Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonn can plainly not afford the political price of continuing to shore up the German Democratic Republic with billions of Deutsche Marks unless in return for genuine reform . |
| 2 | Guppy allegedly boasted of having carried out the perfect crime , the court heard . |
| 3 | Yet he has allowed the excess creation of credit to continue , and has not used the obvious policy of overfunding to mop up the excess money supply . |
| 4 | These extreme examples highlight the ludicrousness of trying to draw together the physical traits of black people when it is clear that there exist as many differences between individual blacks as between blacks and non-blacks . |
| 5 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |