Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has principally meant providing more access to consumer goods and services , such as education , while continuing to deny any section of the black population access to political decision-making , or fundamentally changing the economic order . |
| 2 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 3 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 4 | You may be attracted by an advertisement in your local paper , or perhaps reading the nursing press has aroused your interest . |
| 5 | ‘ We were both trapped , you once said , ’ she reminded him helplessly , with some idea of comforting him , or perhaps easing the process of rationalisation and self-forgiveness he was inevitably going to have to endure . |
| 6 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 7 | But many Scottish broadcasters argue that in deploying minimum resources there will be instances where the new directorate wo n't authorise Manchester to fill the gap and they are faced with the choice of hiring independents at what might prove a greater cost , thereby going over budget , or perhaps losing the programme . |
| 8 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 9 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 10 | So that , no matter what they do , they are more or less giving the same performance each time . |
| 11 | Faldo 's putter was ice-cool in the 90 degree heat , with at least 10 birdie putts of 18ft or less missing the target . |
| 12 | Others , mainly the girls , spent the next hour or so exercising the jaw muscles — until the great white chief shouted , ‘ OK ; time to get together ’ . |
| 13 | Journalists then get their hands on the beasts , spend an hour or so flying the aeroplane and give their readers and potential customers a definitive report on the aeroplane . |
| 14 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 15 | In the first edition of this book we described at length the reactions evoked by the Report , its strengths and weaknesses as we saw them , and the developments that occurred in the year or so following the publication of Circular 11/77 . |
| 16 | After a month or so maturing the tank , I introduced some stock . |
| 17 | If so , would that have been vanity to the point of sin — or merely preserving the Lord 's gift ? |
| 18 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 19 | Over the next ten days de Gaulle played a very dangerous and difficult game , in which he manipulated the threat of Operation Resurrection without overtly backing or overtly disavowing the army 's plans . |
| 20 | This is a slightly awkward combination which takes a bit of getting used to , but it 's a good way to prevent you accidentally or absent-mindedly starting the machine . |
| 21 | Knowing or not knowing the title of the passage had a significant effect on recall , as did word order . |
| 22 | Moreover — another fruitful borrowing from physics — Pasteur discovered in 1848 that chemically identical substances could be physically distinct , e.g. rotating or not rotating the plane of polarised light . |
| 23 | All of this unavoidably suggested that the ‘ central question in the debates now under way in the country is the question of recognising or not recognising the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction , and hence in restructuring ’ . |
| 24 | So it 's either setting or not setting the weights and in the N tuple rule all we do is in fact set the weights . |
| 25 | Is n't it — look , I know — is n't it like your signing or not signing the minutes of the last meeting ? |
| 26 | The unsavoury bickering between Transvaal President Dr. Luis Luyt , the ANC and the SARFU over whether or not playing the anthem broke a formal agreement or not tended to cloud the issue . |
| 27 | These powers were employed with telling effect on a series of ‘ H-block ’ marches , when hundreds of people were arrested and convicted for taking part in prohibited marches or not observing the 5-day rule . |
| 28 | Contributions to recurrent costs were about Z$420 million ( about Z$100 per pupil per year ) .7 This parental involvement is theoretically voluntary , but parents are presented with the option of participating or not having the schools they want . |
| 29 | They were close to the canal , and there were several people about , inspecting the expensive fashion jewellery on sale in several shops , or just enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the lock area . |
| 30 | Otherwise wandering the boulevards , discovering unspoilt backwaters or just watching the people is as much fun as more expensive pastimes . |