Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 2 | The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries . |
| 3 | This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened . |
| 4 | It is often said , persuasively , that men entered into social relations in the course of using or transforming the non-human material world . |
| 5 | When you do not live with anyone else there is no one to nag you about smoking , drinking , eating too much , or eating the wrong things . |
| 6 | Or eating the wrong things ? |
| 7 | In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together . |
| 8 | Temperature can be remedied by using hotter solutions , changing hot solutions more frequently , using greater volumes or preheating the soiled surface . |
| 9 | A good way of starting to do this is to either join an already-existent writing class ( you can find one by looking on the noticeboard in your local library , telephoning the local Further , Adult or Higher Education Centre or contacting the nearest Workers ' Educational Association ) or , if there is n't one of these in your area , by forming your own writing group . |
| 10 | Thus , the issue arose between redistributing work to the inexperienced solicitor or maintaining the experienced trial advocate , the ‘ Baron ’ , who was already in the dominant role . |
| 11 | Dearlove considers the whole pressure for increased scale simply as a cover for regaining or maintaining the influential position of business interests in local government ( Dearlove 1979 ) . |
| 12 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |
| 13 | With its friendly staff and idyllic atmosphere you will soon relax — on the beach , at the bar or enjoying the fine Creole food in the attractive restaurant . |
| 14 | The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O . |
| 15 | The ‘ general interest ’ post would be in environmental sectors or helping the poor , old and disabled . |
| 16 | When it comes to death , counselling the dying , or helping the bereaved , we Christians have become secularised . |
| 17 | In the United States , by contrast , it was embodied in the First Amendment to the constitution : " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances . " |
| 18 | On the other hand , the proportions of congenital abnormalities preventable by secondary and tertiary methods are estimates based on research studies of particular conditions ( for example , ad hoc epidemiological studies for measuring the effectiveness of neonatal orthopaedic screening ) , or regions ( for example , those having excellent ultrasound scanning and trained staff for diagnosing structural defects , or using the triple test for detection of Down 's syndrome ) or of expert groups ( for example , specific postnatal treatment and early paediatric surgery ) . |
| 19 | Direct processing of files organized sequentially or using the indexed sequential technique is covered in the chapters devoted to those types of organization . |
| 20 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 21 | Since that date certain material implications have followed for those subgroups and school subjects promoting or representing the academic tradition . |
| 22 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 23 | Keating described the budget as a consolidation of the government 's policy which was succeeding in " slowing the economy without impairing longer-term growth prospects or jeopardizing the economic and social advances of recent years " . |
| 24 | These feature a large colour screen allowing users to select the information source they want simply by pointing or pressing the appropriate colour-coded key . |
| 25 | There are two types of warm boot ( the same as pressing CONTROL , ALT and DEL ) , a cold boot ( like switching off and on again , or pressing the RESET button ) and a reload , which is the quickest of the lot . |
| 26 | If he glances at this , he is able to step quickly over it with a good length stride , without tripping or interrupting the rhythmical pattern of normal walking . |
| 27 | From this kind of perspective on the road to socialism , to even consider reconstructing or reforming the British constitution is regarded as a trifling nonsense that borders on the evil of a naive reformism itself . |
| 28 | President Hussein no longer seems passionately interested in liberating Palestine , or in destabilising or over-running the small Arab sheikhdoms of the Gulf . |
| 29 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 30 | Loving humanity means as much and as little as loving raindrops , or loving the Milky Way . |