that England captain Stuart Pearce and full-back partner Lee Dixon , showed signs of recovering from personal slumps with Gascoigne in the team . |
| 22 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 23 | The grass has been destroyed by the effects of trawling in shallow water and the dumping of waste by the chemical plants at Gabes and Skhira . |
| 24 | ‘ A good teacher of drawing with great style and panache . |
| 25 | His magnum opus , the Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300–1450 , an ongoing project which already consists of twelve weighty volumes , began publication in 1968 with a survey of drawing in southern and central Italy ; there followed three volumes on Venice 1300–1400 ( 1980 ) ; a monographic study of Mariano Taccola ( circa 1381–1453/58 ) , the Sienese draughtsman , miniaturist and engineer ( 1982 ) ; and four volumes on Jacopo Bellini ( 1990 ) . |
| 26 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 27 | However , few of the boards that we observed appeared to have arrived at the stage of reflecting on some of this learning in training sessions , which might , in turn , help them discover ways to become more effective . |
| 28 | To teach , to take the initiative , to impose what shall be attended to , puts the student in the position of reacting to external pressure . |
| 29 | The system comprises dampers capable of reacting to three separate settings , which are installed together with air springs which work in parallel with the main wheel springs . |
| 30 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |