Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 2 | Water for fulling — cleansing and thickening the cloth — and in due course for driving the industrial mills which were to replace the looms of individual home-based workers was also an important factor . |
| 3 | Given that in the harmonisation process we have already got rid of the half crown and of the threepenny bit , what is the emotional difficulty about changing the pound coin to the ecu ? |
| 4 | It had to be cast by the unsuitable technique of melting the metal in separate crucibles . |
| 5 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 6 | Karmal was subsequently replaced as party leader and president by Najibullah , but there was little progress in establishing the broadly-based ‘ government of national reconciliation ’ which was his declared objective . |
| 7 | Furthermore , one can observe different subjects making differential progress in understanding the various stages in the transition from myopic to dynamically optimal . |
| 8 | THE GOVERNMENT 's success in the Maastricht Treaty vote has generally been welcomed in the region as a step in the right direction towards improving the North West 's business confidence . |
| 9 | They were able to do this partly because some of the messages were generalized enough to allow virtually any interpretation , and partly because messages sometimes combined minute practical detail with broad general principle , allowing teachers to feel they were taking a step in the right direction by changing the surface appearance of their practice without altering its substance . |
| 10 | The first requirement is to identify staff with specific responsibility for promoting the organisation 's image throughout the community . |
| 11 | The LASMO Arts Trust has specific responsibility for arranging the festival and providing financial support to all finalists . |
| 12 | Go in the microwave that 's all , I ai n't got much money at all , I did n't have that much left , I bought mum 's cigs and that bit of shopping the other day and that was the end of that we will survive . |
| 13 | That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story . |
| 14 | But the Barclays Franchise Pack can guide you in making that decision by prompting the questions that you should ask of both yourself , the prospective franchiser , and even some of the existing franchisees . |
| 15 | We conclude that the muscle autonomously defines the synaptic site , whereas the motor neuron directs the development of the muscle 's receptive field by stimulating the synthesis and localization of transmitter receptors . |
| 16 | They are used as reserves of migrant labour and ray materials , to which the developed centre can export its unemployment when necessary : the importance of sovereignty is that a Bantustan carries political responsibility for handling the consequences of economic downturn , while the developed centre carries little or none . |
| 17 | However , it was suggested that he could overcome that hurdle by signing the Blackpool involvement over to his wife . |
| 18 | In addition , one unit specifically examines the role of economic change in shaping the state . |
| 19 | Every instrument , however unimportant it may seem , must play a definite part in reinforcing the main lines of the texture . |
| 20 | With the fact that Sugar was the regular mount for Wallace and Baker , there is a definite case for adding the January 5 mission to Sugar 's official tally of trips . |
| 21 | The smaller Protestant states of northern Europe — Brandenburg-Prussia , Sweden , Denmark — which were all to varying extents anxious to conciliate Russia , had little hesitation in recognising the new title . |
| 22 | Labour has claimed ministers such as Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley , Portillo , and Michael Howard , who were associated with the Thatcherite ‘ no turning back ’ group , have gained wider political support by using the review to reinvigorate Conservative thinking about privatisation and ‘ marketisation ’ . |
| 23 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 24 | As always , he had that look of having the world on a string , everything indisputably under his control . |
| 25 | ‘ The successful scholar is normally the person who has the least difficulty in identifying the route from A to B … yet are these always the best people to put in charge of those with the greatest difficulty ? ’ . |
| 26 | But we can reduce that complexity by answering the question — how do I win my battle ? ’ |
| 27 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 28 | They broke that contract by taking the later ( and much larger ) claim into account . |
| 29 | The most straightforward approach is to take the narrow course of satisfying the client . |
| 30 | … the right framework for placing the management of the service on a more professional footing , providing the most positive environment for staff to work in and , above all , ensuring the delivery of an improved service both to the public and those held in custody . |