Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Your camcorder 's microphone will no doubt do a first-rate job of picking up the general sound atmosphere , or ambience . |
| 32 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 33 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 34 | The problems of sifting out the valuable and proven ingredients of native medicines are formidable . |
| 35 | In the course of writing out the 18 April document the deceased asked what ‘ Sharon 's , ’ i.e. Miss Hughes 's , address was . |
| 36 | ‘ He does n't approve of satisfying one 's curiosity or of seeking out the notorious . |
| 37 | To the pleasures of new friendship , Coleridge , on his return to Stowey , added the prospect of meeting again the loyal and longstanding friend of his youth , Charles Lamb . |
| 38 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 39 | At the heart of the difficulty of delineating clearly the essential features of the Constitution is its ever-changing nature . |
| 40 | The money is a small fraction of the estimated $1100 million cost of cleaning up the stricken reactor . |
| 41 | Lisa Buckingham writes : Chemical companies have finally secured insurance to help them pay the costs of cleaning up the long term damage they do to the environment . |
| 42 | The National Consumer Council has called for industry and motorists to pay more towards the cost of cleaning up the British water supply . |
| 43 | Just as aware as Napoleon III that royal connections could be made to serve a diplomatic turn , Bismarck had used Princess Victoria , wife of the Crown Prince Frederick , as a means of sounding out the British government as to its possible reactions to Leopold 's candidature . |
| 44 | When the time comes to settle your Access account , you have the option of paying off the whole amount owing , without it costing you a penny in interest , or of repaying a portion of it and paying interest on what is left . |
| 45 | The first is that of narrowing down the causal relation so as not to include , as being in the same self , mental states that belong to different selves . |
| 46 | To ensure the achievement of that objective he stressed the importance of informing fully the post-war generation of these basic principles and of securing the co-operation of the universities through their extra-mural departments . |
| 47 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 48 | The best way to understand it , in my view , is as a way of separating out the different impulses represented in today 's highly varied feminist thinking . |
| 49 | the tax effect of adding back the exceptional German stock provision ; and |
| 50 | The French military authorities held that , since their army was incapable of invading even the demilitarised Rhineland , the reoccupation would make no real difference . |
| 51 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 52 | The main problem about this option is the logistic one of getting together the hundreds of different catalogues ( especially those of the small publishers ) necessary to ensure comprehensiveness . |
| 53 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 54 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 55 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 56 | Bourassa 's attitude coincided with opinion poll evidence which suggested that , while a majority of Quebec 's population currently supported sovereignty for the province , there was growing concern about the potential negative effects of breaking up the Canadian federation . |
| 57 | A good way of breaking up the detailed explanation is to add a quotation or two in this section . |
| 58 | It is thought that the head secretes a substance which is capable of breaking down the outer layer of the ovum . |
| 59 | The Chancellor , the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , and the Prime Minister have the task of pointing out the financial realities of life to their colleagues . |
| 60 | ‘ But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious . |