Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 2 | Bad debts of 2 per cent of turnover seemed high , and JR decided to adopt the view that the acid test for a credit controller would be the cost of employing him when compared with the reduction of bad debts and overdraft charges , which should follow the appointment of a competent credit manager . |
| 3 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 4 | Now work out the following by forming an equation and solving it as shown in the last example . |
| 5 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 6 | v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food the Court of Appeal , while regarding itself as bound by the view that Article 86 gave rise to a claim for damages , held that another directly applicable provision , Article 30 ( dealing with quantitative restrictions on imports ) attracted only the remedy of judicial review . |
| 7 | Mr Goodson , who became interested in the sonar capacity of dolphins after hearing one while swimming off the Welsh coast , has experimented with various shapes of sound reflectors . |
| 8 | The only way the trust can be given effect is by construing it as charged on the intestate heir in favour of some other person . |
| 9 | Economic growth in Latin America has accumulated benefits in the hands of a few , rather than distributing them as predicted by the modernists . |