Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has principally meant providing more access to consumer goods and services , such as education , while continuing to deny any section of the black population access to political decision-making , or fundamentally changing the economic order . |
| 2 | You may be attracted by an advertisement in your local paper , or perhaps reading the nursing press has aroused your interest . |
| 3 | So that , no matter what they do , they are more or less giving the same performance each time . |
| 4 | All of this unavoidably suggested that the ‘ central question in the debates now under way in the country is the question of recognising or not recognising the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction , and hence in restructuring ’ . |
| 5 | These powers were employed with telling effect on a series of ‘ H-block ’ marches , when hundreds of people were arrested and convicted for taking part in prohibited marches or not observing the 5-day rule . |
| 6 | They were close to the canal , and there were several people about , inspecting the expensive fashion jewellery on sale in several shops , or just enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the lock area . |
| 7 | The adoral shields are slightly wing-like , not or just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 8 | The adoral shields are flared and wing-like separating or nearly separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 9 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 10 | Some dealers and collectors were not above altering or even removing the genuine patina and treating the surface to give the appearance they felt it should have had . |
| 11 | Apart from whether or not these exercises are effective ( they are certainly found to be enjoyable and relaxing by many pupils ) , they have given the teacher a secure base from which to work , for the teacher can be very much in charge , dictating the choice of exercise , controlling the length of time for each , selecting the background music where felt to be appropriate or even dictating the moment-to-moment activity within the experience . |
| 12 | Police committees , therefore , are precluded from either directing or even questioning the chief constable on operational matters ( Loveday 1983 ) . |
| 13 | The Daily Mirror has been right all along in accusing Pakistani cricketers of obtaining extra swing over the years through illegally roughening one side of the ball by scratching it with fingernails or even ripping the red leather surface . |
| 14 | The user is given the option of entering a record or simply entering the bibliographic details and classification number of each item to be ordered . |
| 15 | His 1938 Tiger Moth seems to be busy all the hours God gives , taking tourists into the open-cockpit air , aerobatting those who want , or simply showing the local sights to the others , with white silk scarves fluttering around their helmeted and goggled heads . |
| 16 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 17 | On the other hand , all three decisions confirm that an employee would be rashly optimistic if he expects to gain compensation from the mere fact the employer is selling or otherwise exploiting the patented invention with a significant measure of success . |
| 18 | As such , criminal law categories are resources , tools , instruments , designed and then used to criminalize , demoralize , incapacitate , fracture and sometimes eliminate those problem populations perceived by the powerful to be potentially or actually threatening the existing distribution of power , wealth , and privilege . |
| 19 | The Humbug ( Dascyllus aruanus ) is a good example and although not achieving the tactile relationship of the clowns , is usually found shoaling close to the anemone 's tentacles , darting away to hide in crevices around the anemone when approached . |
| 20 | But Allison has gone further than just stating the theoretical arguments for the process , he has already begun to explore the actual practicalities of implementing assessment techniques with the aid of students in his department . |
| 21 | But to win this game takes more than just knowing the right moves , donning the groovy gear and asking Mr Barber for ‘ a dishy pop-star cut , please ’ . |
| 22 | To my mind the answer is simple : when a critical approach is accepted as a legitimate element of social studies teaching ( and surely a critical approach is not one which is to be avoided ) then textbooks will be obliged to present alternatives , rather than just describing the sexist norm and failing to evaluate it . |
| 23 | Within insurance companies , actuaries have a much wider responsibility than just keeping the statistical score . |
| 24 | The rationale of this is that broadly speaking the net income was spent as to one-third for the benefit of each and as to one-third for their joint benefit . |
| 25 | By 1920 , although still receiving the Conservative whip in Parliament , Herbert regarded himself as an Independent , formally crossing the floor on the Irish vote on 20 November and thereafter sitting on whichever side he felt inclined . |
| 26 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 27 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 28 | A wealth of evidence exists to prove that reading involves much more than simply recognising the individual characters that form a word . |
| 29 | Rather than immediately repealing the existing Informatics Law of 1984 , however , the government decided to abolish it when it expires in 1992 . |
| 30 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |