Example sentences of "the [adj] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , there was one little overdubbing room in Air studios which was tiny — it was about as big as an armchair — but we used to put the AC30 in there and put the mic facing the window and get this amazing sound . |
| 2 | after two years on the market-after reducing the price by 25 per cent and waiting nearly two years . |
| 3 | In one sense all indirect taxation is hardly equitable because it falls on the rich and the poor , like the old saying the rain , it raineth every day upon the rich and just and unjust fellow . |
| 4 | I refer to the article by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn ( ‘ The wronged losing the right to redress , ’ 4 March ) concerning the Government 's proposals to reduce the financial eligibility limits for legal aid . |
| 5 | Now work out the following using the method of the last example . |
| 6 | A poet in the 870s imagined Charles the Bald controlling the wheel of fortune , throwing down one man , and raising up another . |
| 7 | New varieties of cotton grow more rapidly and quickly pass through their most vulnerable phase ( when the carpal surrounding the cotton is thin ) . |
| 8 | The purity of natural form is expressed in the brick squinch arches forming the pendentive supporting the dome |
| 9 | But out he went and plopped down in the rough surrounding the green until , finally , a marshal suggested that he might be trespassing . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax made the point that the rundown of long-stay care for the elderly in our health service and the move towards the elderly having the opportunity to go only into private nursing care is to be deprecated . |
| 11 | Of course , often when moral arguments such as the above favouring the regulation of insider dealing are advocated , those who support unfettered dealing shift the emphasis to questions of economic efficiency , proof , and enforcement . |
| 12 | It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer . |
| 13 | Predictably , while the government with one hand is distorting their expenditure and creating unnecessary expense , it is with the other reducing the discretion available to councils to raise their own resources . |
| 14 | After the necessary shunting the train returned eastwards around midday . |