Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corrie looks terrifying from its base , and indeed I would hazard a guess that avalanches are pretty fond of rumbling down the upper reaches of it after spring snow . |
| 2 | ‘ But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious . |
| 3 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 6 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 7 | The latter methods are used by every modern choreographer working with classical dance because it is more flexible and expressive and many dancers trained in its technique are capable of acting out the deepest emotions of the characters played , as Ashton and MacMillan have continually shown . |
| 8 | By the 1970s , the legislative process had altered enormously , but the only changes in House of Commons procedure have been to make it less capable of controlling even the old pattern of legislation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the instant case the words of section 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 that fall to be construed , ‘ provision in relation to … retirement ’ , without any undue straining of the ordinary meaning of the language used , are capable of bearing either the narrow meaning accepted by the Employment Appeal Tribunal or the wider meaning preferred by the Court of Appeal but acknowledged by that court to be largely a matter of first impression . |
| 11 | Holyfield 's men , and there are plenty of them , including a woman as ballet coach , are certain that he will emerge as a true heavyweight champion , capable of taking out the big men of the division . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is thought that the head secretes a substance which is capable of breaking down the outer layer of the ovum . |
| 14 | Three joined together can form a ferry capable of carrying the Challenger tank , or they can be coupled to form a bridge capable of carrying even the heaviest Army loads . |
| 15 | But , once more , the qualifications were liberally added : ‘ as long as the individual is active and capable of carrying out the required duties ’ ; and ‘ where risks to other persons are involved ( eg driving ) , then adequate checks on ability should be made . ’ |
| 16 | The suggestion that pre-exposure to a stimulus establishes an exact representation of it , for instance , is not in itself enough to explain latent inhibition ; indeed it seems capable of predicting quite the wrong result . |
| 17 | The crisis came when the political system proved incapable of controlling either the competing elites or the alienated masses ( Post and Vickers 1973 ) . |
| 18 | Although Sollas referred to natural selection , he elsewhere ridiculed Darwin 's theory as incapable of explaining how the higher types were actually produced . |
| 19 | The French military authorities held that , since their army was incapable of invading even the demilitarised Rhineland , the reoccupation would make no real difference . |
| 20 | When the regression was over , Barry was able to see that , because of his past experience , he had become terrified of showing even the slightest sign of aggression in this lifetime in case he once again lost control and reverted to his former self . |