Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 2 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 3 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
| 4 | the relaxing garden terrace and very peaceful swimming pool are a fantastic place for soaking up the long hot days in the sun , and the pool is served throughout the day by a restaurant/bar . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 8 | the tax effect of adding back the exceptional German stock provision ; and |
| 9 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 10 | Tonks was incensed about the Vichy venture , as were the NZRFU folk at home , everyone was embarrassed that they had no way of knowing where the All Black party were , what was involved in the game , and where next the travelling group might surface . |
| 11 | It looks very much a way of screening out The Great Wonderful British Public and not having to endure any of their tiresome phone witterings . |
| 12 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 13 | In particular there is concern within the British civil aviation industry about the level of costs being incurred by the CAA , and recovered from industry , in its work towards setting up the European Joint Aviation Authority and associated regulatory functions , particularly in this formative period when the British Authority continues to function as an autonomous body whose charges must also be borne by operators . |
| 14 | We recently had the opportunity of trying out the latest handheld transceiver in the ICOM range , the IC-A20 MkII . |
| 15 | Dollo 's Law is really just a statement about the statistical improbability of following exactly the same evolutionary trajectory twice ( or , indeed , any particular trajectory ) , in either direction . |
| 16 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced that 15 billion Deutschmarks ( £6.3 bn ) will be made available for cleaning up the estimated 70,000 hazardous waste dumps in former East Germany . |
| 17 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 18 | As was seen earlier , overtime plays a much greater role in pushing up the average gross weekly earnings of the male manual than of the male non-manual worker . |
| 19 | ‘ You write fairly well , ’ said Morse , after reading through the sheet for a second time , and still refraining from pointing out the single grammatical monstrosity . |
| 20 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 21 | Preincubation of neutrophils for 30–60 minutes at 37°C with colchicine ( 2.5×10 - 5 M to 2.5×10 - 4 M ) ( Sigma ) before carrying out the indirect immunohistological labelling did not affect the staining pattern . |
| 22 | The lack of progress was attributed partly to a delay of two weeks in setting up the joint working commissions whose task was to implement the Accord under UN auspices . |
| 23 | He played a vital role in setting up the Australian National Trust , and was president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . |
| 24 | Because of the difference between Asynchronous Transfer Mode and other technology introductions , AT&T is placing heavy emphasis on the Customer Advisory Council 's role , particularly in working out the best tariffing regime . |
| 25 | Such observations should also be discussed with the adviser or specialist teacher as they can be very helpful in working out the optimum visual environment for the pupil . |
| 26 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 27 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 28 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 29 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 30 | Should he not turn his attention vigorously to sorting out the common agricultural policy , which is endangering the Uruguay round and remains a serious blot which is totally inconsistent with the sort of policies that are embodied in the new treaty ? |