Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | DHAs will be freed from the responsibility for operational management to enable them to concentrate on achieving the optimum improvement in the health of the population they serve . |
| 2 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 3 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 4 | I begin by welcoming the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) to the House . |
| 5 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Stockton , North ( Mr. Cook ) on becoming a grandfather again . |
| 6 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Gateshea East ( Ms. Quin ) on being successful in the ballot , on introducing such an important subject for debate and on doing it so well . |
| 7 | And with bright , almost gaudy colour schemes including bright blue and really bright red , the £12,500 Wrangler is certainly an eye-catcher , I confirmed after leaving the off-road track for a spin around Renfrewshire . |
| 8 | I graduated to doing the mixed grills . |
| 9 | I started by using the fine point of cool grey 01 . |
| 10 | I started by highlighting the important role SCFE played in assisting the implementation of Action Plan , SHACE will play an equally important role developing the Higher National Units to the agreed competencies . |
| 11 | And now I felt like doing the same . |
| 12 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 13 | I insisted on taking the two till four in the morning watch , as I had read somewhere that this is the time when one is at one 's lowest ebb , and therefore when death is most likely to occur . |
| 14 | The first thing I learned in running the Grand Canyon are The Rules . |
| 15 | I come after finishing the domestic chores at home which is not far off . |
| 16 | So I went into the studio and , as it turned out , I ended up doing the whole album . |
| 17 | Sphinx Tours claims that it has lost revenue as a result of the campaign mounted by the Malta Ornithological Society , which succeeded in persuading the Egyptian government to place restrictions on the shooting of small birds . |
| 18 | Not all projects will be suitable for BOT treatment , which depends on satisfying the private sector that the project is economically viable with available technologies and practices . |
| 19 | Some of these theories concern a rather narrow aspect of the use of the mental lexicon ; others are broad in scope , and attempt to say at least something about all the linguistic activities which depend upon using the mental lexicon . |
| 20 | He believes that the way ahead lies in the establishment of an international food policy which concentrates on obtaining the very maximum from crops . |
| 21 | This monograph is based on a lengthy case study of a privately owned residential ‘ Sixth Form College ’ , Wentwood Education , which specializes in developing the personal and social competence of young ‘ severely mentally handicapped adult people ’ ( sic ) to tackle ‘ normal life situations ’ . |
| 22 | Another approach to democratising the federal state of Europe would be one which relied upon strengthening the European Parliament . |
| 23 | So , like so many in Irish rugby , he welcomes the arrival of the Irish Exiles project which aims at enrolling the large number of those with Irish qualifications who live in England , Scotland and Wales , and up to year or so ago were almost totally ignored in Ireland . |
| 24 | The people and Government of Mexico take pride in supporting what came to be known as ‘ The Declaration Of Stockholm , ’ a key component of which called for declaring the 5th June World Environment Day . |
| 25 | Several attempts have been made , however , to breathe new life into the traditional model which relies on structuring the internal organization of the company appropriately to ensure that controls are exercised over corporate managers . |
| 26 | Data which go toward answering the first two of these questions derive from a number of sources . |
| 27 | The main point which emerges from considering the historical evidence is that there certainly has been change in the amount and type of support offered , but that this can not be seen simply as a decline from a high to a low point . |
| 28 | A pedagogy which aimed at teaching the functional potential of grammar along the lines I have described , would have to get learners to engage in problem-solving tasks which required a gradual elaboration of grammar to service an increasing precision in the identification of relevant features of context . |
| 29 | The animals failed to draw blood but , two weeks later , she was still so worried about getting her fingers bitten that she admitted to finding the whole business of pushing letters through a letter box as nerve-wracking , in its own way , as trying to hole a four footer . |
| 30 | This was shortly after Indonesia 's independence , when chaos racked the nation and Celebes was terrorized by the " Darul Islam " rebels , an Islamic fundamentalist group who succeeded in capturing the entire medical team and holding them hostage for eighteen months . |