Example sentences of "of [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments have been made with other ways of attaching the printed pages to the external case . |
| 2 | The defendant , Ballay and Jatindur Rai , another employee of Bennetts Retail , were arrested and jointly tried on an indictment alleging two counts of handling the stolen cheques against Ballay ( counts 1 and 2 ) , one count of conspiracy ( count 3 , which was not proceeded with ) and two counts of theft of the electrical goods against all the defendants ( counts 4 and 5 ) . |
| 3 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 4 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 5 | ‘ EVES ’ ( estimated vessel equivalent method ) is a means of quantifying the original numbers of pots represented . |
| 6 | His health continued to decline and within two years of masterminding the Liberal victory at the 1892 general election , so enabling W. E. Gladstone to form his fourth ministry , he resigned all his offices with the party . |
| 7 | The difficulty of rooting the universal tree of life using protein trees is also emphasized by our recent analysis of glutamate dehydrogenase phylogeny . |
| 8 | First of all , there have been important advances in experimental methods : single cell recordings with exquisitely fine electrodes ; novel methods of imaging the internal structure of neurons and the connections between them ; cell culture techniques permitting the growth and development of nervous systems to be studied in great detail ; and sophisticated computational and statistical analysis of data permitting better mathematical modelling of large and small scale events in the nervous system and its functional connections . |
| 9 | However where the insured wishes to have the whole suite recovered , a negotiated settlement may be agreed calculated on the basis of the cost of recovering the damaged item plus a maximum of 50% of the cost the remainder of the suite . |
| 10 | Then there was the problem of recovering the larger portions of wreckage , chiefly from the tail areas and rear fuselage of the aircraft . |
| 11 | ROBERT ARMSTRONG 'S Shujan can win this afternoon 's Normanton Handicap at Southwell to continue the increasingly popular trend of using the all-weather surface as a build-up to a bid for the Lincoln at Doncaster later this month ( writes our Newmarket correspondent ) . |
| 12 | Instead of using the Lasswellian framework for the study of the media 's effect on , say , individual voting preferences — namely , what is ‘ the effect of the media on the election ’ — Seymour-Ure suggests that one should rephrase the question as follows : ‘ What is the function of media in the electoral process ? ’ |
| 13 | Once ‘ plugged ’ in to the High Court , the possibility arises of using the ordinary system of civil appeals to challenge the decision of the High Court . |
| 14 | It is a question of using the right tool for the right job . |
| 15 | I went one better and something happened that has never occurred in about 25 years of using the modern type of machine with yarn mast and tension spring . |
| 16 | All the talk about demonstration projects , all the talk of using the federal government as a bully pulpit for education reform , can not hide the fact that any reforms that Mr Clinton is able to make will be ones on the margin . |
| 17 | After this performance the class was ready to move to the much more difficult task of using the naturalistic interaction of dramatic playing to explore how the family related to each other in day-to-day living . |
| 18 | Because of the consciousness of using the correct level of language in a conversation or discussion , any interpreter one engages may unconsciously modify statements going from English to Japanese and back to English again , according to the rank of the people involved . |
| 19 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |
| 20 | He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly . |
| 21 | Instead of using the traditional patch in the machine code , the user can switch to an editor in another ‘ window ’ to allow the changes to be made at source . |
| 22 | Malaysia 's Prime Minister , Mahathir Mohamed , has accused Western campaigners of using the Penan people of Sarawak as a means of promoting the interests of temperate timber over tropical hardwood . |
| 23 | There is the same remarkable development in ways of using the human voice in singing and in certain specifically formal kinds of speech . |
| 24 | And Dr McMahon accused the RUC of using the local community as a human shield to protect the police station from attack . |
| 25 | At the same time , the new digital system — ISDN2 — offers the possibility of using the same lines for either telephone or computer communication . |
| 26 | Add positive three , see this thing of using the same symbol for add and for positive is very confusing , very confusing , it 's as though , you know you 're speaking a different language where one word has about fifteen different meanings and you ca n't understand what they 're talking about most of the time . |
| 27 | Dr Fleming said : ‘ We have a tradition of using the same route for all referrals , an all-stations route . |
| 28 | This paradoxical situation arose notwithstanding great endeavours to retain the strong links between physical and human geography and it was often thought ( e.g. Fisher , 1970 ) that a revival of the regional approach still offered the only method of recementing the two parts of the subject . |
| 29 | The American Congress is wary of helping the non-communist resistance in Cambodia , for fear of helping the fierce Khmers Rouges . |
| 30 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |