Example sentences of "at [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marketers have proved adept at catching the mood of the age range sixteen to twenty four , supplying products like jeans , cola drinks , music , cars and motorcycles which become the mode , the " in thing " , the product to have . |
| 2 | The dust particles might be better at catching the wind , like fluff on a willow seed . |
| 3 | Every other Government in the European Community know that , for months past , the British Government 's negotiating energies have been directed not at shaping the future of the Community but at papering over the cracks in the Tory party . |
| 4 | The job losses were part of a masterplan aimed at transforming the structure of the oil group . |
| 5 | It was funny how good Adam had been at naming things , the rooms in the house , the house itself even , or at naming the idea of it , the concept , Ecalpemos . |
| 6 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 7 | She drew the line at mowing the lawn . |
| 8 | On Sept. 13 the government approved a new economic plan presented by Finance Minister Moda'i and aimed at financing the massive influx of Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel . |
| 9 | Current efforts are aimed at finalising the gas price and sales contracts and gaining approval for the field 's development plan . |
| 10 | We want to ease the adjustment from the present price support mechanism towards market prices and direct support aimed at assisting the farming industry in transition and at environmental and social goals . |
| 11 | Few , certainly , espoused revolutionary ideas in 1931 ; the party 's immediate task , it was generally agreed , was to press for legislation aimed at assisting the working class and , in particular , the impoverished landless labourers of the south . |
| 12 | It will be followed by a " demonstration plant " aimed at proving the commercially-viability of the fast-breeder route . |
| 13 | Some 42% of them thought that economic liberals were best at handling the economy ( against 18% who thought social democrats were ) ; and 50% thought unions should be independent of social-democratic parties ( though 39% thought the opposite ) . |
| 14 | Mr Bruce Page , of accountancy recruitment specialists Llambias Douglas , said : ‘ All the big firms are suffering equally — just some are better at handling the public relations side of it . ’ |
| 15 | By this time he was regarded by MI6 as one of its most trusted officers who was very adept at handling the most complex and dangerous operations . |
| 16 | He was brilliant at handling the most difficult client . |
| 17 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 18 | There is a problem getting people to see the products but they have a mutually beneficial relationship with Palm , who are experts at handling the Gore-Tex products and are easy to get to down the M4 . |
| 19 | Conflicting interpretations of this move saw it either as a sign that the armed forces were no longer capable of confronting internal subversion , or as an astute move aimed at allowing the guerrillas to save face and disarm before taking up seats in the Constitutional Assembly . |
| 20 | The government on Dec. 27 announced that negotiations with the United States aimed at allowing the withdrawal of US forces from Subic Bay naval base to be phased over a three-year period had broken down . |
| 21 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 22 | His answer was the adoption during 1934–5 of a ‘ Popular Front ’ policy for resisting fascism ; this involved Communist support for ‘ bourgeois democratic ’ governments threatened by fascism , together with Soviet efforts at courting the diplomatic friendship of the western European democracies . |
| 23 | It aims at binding the members of the community together in a libidinal way as well and employs every means to that end . |
| 24 | Most of the visual ideas were imported but he found Ethel Helliwell brilliant at organizing the execution of them . |
| 25 | The the thing that er sticks out is that at time there was no women organizing the union and er I had a go at organizing the women and I was very successful . |
| 26 | Reforms aimed at refashioning the welfare state , so that it acts as a floor on which the underclass can build by their own efforts , rather than a ceiling through which it is impossible for them to pass , are considered in Part IV . |
| 27 | The present concern for sport as polling day approaches is typical of how politicians are adept at using the subject for short-term gain while ignoring its long-term problems . |
| 28 | Although the use of outside contractors will speed up the regulatory process , critics have expressed concern at using the industry to police itself . |
| 29 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 30 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |