Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insufficient because it does not provide what law has to offer , which is first , an authoritative means of deciding what the rules to be applied are : second , an impartial method of applying those rules to particular circumstances , and third , a way of marking that the rules and resultant decisions are binding or non-optional on the parties . |
| 2 | The increasing reliance on managers ' reports as a means of deciding what the shops should carry infuriated Laura and complicated her ambivalent feelings towards her shop staff . |
| 3 | Charles took on the job of improving Diana 's geography and also of teaching her the tricks of the trade — how to handle the different sorts of engagements , how to remember names and avoid missing or offending anyone , how to pace herself , how to address people , what sort of questions to ask and how to steer clear of banana skins . |
| 4 | Theists grow impatient with what they see as the reductionist behaviour of atheists , whom they accuse of disproving something the theists never claimed to believe in . |
| 5 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 6 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 7 | I 'm sure that e e if there is an easy way of doing it the Conservatives would have found out and done it . |
| 8 | Erm , yes I think , I think , you know , immediately you 're thinking of doing it the branches and obviously you 're running po , pretty big in |
| 9 | Obliged to ask parliament for funds for these expeditions and for his other expenses , the King found that , instead of voting him the customs duties for life , as was normal on the monarch s accession , it attempted to impeach Buckingham for corruption and incompetence . |
| 10 | At a congress on Jan. 20 the NDPD voted against renaming itself the Republicans . |
| 11 | Thank you for sending me the documents being prepared for this conference . |
| 12 | Thank you for sending me the details of this extremely worrying case . |
| 13 | Thank you very much for sending us the samples of prints from the English In Focus video taken from the Sony UP 5000 video printer . |
| 14 | ‘ We owe a good deal of thanks to Mr Kennedy for all the effort he put into getting us the medals , ’ said Mr Connor . |
| 15 | In saving themselves the Bravoes had saved George as well although only from the consequences not the horror . |
| 16 | People have got to be involved in solving themselves the problems themselves . |
| 17 | However , it is clear that , in deciding what the words used in an exclusion clause mean , the court can and will take account of the other provisions of the contract ; the clause must be interpreted in its context . |
| 18 | Since theory is involved in deciding what the facts are , there is room for choice when deciding whether the theory at stake is consistent with them . |
| 19 | The teacher 's role is to help students to progress from considering what the characters do to working out what they need to say in order to achieve the same result in similar circumstances . |
| 20 | The problem lies in determining what the standards shall be . |
| 21 | Notice , though , that while flow figures are useful in telling us the directions in which companies channel the funds they received , they do not tell us how active intermediaries are in any particular market . |
| 22 | It is at this stage that the various approaches — use of quality adjusted life years , lotteries , sanctity of life — may be useful , but in discussing them the authors raise a series of straw men . |
| 23 | In this instance , that is in the interests of taxpayers and also of managers and employees because it is only through learning what the values are and what the method of bidding is that they will achieve a learning curve . |
| 24 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 25 | They got the losers ' medals , in the end , though someone at the FA should get round to re-naming them the runners-up medals . |
| 26 | But Peter had insisted on giving her the earrings as an engagement present , with the promise that a ring would soon follow . |
| 27 | She was a most untouchable woman ; Roland , who had desperately decided to gamble on showing her the xeroxes of the letters who wanted secrecy and privacy , was forced to lean forward in a kind of pseudo-intimacy and speak low . |
| 28 | I never got round to showing you the photos of him last time . ’ |
| 29 | Er yeah but why , yeah okay I did n't mean that actually was he asking too much , I mean are we interpreting the peasants as having done , are we over interpreting what the peasants have done , basically ? |
| 30 | My sincere thanks to my amanuensis Simon Rose , to my personal assistants Cressida and Catherine and to my colleague Bargepole , for showing me the consequences of taking the wrong turning in life . |