Example sentences of "[that] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is made worse by the fact that using the wrong one ( such as ‘ no ’ when the keyname is expecting ‘ false ’ ) may be mistaken for ‘ true ’ . |
| 2 | All this means that building the temporal city is not simply a stage of ‘ humanisation ’ or ‘ pre-evangelisation ’ as was held up until a few years ago . |
| 3 | The results , presented in Table 2 , show that allowing the extra sources of income to matter ( Model 4 ) produces very different results from Model 1 and Model 5 ( where the extra income is assumed not to matter ) . |
| 4 | InteCalc claims that pressing the right arrow key will scroll through the currently available files but this was n't the case on my sample . |
| 5 | Do not be taken in by oil-company promises that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration will never harm the 170,000 caribou that go there to calve . |
| 6 | They said that denying the sexual urge was nothing compared to dealing with the male and female cross-currents that sweep through a marriage . |
| 7 | Conscious that Rotoroa is notorious for its insect and wasp populations , and that tackling the remaining section of path around the lake involved skills more suited to machete-wielding Ecuadorians , we knew what we had to do . |
| 8 | They have been inferring that applying the opposite rudder has been the cause of reversing the spin , whereas the real cause of this happening must be the failure to unstall the wings . |
| 9 | This was not a dreary exercise : rabbinical students feel that chanting the sacred words reveals the inner music to the soul and learning something ‘ by heart ’ — a revealing phrase — helps one to interiorise it and make it one 's own . |
| 10 | As to implementation , it said that " experts agree that meeting the new recommendations will require considerable time and expense " . |
| 11 | It claims that developing the single isomer form of conventional drugs is a good way for such companies to minimise erosion of their market share by generic drug manufacturers by effectively extending patent protection for the product . |
| 12 | I have been told that fitting the larger tyres will give a better top speed , and a better ride , is that correct ? |
| 13 | In fact there are those who go even further , insisting that favouring the verbal capacities of the left hemisphere not only conceals but actually deforms and disables right-sided accomplishments . |
| 14 | What I wish to suggest is that filling the structural lacuna makes structured talk without higher-order thought look much less likely . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's also some element of poison pill , in that adding the other things makes it a little less attractive . ’ |
| 16 | Unfortunately such empire-builders seem to have overlooked the fact that selling the same names and images a thousand different ways also hands unprecedented power to film and pop stars , whose soaring demands have sent movie and recording costs spiralling . |
| 17 | Many seem to believe that lamenting the middle-class bias of their sample is a sufficient contribution towards equality . |
| 18 | This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money . |
| 19 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 20 | Such is its diversity that measuring the total expenditure on it seems quite impossible and the number of ‘ actors ’ already involved is vast . |
| 21 | The Government has admitted that forcing the poorest of pensioner 's who are on Income Support to pay twenty per cent of the proposed Council Tax would be Tax , would be wrong . |
| 22 | Li stated that safeguarding the long-term stability and prosperity of Hong Kong was the common goal of both China and the UK , as well as of the inhabitants of Hong Kong and its foreign investors . |
| 23 | The other thing is if the school children walk round , and through where they 're supposed to go , it still goes past Wide Pond , and they 've eroded all the grass where they 've made their own little footpaths through , I do n't think going that going the other way would make it any different . |
| 24 | At the broadest level it has been contended that stifling the artistic urges of the convicted or incarcerated would have deprived the world of much great literature . |
| 25 | Does he agree that minimising the regulatory burden on business is a worthy objective for any Government ? |
| 26 | The glum and the cheery would at least have agreed that getting the best artist for one 's pictures was crucial , and some rows , as for instance between Albert Gunther and Francis Day , were over attempts to commandeer an artist . |
| 27 | Care has been taken to ensure that getting the right answer requires a genuine understanding of the grammatical rules . |
| 28 | The analysis above indicates that getting the underlying structure right ( i.e. having an efficient firm organization ) is at least as important as having control over the firm 's prices directly . |
| 29 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 30 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |