Example sentences of "of [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With most of its inhabitants either dead or financially ruined by the eruption , there was no hope at all of salvaging the buried town , and it was abandoned . |
| 2 | The truth is , that the whole long history of religion is littered with evidence that it is this very failure continually to revise , supplement and , where necessary to ruthlessly reject the scriptures , that has brought about , in this late twentieth century , some of obvious that there can be no real hope of salvaging the old order . |
| 3 | Experiments have been made with other ways of attaching the printed pages to the external case . |
| 4 | The programmes of those early years explored the whole range of possibilities offered by civil nuclear power and paved the way for the growth of a domestic industry capable of mastering the entire fuel cycle from the mine through enrichment to reprocessing . |
| 5 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 6 | Builders must finish the job in a proper and workmanlike fashion and must use suitable materials — you have a claim if these principles are not adhered to , and if you can establish shoddy or negligent work it is possible that the courts will award damages for inconvenience caused in addition to the cost of rectifying the initial problem . |
| 7 | This has caused accountancy specialists to send out reams of paper telling us their software is capable of handling the new EC regulations on VAT . |
| 8 | This example also demonstrates the basic principle of handling the repetitive elements : probes in the region containing this element are deleted one by one until two non-repetitive probes on both sides of the region are found which are connected by a minimum number of clones , linking these probes into a contig . |
| 9 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 10 | The defendant , Ballay and Jatindur Rai , another employee of Bennetts Retail , were arrested and jointly tried on an indictment alleging two counts of handling the stolen cheques against Ballay ( counts 1 and 2 ) , one count of conspiracy ( count 3 , which was not proceeded with ) and two counts of theft of the electrical goods against all the defendants ( counts 4 and 5 ) . |
| 11 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 12 | The goal is a practical , affordable and manufacturable diamond multichip module capable of handling the thermal management problems of current and next-generation high-power microprocessors , which increasingly exhibit the properties of furnaces and microwave ovens . |
| 13 | The goal is a practical , affordable and manufacturable diamond multichip module capable of handling the thermal management problems of current and next-generation high-power microprocessors , which increasingly exhibit the properties of furnaces and microwave ovens . |
| 14 | And I 'm smart , and hard , and self-contained , and capable of handling the social situations , and beautiful , and sexy , and modest too of course ! |
| 15 | Consider , for example , the criticisms of transformations by Bresnan ( 1982 ) as a means of handling the active/passive relationship and her alternative proposals ; on the other hand , Gazdar and his colleagues ( 1985 ) have proposed a completely different framework for handling these relationships . |
| 16 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 17 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 18 | Whether it is possible to generate a political discourse capable of articulating the distinctive needs and historical experiences of black Europeans remains to be seen . |
| 19 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |
| 20 | The chapter on molecular modelling dismisses much of three dimensional molecular visualisation with the comment , ‘ Besides the trivial operation of rotating the whole structure or selected substructures around a given bond ’ , and goes on to discuss comparison of molecular structures . |
| 21 | ‘ EVES ’ ( estimated vessel equivalent method ) is a means of quantifying the original numbers of pots represented . |
| 22 | His health continued to decline and within two years of masterminding the Liberal victory at the 1892 general election , so enabling W. E. Gladstone to form his fourth ministry , he resigned all his offices with the party . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're in the process of targeting the other areas where we can use it , ’ he said , noting that others should be added sometime during this year . |
| 24 | But firearms enthusiasts , who shoot for pleasure , have accused politicians of targeting the wrong people . |
| 25 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 26 | Even where elected representatives are aware of the vote-catching potential of courting the ethnic communities , they have given little thought to the educational implications of their policies , and even less effort to ensure that the policies are implemented . |
| 27 | The difficulty of rooting the universal tree of life using protein trees is also emphasized by our recent analysis of glutamate dehydrogenase phylogeny . |
| 28 | Delaney 's hand was on the verge of touching the blackened , grotesque head when , without warning , the scene was bathed in the harsh , piercing light of a flare . |
| 29 | First of all , there have been important advances in experimental methods : single cell recordings with exquisitely fine electrodes ; novel methods of imaging the internal structure of neurons and the connections between them ; cell culture techniques permitting the growth and development of nervous systems to be studied in great detail ; and sophisticated computational and statistical analysis of data permitting better mathematical modelling of large and small scale events in the nervous system and its functional connections . |
| 30 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |