Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries . |
| 2 | This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened . |
| 3 | It is often said , persuasively , that men entered into social relations in the course of using or transforming the non-human material world . |
| 4 | When you do not live with anyone else there is no one to nag you about smoking , drinking , eating too much , or eating the wrong things . |
| 5 | Or eating the wrong things ? |
| 6 | In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together . |
| 7 | Temperature can be remedied by using hotter solutions , changing hot solutions more frequently , using greater volumes or preheating the soiled surface . |
| 8 | Thus , the issue arose between redistributing work to the inexperienced solicitor or maintaining the experienced trial advocate , the ‘ Baron ’ , who was already in the dominant role . |
| 9 | Dearlove considers the whole pressure for increased scale simply as a cover for regaining or maintaining the influential position of business interests in local government ( Dearlove 1979 ) . |
| 10 | As Banderas struggles to come to terms with the choices being offered him — remaining a serious but relatively obscure actor in European films , or accepting the international stardom Hollywood dangles seductively before him with its accompanying riches and loss of privacy — the roles currently being offered seem eerily appropriate . |
| 11 | The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O . |
| 12 | In the United States , by contrast , it was embodied in the First Amendment to the constitution : " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances . " |
| 13 | On the other hand , the proportions of congenital abnormalities preventable by secondary and tertiary methods are estimates based on research studies of particular conditions ( for example , ad hoc epidemiological studies for measuring the effectiveness of neonatal orthopaedic screening ) , or regions ( for example , those having excellent ultrasound scanning and trained staff for diagnosing structural defects , or using the triple test for detection of Down 's syndrome ) or of expert groups ( for example , specific postnatal treatment and early paediatric surgery ) . |
| 14 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 15 | Since that date certain material implications have followed for those subgroups and school subjects promoting or representing the academic tradition . |
| 16 | There are two types of warm boot ( the same as pressing CONTROL , ALT and DEL ) , a cold boot ( like switching off and on again , or pressing the RESET button ) and a reload , which is the quickest of the lot . |
| 17 | If he glances at this , he is able to step quickly over it with a good length stride , without tripping or interrupting the rhythmical pattern of normal walking . |
| 18 | From this kind of perspective on the road to socialism , to even consider reconstructing or reforming the British constitution is regarded as a trifling nonsense that borders on the evil of a naive reformism itself . |
| 19 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 20 | Loving humanity means as much and as little as loving raindrops , or loving the Milky Way . |
| 21 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 22 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 23 | Improving the layout of a page , or correcting the odd error or two , is now so simple that it is very easy to fall into the trap of poor style , loose grammar , or idiomatic phrasing . |
| 24 | Norris falls short of isolating or defining the actual end to which Derrida 's scrupulous and rigorous readings are directed . |
| 25 | Erm Gordon Brown is giving in , is he not to pressure from the traditionalists , when it comes to soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , he 's now saying , well maybe there will be a bit of soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , whereas he wanted to say , and you wanted him to say , no we 're not going to do that , we moved away from that . |
| 26 | Erm Gordon Brown is giving in , is he not to pressure from the traditionalists , when it comes to soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , he 's now saying , well maybe there will be a bit of soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , whereas he wanted to say , and you wanted him to say , no we 're not going to do that , we moved away from that . |
| 27 | The democrats generally favoured single-chamber or unicameral legislatures , as the most direct way of reflecting or embodying the popular will . |
| 28 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |
| 29 | The summary of the Webbs ' view is that , by contrast with their model of Socialism , Owen 's scheme — if it could have been carried out — would have done no more than redistribute the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least . |
| 30 | GCHQ has denied any involvement in intercepting , recording or disclosing the royal recordings … although it 's been suggested that an internal inquiry may already be underway at the Cheltenham centre . |