Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That said , there is a playful yet authoritative personality here , which makes the quasi-erotic experience of pressing down the plunger ( an action that the semiotician of coffee Pierre Beaudidlez has described as having an ‘ ecstatic rightness ’ ) especially piquant . |
| 2 | Although Sollas referred to natural selection , he elsewhere ridiculed Darwin 's theory as incapable of explaining how the higher types were actually produced . |
| 3 | When the winds are southerly the drift would be in the reverse direction , but the waves responsible , being of smaller size due to limited fetch and generally lighter winds , would be capable of moving only the finer material back towards West Bay . |
| 4 | The ethnography was a means of observing how the wider patterns of society — its inequalities and histories of domination — flow through patterns of living and thinking which seem so ordinary . |
| 5 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |