Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
3 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
4 | The problem with this way of putting down the strategy is that the sense/reason/emotion division is difficult to handle in practice , and there is no clear guide to the balance required between the three categories . |
5 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
6 | Okay , I will then , outside this meeting , take on this task of setting up the forms view the output from all this gathering and decide what , whether we can make a sensible rationing from some of the forms . |
7 | Despite much talk of cutting back the state , the central government 's annual output of new rules and changes to the old ones has risen by 8% since 1985 . |
8 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
9 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
10 | Perhaps partly because of the decay , the garden had retained the atmosphere of enclosure and secrecy — that feeling of shutting out the world beyond — essential to any walled pleasure garden . |
11 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
12 | The paltry crowd of 1,223 had very little to cheer as Quakers failed to show any sign of breaking down the visitors . |