Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's a picture you build up by doing things like appraisals , assessments , things like that using the other skills . |
| 2 | the complexity of corporate structures , which often consist of so many subsidiaries and specialized divisions , within and beyond national boundaries , that unknotting the tangled thread of responsibility becomes difficult , if not impossible , thus making the view that ‘ no one was to blame ’ easy to accept ; |
| 3 | The uses to which equipment was put , however , were very limited with few realising the full potential of the investment . |
| 4 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 5 | Part of the critic 's task in the nineteenth century , as now , was to interpret art for the lay public ; but what , artists asked themselves , if we interpreted our own work ? from such a thought sprang statements of artistic aims and manifestos , some using the new device of naming a group with a progressive title , such as futurism . |
| 6 | Mammals keep track of this using the pineal gland which also regulates their bodies ' circadian rhythm . |
| 7 | A check on this using the chi-squared significance test ( see Moroney or any standard statistical text for further details ) shows that there is no significant difference between the two . |
| 8 | Hilton defines this using the traditional mirror image : " for soule is bot a mirrour , in whilk schalt see God gostly " ( 30.102v. – 253 ) . |
| 9 | We exemplify this using the same matrix A as above ; also , we adopt the device of reducing at each stage a homologous element ( in this case the bottom element ) to unity , beginning with co = e4 . |
| 10 | But in this meeting the absolute difference between the two sides remains : it is not dissolved away in a ‘ coincidence of opposites ’ , an ‘ identity in difference ’ , an ‘ eternal God-man unity ’ . |
| 11 | Until this meeting the provincial administration had refused to consider holding negotiations on the rent strike with anyone other than the township 's black councillors , who had been elected in an 11.5 per cent turnout in October 1988 [ see p. 36333 ] . |
| 12 | At this meeting the reported service levels will be confirmed by the New OED Project Director , any system or operational problems will be identified , and action plans for resolution agreed . |
| 13 | When the nuclei of light elements join together or ‘ fuse ’ , energy is released ; what is more , the amount is more than the energy needed to push these nuclei into one another overcoming the electrical repulsion , so if we could accomplish this efficiently we would have a plentiful and dean supply of energy . |
| 14 | On Nov. 9 , the 54th anniversary of Kristallnacht ( when the Nazis began a nationwide pogrom against Jewish people in Germany in 1938 ) , over 100,000 people , some wearing the yellow Star of David , marched peacefully through Rome in protest against anti-Semitic and racist attacks ; protests and commemorations took place in many other cities . |
| 15 | A flotilla of small boats arrived off the coast from South Wales , a few braving the rocky shallows to land . |
| 16 | Thus a sweater with front and back in tuck stitch and sleeves in stocking stitch would have to be split into two files , one containing the front and back pieces and another containing the two sleeves . |
| 17 | At the moment there is vigorous theoretical argument among people who study animal signals , with some taking the extreme position that signals carry no accurate information about the state of the signaller and others arguing that the signals are extremely reliable . |
| 18 | Again in Speyside there was some disagreement with the general view , with half choosing the late time as an option . |
| 19 | Better , then , to start off down the wrong valley and take the road along the Gave d'Aspe as far as Escot ; you can do this avoiding the main road , because there is a minor road out of Oloron going all the way along the eastern side of the valley as far as Escot . |
| 20 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 21 | Half carrying , half trailing the inert figure , they reached the factory door , then edged their way in and laid the unconscious form on the floor . |
| 22 | This extraordinary vision in the Mijas Golf estate offers a wide variety of superbly finished homes , each capturing the real spirit of the Andalucian craft tradition . |
| 23 | It is now more important than ever , in an economic climate as unfavourable to education as the present , with attempts at major educational reconstruction in which the special needs of children may well be lost sight of , that developing the consultative role and process are seen as an important way forward . |
| 24 | There are technical terms for each of the six parts , the first letter of each forming the mnemonic CATWOE . |
| 25 | This section is possible precisely because the unity of the whole is an expressive totality , that is ‘ a totality all of whose parts are so many ‘ total parts ’ each expressing the others , and each expressing the social totality that contains them , because each in itself contains in the immediate form of its expression the essence of the totality itself ’ ( 94 ) . |
| 26 | Once again in exotic lands , Primotif is a collection of motifs and artwork from tribal cultures around the world ; strong , simple , dramatic and very much echoing the current preoccupation with all things ethnic . |
| 27 | We fused the gene encoding an antibody fragment directed against a hapten with that encoding the viral envelope protein ( Pr80 env ) of the ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus . |
| 28 | The largest shareholder in the mine , the Australian CRA group , had recently warned , however , that reopening the mothballed mine could cost in excess of US$100 million . |
| 29 | On other occasions they occupy respective quarters of a pavement ( in which case there will be not one but four pairs ) each surrounding the central medallion which is then subsidiary . |
| 30 | If two constables spent ten hours each investigating the false report before discovering the truth then the total hours wasted would be twenty . |