Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try knitting each variation in the same design . |
| 2 | In Japan superiors are expected to make their subordinates accept the practice of groupism so that trust is constituted which transcends particularlisms , binding each person to the universal love of the enterprise . |
| 3 | In theory , assuming that a project consists of a number of stages , lead time can be shortened in two ways : ( 1 ) overlapping upstream and downstream engineering activities on the critical path ; and/or ( 2 ) shortening each step on the critical path . |
| 4 | There is widespread support for completing that road at the earliest opportunity . |
| 5 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 6 | Drawing some inspiration from the American system of neighbourhood law firms but adapting themselves to local conditions and the rules of the legal profession in this country , the law centres now provide a local base for the dissemination of legal services outside the private profession . |
| 7 | Perhaps they 're not channelling this pride in the right direction . |
| 8 | Those who want the FA-18s accuse their opponents of using this issue as the thin end of a wedge designed to abolish the Swiss army . |
| 9 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 10 | There would , however , have been at least two problems with using this method in the present study . |
| 11 | A sleeve as used for the Aramid lines , Spectra and Dyneema would help , but do n't think of using this material for the flying line ! |
| 12 | ( How agents perform this prodigious feat of mimicry without actually using some form of the correct model remains decidedly mysterious to this author . ) |
| 13 | Minton asked on arriving , proving this revelation with the thousand-franc notes he produced and which enabled his young friends each in turn to take Mimi or Fifi upstairs , Hunt having previously thought that these girls , whom they drew and took dancing , were secretaries . |
| 14 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 15 | " Some of the 1916 leaders met there , " Patrick said quickly , catching some disapproval in the older man 's voice . |
| 16 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 17 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 18 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 19 | One possibility is to ignore the part of the award of damages which exceeds the amount exempt from tax under the ‘ golden handshake ’ rules , for instance by expressing the exempt amount ( currently £30,000 ) as an annual income over the unexpired period of the contract , estimating what the tax would be on that imaginary income and deducting that tax from the total compensation . |
| 20 | As a critical or psychological judgement it is meaningless , since it is difficult to see how a conductor can reveal private soul-searching whilst recording the overture to Die Fledermaus or Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , short , that is , of transposing each piece into the minor and playing it at half speed . |
| 21 | We solved the global food problem by applying that technology to the two thirds of the globe that is covered by water . |
| 22 | But the metaphor is not adequate , because each new piston-stroke is produced not by exploding another charge of the old mixture but by exploding a charge of a new kind . |
| 23 | ‘ I see myself representing this constituency throughout the 1990s . ’ |
| 24 | But the principle remains essentially the same : a mixture of 3-D reality and 2-D illusion coexisting on the 2-D plane of the film 's emulsion and apparently representing some aspect of the 3-D actual world , or some more or less realistic fantasy world . |
| 25 | The well-to-do have moved from the towns to live or buy houses in the countryside , contributing another pressure on the young who can least afford to pay the high prices thus created . |
| 26 | Both parties seemed to feel little obligation to fly the flag in their most barren areas , with the Democrats in particular gaining some reward from the careful husbandry of their more slender resources . |
| 27 | Another move might have involved challenging some assumption in the protective belt such as those concerning refraction in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 28 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 29 | Now the equation of equilibrium under no body forces states that Applying this relation to the above stress-strain law gives Rearranging terms we have |
| 30 | For their part , the Saudis are applying more pressure upon the Lebanese Assembly members . |