Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 2 | It is useful for bringing together the separate parts of the ANLT and the grammar and lexicon can be developed and altered within this environment . |
| 3 | This unusual situation provides a motivation for bringing together the extreme poles of our everyday understanding of space and time : the most outer and the most inner , the first and the last . |
| 4 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |
| 5 | Unsurprisingly , he left after completing only the one film , and his position was taken over by his erstwhile colleague , Victor Saville . |
| 6 | Chapman , of Billericay , admitted dangerous driving after drinking twice the legal limit . |
| 7 | Under the policy we are responsible for replacing only the damaged item and not undamaged matching items . |
| 8 | One question which has concerned psycholinguists for many years is why there exist in English ( and in other languages ) several alternative syntactic options ( or paraphrases ) for expressing essentially the same information . |
| 9 | There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia . |
| 10 | Figure 3.3 shows that the Japanese ‘ transplants ’ in the USA have significantly better productivity and quality than their local rivals , despite using roughly the same wage rates for US labour . |
| 11 | It has been argued earlier that the LEAs , both individually and collectively , failed to generate greater consensus on the school curriculum , but were there not alternative means of bringing together the various partners ( the LEAs , schools and their teachers , governors and parents , industry and commerce ; the churches ) to reach an agreement ? |
| 12 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 13 | With the aim of keeping only the Imperial Tobacco and Imperial Foods divisions , Hanson within a short period of time sold Imperial 's hotels and restaurants interests to Trust House Forte ( £190 million ) , Golden Wonder Crisps to Dalgety ( £87 million ) and Courage to the Australian company Elders IXL ( £1.4 billion ) . |
| 14 | At the heart of the difficulty of delineating clearly the essential features of the Constitution is its ever-changing nature . |
| 15 | To ensure the achievement of that objective he stressed the importance of informing fully the post-war generation of these basic principles and of securing the co-operation of the universities through their extra-mural departments . |
| 16 | The French military authorities held that , since their army was incapable of invading even the demilitarised Rhineland , the reoccupation would make no real difference . |
| 17 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 18 | Though the differences were minute they were capable of calling forth the highest passions : great content if you did well , or jealousy and despair if you did badly . |
| 19 | When the winds are southerly the drift would be in the reverse direction , but the waves responsible , being of smaller size due to limited fetch and generally lighter winds , would be capable of moving only the finer material back towards West Bay . |
| 20 | Final preparation of the bud consists of cutting square the top tip of the bud shield , and lightly bending back the other tongue end just enough for a tiny sliver of pith wood behind the eye to lift . |
| 21 | In the result , therefore , the adjudication of Mr. Dennis as bankrupt after the death of his wife did not have the effect of severing retrospectively the joint tenancy before her death . |
| 22 | Six alternative ways of linking together the daily prices between 1982 and 1989 were used , and some substantial differences in the results were observed . |
| 23 | Not for the first time , she wishes she had her sister 's confidence with men , her way of saying just the right thing in the right way to make them laugh , or listen , or love . |
| 24 | An ordinary delegate said he rejected the idea of blaming only the previous leaders for past mistakes . |
| 25 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 26 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 27 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 28 | So there is the option of doing both the walking tour or the bus tour . |
| 29 | I abandoned the idea altogether of taking either the sovereign state or that vague concept , the national society , as the unit of analysis . |
| 30 | According to Mordechai Vanunu , who is serving 18 years in solitary confinement , Israel has more than 200 nuclear warheads capable of reaching even the Soviet Union . |