Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 2 | The ‘ general interest ’ post would be in environmental sectors or helping the poor , old and disabled . |
| 3 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 4 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 5 | I would also like to reassure your readers that moving the National Fruit Collection , should this prove necessary , is unlikely to be the traumatic event that some people imagine . |
| 6 | The front driver 's side of the bus was driven back twelve feet amputating Mr Wright 's legs and killing the three students . |
| 7 | We swallowed hard , stiffened our upper lip , and decided to ‘ see it through ’ by shutting our eyes and applying the same old formula regardless — a constitution , a mace , a copy of Erskine May , a Speaker 's chair and national independence . |
| 8 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 9 | THE MARKET leader in this field , offering the largest number of trips and covering the widest geographical spread , is Swan Hellenic . |
| 10 | The so-called dorsal lobe is chiefly represented by a transverse fibrous tract situated above the antennal lobes and joining the latter together . |
| 11 | For example , if a particular method of prevention ( or treatment ) is of uncertain value , there are many obstacles to be passed before the necessary research can be conducted , from seeking funds and securing the necessary collaboration to obtaining consent from many local research ethics committees . |
| 12 | In the case of international law what the institutions of positive law have to offer is a means for settling dangerous disputes and limiting the destructive powers which could be used to resolve those disputes in an unacceptable manner . |
| 13 | The initial BFS produced by this method can also be used as an initial BFS for the TRP by identifying i with as warehouses and i with as shops and allowing the initial BFS to contain only x i j , where i is a warehouse and j a shop . |
| 14 | Many of the chairmen were also anxious to strengthen their presence in the retailing of electrical goods by extending the number of shops and releasing the commercial drive of managers . |
| 15 | Given the pressures of external demands , the size of the diocese , and the problems of travelling to over 300 parishes , most bishops and their officers had to content themselves with regular exhortations and punishing the worst , or least skilful , clerical offenders . |
| 16 | This kind of map analysis used to be done manually ( before the advent of practical GIS ) by overlaying transparent map sheets , establishing the required spatial relationships and drawing the new map on a clean top sheet with felt pens ( McHarg 1969 ) . |
| 17 | The trigger fish feeds on coral , crunching the stony branches and extracting the little polyps . |
| 18 | Leaning on rakes and watching the slow leaves sinking . |
| 19 | In a sense dance music and the corporate soulboy mentality has destroyed a lot of that — the industry is now based around DJs , recycling hits , remixes and following the latest trend in dance music . ’ |
| 20 | Health teaching does not necessarily imply an elaborate preplanned programme of instruction ; it does involve being alert to cues from the clients and assessing the appropriate time to discuss issues which they and the nurse consider important to the client 's circumstances . |
| 21 | He later recalled , ‘ crawling on sore hands and knees and reaching the actual coalface … |
| 22 | But what they 're not doing is spending loads of money on hospitals and houses and schools and raising the general living standards , they 're spending it all on heavy industry and armaments . |
| 23 | In sudden abandon she allowed her arms to creep up round his neck , her fingers to sink into the short hair at the back of his head while at the same time parting her lips and welcoming the exciting exploration of his tongue . |
| 24 | To the north the Celts were arising in central Europe , chiefly expanding northward , but also crossing the Alps to replace the Golasecca culture around the lakes and founding the Gaulish city of Mediolanum , so called because of its position in the centre of the Lombardy plain . |
| 25 | Unfortunately he pays little attention to the differences and the effect these have upon the implications of what we ascribe to animals whilst using the same forms of words . |
| 26 | Another possible reason is if the same file had previously been written on a 360K drive ; it 's wider track confuses the low capacity drive 's read heads when reading the higher capacity drive 's over-printed trace . |
| 27 | He had a long stick which he would place under their legs when doing the high kick to indicate where it should reach . |
| 28 | The optimal technique was perceived by a majority of subjects as providing the best solution , this result being supported by the analysis of solutions actually obtained . |
| 29 | Restitching uppers , patching holes or individually tailored adjustments , such as lifting up worn shoes or altering the sole level , present little difficulty . |
| 30 | 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 . |