Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , tax rates may have to differ across countries in order to achieve particular abatement targets and schemes for compensating the hardest hit consumers may need to developed . |
| 2 | Although it might appears that this unit could be used to copy into EEPROMS , this proved impractical with my own computer because it is not capable of providing the longer write pulses necessary ( typically about 10mS ) . |
| 3 | Despite the US decision to lift economic sanctions in the hope of giving the newly installed government of President Guillermo Endara a chance , Panama , like much of Latin American and Africa , remains deeply in debt . |
| 4 | His success in eliminating London smog was balanced by the task of implementing the much disliked Rent Act of his predecessor , Duncan Sandys ( later Baron Duncan-Sandys ) . |
| 5 | The second response to the endemic boredom , monotony and frequent cold , and to the impossibility of achieving the formally stated goals , was ‘ easing behaviour ’ … |
| 6 | While his thoughts were on Venus the landscape was rubbed away like chalk from a blackboard and he has lost the means of identifying the newly discovered stars … |
| 7 | When I saw him stood upright before me , I could not be sure to what extent he was hunched over due to infirmity and what extent due to the habit of accommodating the steeply sloped ceilings of the room . |
| 8 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 9 | Prosecutors on March 18 opened another investigation into claims that Christopher Drogoul , the former head of BNL 's branch in Atlanta , had personally telephoned a US company on Aug. 7 , 1990 ( i.e. after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ) , to offer help with circumventing the newly implemented US sanctions against Iraq . |
| 10 | Pointing out the growing difficulty in policing the densely populated Gaza Strip , and stressing that , unlike the West Bank , Jews could find few meaningful historical links with Gaza , the plan advocated the handing over of the area either to the UN or to a governing body of Palestinians . |
| 11 | The MDC incurred capital and operational costs in keeping the now renamed Festival Gardens open . |
| 12 | And I accept there are a number here of items , I mean there 's er another one that Peter mentions which was the er large thorn plants to discourage the children from climbing the newly erected fence at the nature reserve . |
| 13 | The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time . |
| 14 | All benefits and cover cease upon reaching the originally agreed termination date of the loan . |
| 15 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 16 | In the absence of speech — or even silent movies ' traditional inter-titles — Lane succeeds in making the gently miming performances , the real locations and the expressive music soundtrack carry the burden of the film 's meaning . |
| 17 | Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out . |
| 18 | At the time of writing there are four teams handling new business and a further team of 12 people involved in servicing the now established client bank . |
| 19 | He was asked whether he thought he would get back his record for taking the most Test wickets . |
| 20 | George Lansbury had approached the ILP Members after their election to suggest negotiations for uniting the greatly reduced Opposition . |
| 21 | The company is also involved in a project which is intended to ‘ bring school science to life ’ in the local community by using the so called Ciba-Geigy ‘ bicycle pack ’ , which provides primary school teachers with ideas for classroom science activities linked to the theme of the bicycle . |
| 22 | In their final game they defied normal logic and won the hardest game in their section by defeating the much fancied Holland , courtesy of a piece of outstanding arrogance by the diminutive midfield dynamo Archie Gemmill . |