Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of examining this and extracting the full mechanism would be nearly impossible of achievement . |
| 2 | The Chinese Wall is a self styled regulatory mechanism aimed at stemming the flow of material information from one department in a conglomerate to another and resolving the legal problems associated with conflicts of interest generally . |
| 3 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 4 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 5 | Some commentators have seen these as representing the true genius of American station architecture . |
| 6 | His new found maturity on and off the court is impressing many and diluting the controversial image he has carried with him since turning professional four years ago . |
| 7 | In all the examples cited so far the dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition has taken the form of showing that certain procedures abolish the latter while leaving the former intact . |
| 8 | Fortunately , samples from recent excavations have subsequently become available , and the project has now produced twenty radiocarbon results : more than doubling the previous total for actual skeletons from British Beaker burials . |
| 9 | Once you have understood how the machine creates slip , tuck and knit stitches , the rest is just a progression of these , involving very little more than using the electronic pattern selection . |
| 10 | In most cases conversion meant little more than adjusting the overhead wires to allow for two conductors instead of one . |
| 11 | The idea of a book each a year from the three editors seemed to calm him and I am sure he realizes that this involves more than reading the one script . |
| 12 | Mr Franco had been branded as a distracted caretaker , doing little more than warming the presidential chair he inherited last October , when Fernando Collor was ousted in disgrace . |
| 13 | It sounds as if we are doing little more than making the best of a bad job . |
| 14 | We can begin with the crucial , if rather obvious , point that understanding what people mean by what they say is not the same as understanding the linguistic expressions they use in saying it . |
| 15 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 16 | Take away a minus three , is the same as adding the three . |
| 17 | So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand . |