Example sentences of "[v-ing] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . ) |
| 2 | Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components . |
| 3 | simply just not noticing much on the screen really . |
| 4 | This could cost up to £1 billion , defeating much of the purpose of the VAT increase as a revenue-earning measure . |
| 5 | He employed the conventional Velikovskian technique of selecting evidence while at the same time adopting much of the traditional ( that is , false ) Velikovskian lore . |
| 6 | England was already an old country by late Saxon times , and the new evidence suggests a relatively large population utilising much of the landscape to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 7 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 8 | Thieves would be unlikely to remove the communications chips because it would be time-consuming and mean disassembling much of the car . |
| 9 | The advance to the west to find and destroy Caratacus meant stripping much of the eastern part of the Province of its garrisons . |
| 10 | The aircraft continued in a wide arc , during which time the wings and the engine were torn off , apparently absorbing much of the energy . |
| 11 | A solicitor who can not be named for legal reasons faces trial in the summer accused of laundering much of the drug money . |
| 12 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 13 | The big research foundations such as the Rowntree or Carnegie Trusts are of vital importance in financing much of the work carried out by universities or other organizations . |
| 14 | US F-111 aircraft using laser-guided " smart " bombs succeeded in stemming much of the flow on Jan. 26-27 by knocking out two manifolds — oil pressure controls — at the Mina al-Ahmadi oil storage facility which fed the Sea Island terminal . |
| 15 | Thirteen persons ( 21 per cent ) showed some signs of ethical and moral sense , though accepting much of the Nazi claim that the Jews had caused Germany harm . |
| 16 | An intact tomb has yielded golden gloves , crowns and other treasures , redating much of the world 's ‘ Inca ’ and ‘ Chimó ’ gold and treasures |
| 17 | Before becoming a coastguard officer , Mr Baker spent six years seeing much of the world as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy . |
| 18 | By organizing much of the process yourself , at least for the key posts , you will enhance your ability to select the right person . |
| 19 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 20 | For example , catalytic converter equipped petrol cars contribute 30–35 per cent more carbon dioxide — gas causing much of the greenhouse effect — to the environment than diesel cars . |
| 21 | The chapter on pain assessment , for example , concentrates mainly on the physical aspects of care , detailing much of the doctor 's role as it exists in this country , and only one page is given to health assessment — arguably the most important area for nurses in the UK . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle . |
| 23 | The very poorest , who depend on state benefits , will be relieved of paying much of the charge , but those with just enough income to be denied this relief will suffer severely . |
| 24 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 25 | Clinton , directing much of the free-flowing discussion , was widely perceived to have enhanced his reputation for grasping detailed and complex issues . |
| 26 | Since we can not count on people grasping much of the words at a first hearing it is the musical qualities which will contribute to the success or failure of a choral piece . |
| 27 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 28 | Simply using energy and fuel efficiently could stop us releasing much of the carbon dioxide we currently emit . |
| 29 | This is the HS.125 which to all intents and purposes is a mini-airliner exhibiting much of the technology required for a 1960s jetliner . |
| 30 | Even the most gifted editor would have problems turning much of the obligatory information into riveting reading . |