Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — It 's rock weekend at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club with top group Six of the Best providing the entertainment tonight , tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 2 | In general it seems that the greater the learning difficulties , the more didactic is the approach and the more controlling the relationship . |
| 3 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 4 | The greater the disparity between what teachers want to do , what they are being asked to do , and what they can do , the greater the demands , and the more demanding the situation . |
| 5 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 6 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 7 | Now this may not be characteristic of modern Christianity — more the pity for it — but I do believe that it is a just reflection of New Testament Christianity , because in the earliest preaching the emphasis falls on his resurrection . |
| 8 | The manager declined to be interviewed though he did say he 's no longer selling the game . |
| 9 | No more implanting the virus from within , no more attempting to gatecrash a terrain that no longer really belongs to us ( whatever it may once have been , simple demographic change has turned pop into global light entertainment ) . |
| 10 | TOK AN Suddenly divining the nature and imminence of old age in one 's thirty-first year |
| 11 | At an early briefing the company said a high-end PS/2 Model 95 will be able to support 40 dumb terminals all carrying out transaction processing work — and that the limitation is imposed , not by processing power , but by the number of terminal adaptors that can be crammed into the back of the server . |