Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 2 | It points out that strategies for pursuing the general interest that seem obvious in one generation will come to be questioned in another , and so will be changed naturally , from within the judicial process , not outside it . |
| 3 | A move such as raising the real value of national insurance benefits , and of child benefit in particular , will , I believe , begin to change the psychological attitude of claimants , by allowing the extraordinary effort and intelligence that is currently absorbed into ‘ working the system ’ to be channelled into transforming the status of many currently caught in means-tested assistance . |
| 4 | By allowing the open production and distribution of explicit sexual imagery , we are taking the risk that some of the images produced will be unacceptable . |
| 5 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 6 | Again , this all helps with cementing the initial relationship and if the first impression is a good one , the practitioner is off to a flying start , which could help if there are difficulties at a later stage with the transaction . |
| 7 | Its application is much wider and encompassing the entire organisation and its various external and internal ‘ publics ’ . |
| 8 | Some geochemists have suspected that a much grander geochemical cycle , one encompassing the entire crust and mantle , is also at work in the planet . |
| 9 | Easily Accessible : The Old Rectory is ideally place for touring the area , and offers access to many splendid walks , including those encompassing the coastal path and Bodmin Moor . |
| 10 | The methods and their paraphernalia are all ‘ stageprops ’ , aids to contacting the same force and channelling the mind in that direction . |
| 11 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 12 | In the interests of maintaining the friendly atmosphere and camaraderie of crowd and players that has been the hallmark of rugby union above all sports for so very long , we must minimise the confrontational aspects of these occasions , whilst respecting and enjoying the traditions and pride of the individual countries involved . |
| 13 | According to the report , the proposed staffing structures for the projected new unitary authorities do not appear to be capable of maintaining the current level and quality of services and management practices . |
| 14 | Using this method the idling current can be limited to very low values whilst maintaining the large voltage and current swings required to drive a loudspeaker . |
| 15 | A sure sign of its quality , many Citalia guests return here year after year , praising the warm welcome and the excellent service they receive . |
| 16 | In the sonnets on the Rival Poet , for instance , whether the first or second person dominates , the technique of praising the other poet while denigrating oneself is clearly ironic , as J. W. Lever 's discussion has shown . |
| 17 | In 1903 a German syndicate began building the present sanatorium and the Hospital of Marmeleiros . |
| 18 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 19 | One school of thought concentrates on defining the conditions for creating power by building the internal market and thus overcoming the ‘ market failure ’ in many cross-border transactions . |
| 20 | The council is n't building the nuclear submarine or the underground cavern itself . |
| 21 | Economies of scale mean that size does still matter : to succeed , companies have to grow while constantly guarding against building the sclerotic bureaucracy that bolsters a sense of infallibility that was IBM 's ultimate downfall . |
| 22 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 23 | The chapter on molecular modelling dismisses much of three dimensional molecular visualisation with the comment , ‘ Besides the trivial operation of rotating the whole structure or selected substructures around a given bond ’ , and goes on to discuss comparison of molecular structures . |
| 24 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 25 | Although a military coup seems unlikely in these democratic times , Mr Kim does not want to risk rattling the top brass or provoking earnest young turks unless , or until , a glaring new scandal emerges — and one may be brewing over fighter-aircraft procurements . |
| 26 | In addition , a number of distinguished judges have admitted to breaching the exclusionary rule and looking at Hansard in order to seek the intention of Parliament . |
| 27 | This discussion is continued in the next chapter where , after deriving the IS-LM model and considering the contribution of Keynes to economic theory and policy , we turn our attention once more to the monetarist challenge to Keynesian economics . |
| 28 | Camilleri and Fealey , recently using the thermoregulatory test and a quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test , showed in eight patients with gastrointestinal proglems that an idiopathic autonomic denervation may be an aertiological factor in non-organic intestinal dysmotility . |
| 29 | The theories reviewed in the previous section clearly divide along these lines , with world-system theories using the latter concept while regulationist theories use the former . |
| 30 | Er during the stages er we did look at ways of er providing relief to the A sixty one erm by er using the southern bypass and then any of the inner northern routes . |