Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am holding you directly responsible for the decline in his health . |
| 2 | No price mark has been suggested for the nCube 3. nCube claims its multi-purpose machines offer a price-performance ratio that is 20 times superior to present-day mainframe computers , making them highly suitable for the commercial data processing market , particularly as Oracle Parallel Server is now shipping with current models . |
| 3 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 4 | If that approach prevails in the higher courts , it will amount to a major reverse , making it more difficult for the ordinary citizen to complain of unlawful action by a public authority . |
| 5 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 6 | ‘ obstructing , for the present purposes , means making it more difficult for the police to carry out their duties . ’ |
| 7 | I would construe ‘ wilfully obstructs ’ as doing deliberate actions with the intention of bringing about a state of affairs which , objectively regarded , amount to an obstruction as that phrase was explained by Lord Parker C.J. in Rice v. Connolly i.e. making it more difficult for the police to carry out their duty . |
| 8 | It can go on and on , soaking through boxes of tissues , seemingly having no end and making it quite impossible for the patient to speak or to say why he is crying . |
| 9 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 10 | Too much power lies with the Council of Ministers who meet in secret , making it almost impossible for the public , national governments and the European Parliament to follow their decision making process . |
| 11 | Even the perfect fine-class transcriptions resulted in extremely large numbers of paths ( an astonishing average of 862,300 ) , making it very difficult for the syntactic component to distinguish the correct interpretation . |