Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitehead ( 1978 ) and Williams ( 1977 ) have both offered perceptive critiques which suggest that , at the very least , Britton 's notion of writing modes the expressive , poetic and transactional — and his categories of audience should not be regarded as unproblematic . |
| 2 | Sometimes these accidents are caused by laziness , but more often they are the result of someone not realising the significance of doing things the right way . |
| 3 | He had three further drives for Lotus in 1969 : in South Africa he was sixth on the grid and dropped out with damaged gears ; on his first Nürburgring , he qualified twelfth and fell victim to a shunt on the first lap — one of his very rare accidents , for Mario has a finely honed sense of doing things the safe way . |
| 4 | Furthermore , Matthew stresses that the task of telling men the good news and ‘ baptising them into the possession of the Holy Spirit will only De theirs after the cross and resurrection have given them a gospel to proclaim and a Spirit to receive ( 28:19 ) . |
| 5 | Dr Noyan and his colleagues believe that the act of stretching coordinates the spontaneous movements of the smooth muscle of the lymph node , a process they call frequency stabilisation . |
| 6 | In considering tenders the contract-awarding body was obliged to treat all offers equally — there should be no discrimination between home and foreign bids . |
| 7 | In prefiguring insurrections the following year in British Honduras and Trinidad , the Taranto uprising had a profound effect on the development of black nationalism in the British Caribbean . |
| 8 | The evidence is clear , too , that in mining districts the first part of the nineteenth century saw a serious erosion of holidays . |
| 9 | The problems of deciding whether a pupil has mastered a concept or skill are discussed in relation to an experiment in giving pupils the same tests in different modes but similar in content and difficulty on two separate occasions . |
| 10 | Gloucester do n't believe in doing things the easy way … funny thing is they play better when they 're up against it … so this game was ideal … they were losing and down to fourteen men when Pete Jones was sent off mid way through the first half for stamping … |
| 11 | In choosing systems the following features must be considered : — make of computer — version of ROM monitor , and of the operating system — version of BASIC and its facilities , and other language alternatives — amount of memory available for a user program — availability of disc storage for files — availability of cassette storage for files — availability of additional hardware , eg , high-resolution graphics , sound generator , graphics tablets or voice control . |
| 12 | Moreover , while these analyses are useful in clarifying relationships the underlying explanation of them has to be sought in the factors surveyed by other chapters . |
| 13 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 14 | The staff were pared to the bone and in order to open the house to paying visitors the stable block was turned into a tea room and gift shop . |
| 15 | In short , as an industrial form , Co-operation has to make progress in the face of a massive inertia , against the virtually automatic commitment to doing things the known way . |
| 16 | Common philosophy : What is becoming clear as the partnership progresses is that BP and Unipart share a common philosophy — based on quality products , a focus on giving customers the best possible service , and a commercial drive to get more bang for fewer bucks . |