Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia . |
| 2 | It has been argued earlier that the LEAs , both individually and collectively , failed to generate greater consensus on the school curriculum , but were there not alternative means of bringing together the various partners ( the LEAs , schools and their teachers , governors and parents , industry and commerce ; the churches ) to reach an agreement ? |
| 3 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 4 | With the aim of keeping only the Imperial Tobacco and Imperial Foods divisions , Hanson within a short period of time sold Imperial 's hotels and restaurants interests to Trust House Forte ( £190 million ) , Golden Wonder Crisps to Dalgety ( £87 million ) and Courage to the Australian company Elders IXL ( £1.4 billion ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the heart of the difficulty of delineating clearly the essential features of the Constitution is its ever-changing nature . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The French military authorities held that , since their army was incapable of invading even the demilitarised Rhineland , the reoccupation would make no real difference . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Though the differences were minute they were capable of calling forth the highest passions : great content if you did well , or jealousy and despair if you did badly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Final preparation of the bud consists of cutting square the top tip of the bud shield , and lightly bending back the other tongue end just enough for a tiny sliver of pith wood behind the eye to lift . |
| 14 | In the result , therefore , the adjudication of Mr. Dennis as bankrupt after the death of his wife did not have the effect of severing retrospectively the joint tenancy before her death . |
| 15 | Six alternative ways of linking together the daily prices between 1982 and 1989 were used , and some substantial differences in the results were observed . |
| 16 | Not for the first time , she wishes she had her sister 's confidence with men , her way of saying just the right thing in the right way to make them laugh , or listen , or love . |
| 17 | An ordinary delegate said he rejected the idea of blaming only the previous leaders for past mistakes . |
| 18 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 19 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 20 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 21 | In the midst of doing both the Round The Horne radio series and a couple of ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Ken was cast as Napoleon in a BBC TV version of the Anouilh play French Cricket , with Robert Helpmann playing Fouche , the Chief of Police . |
| 22 | So there is the option of doing both the walking tour or the bus tour . |
| 23 | I abandoned the idea altogether of taking either the sovereign state or that vague concept , the national society , as the unit of analysis . |
| 24 | According to Mordechai Vanunu , who is serving 18 years in solitary confinement , Israel has more than 200 nuclear warheads capable of reaching even the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | How can we allow any weakening in our resolve to give meaning to the watchword ‘ life before death ’ for the countless thousands , especially among Africa 's children , who have little chance of reaching even the first milestone ? |
| 26 | By the 1970s , the legislative process had altered enormously , but the only changes in House of Commons procedure have been to make it less capable of controlling even the old pattern of legislation . |
| 27 | The crisis came when the political system proved incapable of controlling either the competing elites or the alienated masses ( Post and Vickers 1973 ) . |
| 28 | Obviously , a special recording offers the opportunity of achieving precisely the right effect , but is considerably more expensive , even in these days of synthesizers , than library material . |
| 29 | There are even more ways of putting together the scrambled parts of a human . |
| 30 | Three joined together can form a ferry capable of carrying the Challenger tank , or they can be coupled to form a bridge capable of carrying even the heaviest Army loads . |