Example sentences of "to [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are close to mastering the slow pirouette , you may find this to be easier since the model is always pointing into wind . |
| 2 | It sanctioned the sexualization of women by men , making them ‘ a thing , an instrument devoted to appeasing the sexual passion of the man ’ . |
| 3 | The falsificationist is committed to preferring the first . |
| 4 | In contrast to filtering the single-copy hybridisation data , false negatives have a higher effect on the correct determination of patterns . |
| 5 | Through these companies , GDA is committed to realising the economic potential of the priority regeneration areas of Castlemilk , Drumchapel , the East-End , Glasgow North ( Springburn ) , Gorbals , Easterhouse and Govan . |
| 6 | Matthias ' father , János Hunyadi was voivode of Transylvania and devoted his considerable talents to halting the Turkish advance into Europe . |
| 7 | Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax . |
| 8 | The RSFSR , Ukraine and Kazakhstan had objected to allowing the federal government to impose taxes , demanding that the union budget should be financed from taxes collected by individual republics . |
| 9 | The methods and their paraphernalia are all ‘ stageprops ’ , aids to contacting the same force and channelling the mind in that direction . |
| 10 | John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in . |
| 11 | Haig was made an earl in 1919 and after the war devoted much of his time to organizing the British Legion and to work on behalf of disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 12 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 13 | She admits to touching the Black Prince , so its suitability as a weapon could well have occurred to her then . |
| 14 | Oddly , the think-tank that seems closest to catching the next intellectual wave is the one whose collapse seemed most logical a year ago . |
| 15 | When it comes to using the right tools for the job it is also important to realise that the final output from a desktop publishing system is not always the end product . |
| 16 | But there were serious objections to using the videotaped interview as a complete substitute for the child 's evidence in chief at the trial , because of the unsatisfactory nature of the questioning and because it would cause difficulties for the prosecution . |
| 17 | Erm so that response to using the southern bypass the A one , certainly some traffic might find that heading north will find that attractive . |
| 18 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Consideration should be given to using the following sources of information as the means to identify targets : — |
| 20 | This should mean that pesticides will last longer , because they could be used in other areas before resistance spreads , and researchers could switch back to using the original pesticide once resistance has been wiped out , she said . |
| 21 | Terns , redshanks and sand plovers were also at risk , together with birds accustomed to using the coastal mudflats as resting points on seasonal migrations between Siberia and East Africa . |
| 22 | From a practical point of view , the introduction of tags saved half a day on the production of a 24 page newsletter compared to using the previous version of PageMaker . |
| 23 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |
| 24 | We will begin by discussing the role of sugar puckering which we have recently suggested is central to characterising the fine structure of the DNA double helix ( 17 ) . |
| 25 | The goals of the first transition phase , the first series of internal tariff reductions and measures designed to reduce the differences in the external tariffs of the Six , had been achieved without too much hardship or dispute , and the Commission was looking forward with confidence to shortening the planned duration of the second transition phase . |
| 26 | It 's early days yet , but we 're really looking forward to seeing the finished article . |
| 27 | And Coun Dot Long , chairwoman of Darlington Council 's recreation committee , has revealed she is looking forward to seeing the controversial production of Swan Lake at the Civic Theatre . |
| 28 | The magazine applauded the theory and looked forward to seeing the new machine in action . |
| 29 | I must say I am looking forward to seeing the new babies . |
| 30 | I shall look forward to seeing the first edition , then . |