Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 2 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |
| 3 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 4 | Previously , using the former communist regime 's arrangements , taxes had been deducted from the total wage fund of each enterprise . |
| 5 | Roger Jacobi has described a vivid picture of hunters around Cheddar Gorge using the many shallow access valleys from the Levels to the top of the Mendips as ambush points for animals moving to and fro over the seasons , and it is noticeable how many of the Mesolithic sites located by Joan Taylor and Rebecca Smart are at the top end of shallow valleys in the front of the Mendips and close to former springs . |
| 6 | He insisted that his dancers told their own story by using the many conventional gestures familiar to theatregoers throughout Europe . |
| 7 | She said it courteously , using the same polite professional tone that he was using himself , all the time hating the fact that he never teased her now . |
| 8 | Until recently , there have been no established codec standards and one system can only speak to another if it is using the same compression-decompression algorithms . |
| 9 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telecommunication Services and Digital Equipment Corp have joined forces to develop the CloneDetector , a knowledge-based system to reduce clone fraud in the cellular industry : the system will automatically detect simultaneous calls using the same cellular telephone number but originating from multiple locations , or calls originating outside the normal geographic area used for a particular cellular telephone ; it will build a case for each instance of fraudulent use , prioritise the cases , and recommend the actions to be taken . |
| 10 | For example , railway investments are not evaluated using the same cost-benefit techniques that are used in road planning , despite recommendations that this should be done ( see , e.g. , Leitch 1977 ) . |
| 11 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 12 | When the Muslim– Druze revolt against Chamoun began with fierce street fighting in Beirut , the Christians noted that the Muslims were using the same pan-Arab rhetoric as Nasser . |
| 13 | The connection between the two is made with a two-wire bell cable , and up to three additional sensors can be added using the same two-wire cable . |
| 14 | Both produce syn-gas using the same chemical reactions used to make water gas . |
| 15 | Of course , if you 're more comfortable in a lounge suit or twin-set and pearls , prefer eggs and bacon for breakfast , insist on using the same boring toothbrush day and night , and like to take baths alone , then you can go to the Hilton . |
| 16 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 17 | Various voices , each using the same melodic outline . |
| 18 | Oligo III was competed unspecifically with oligo I ( lanes 1 to 4 , respectively ) or specifically with cold oligo III ( lanes 5 to 8 ) using the same molar amounts as for oligo I. |
| 19 | The aim of our study is to identify among subjects treated using the same endoscopic protocol — that is , urgent sclerotherapy , those dying within the first six weeks of their first variceal haemorrhage . |
| 20 | A second Oxford study compared out-patient counselling , using the same brief problem-orientated approach described in Chapter 5 , with routine care given by the general practitioner ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Most of them , according to contemporary accounts , were still using the same crude methods and homely remedies that were popular 100 years before . |
| 22 | The best performance results were obtained using the same constrained finite state grammar as HARPY with an average branching ratio of 10 . |
| 23 | Sixteen processor versions are also on their way , and longer term , HP is talking about 128 processor systems using the same basic architecture , that it will develop with its new partner Convex . |
| 24 | Here are two , more difficult figures drawn using the same basic methods of construction . |
| 25 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 26 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 27 | This was tested using the same unseen banking document , and again gave a significant result , which suggested that collocation information compiled from a general corpus could be effective within a specific domain . |
| 28 | Products of primer extension reactions were cleaved by I- Sce III and electrophoresed in parallel with enzymatic sequence reactions using the same radioactive primers and template . |
| 29 | It might sound dull to advise using the same pale colour for walls , floors and larger pieces of furniture but this treatment will make the most confined area seem lighter and airier and will make bulky objects like sofas , armchairs and beds recede into the background . |
| 30 | Regrettably , using the same experimental techniques he also found that red-leaf cabbage , beets and cauliflower have the opposite effect and appear to be carcinogenic . |