Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that bureaucratic actors are but one among a plurality of forces maintaining the growth of government rather than primary cause of its growth . |
| 2 | At the same time the government announced a package of new measures under which ( i ) the minimum wage was increased by 18 per cent from Nov. 18 ; ( ii ) a 40 per cent cut in income tax for those earning up to four times the minimum wage was to take effect in 1991 ; ( iii ) petrol prices were increased by 20 per cent and diesel oil , liquid gas and electricity prices by 30 per cent ; ( iv ) the peso 's rate of progressive devaluation against the US dollar was halved from 80 centavos to an " average " of 40 centavos a day , a depreciation rate of 5 per cent per year , as part of a anti-inflationary move aimed at fixing a future parity for the two currencies and stemming the flight of capital abroad . |
| 3 | It is accepting the lifestyle of Christ so that we may be usable for God 's glory . |
| 4 | Inhibiting the turnover of viruses often means inhibiting the host cells too . |
| 5 | It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ . |
| 6 | It is interesting to discover that many of the complicated variations used in handling the speech of others also appear when thought rather than speech is dealt with ( see Table 5.2 ) . |
| 7 | The Revenue Commissioners and senior officials of the Department of Finance also advised against the idea because of the difficulty in implementing the scheme and policing the flow of funds back into the country . |
| 8 | Mr Gallie , who is sponsoring the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill , to outlaw carrying knives in public , has asked Lord James Douglas Hamilton , the Scottish home affairs minister , for his comments and to inquire if such a television programme would contravene European law . |
| 9 | Following a subsequent period of stability a fresh wave of poor immigrants arrived between 1631 and 1660 , bringing the proportion of labourers up to 31·2 per cent . |
| 10 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 11 | In the Gaza Strip soldiers shot dead three Palestinians , bringing the number of deaths there in recent days to 11 . |
| 12 | a reorganisation of the agency involving increased delegation of functions to area level , bringing the delivery of service closer to the public |
| 13 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 14 | The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table . |
| 15 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 16 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 17 | Furthermore , understanding the acquisition of honour solely through a class analysis of Pisticci would miss the many subtleties engaged in by the residents . |
| 18 | EC Evans-Lombe QC , sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge , referred to the ‘ relevant ’ part of s 349(1) : ‘ … the person by or through whom any payment … is made shall , on making the payment , deduct out of it a sum representing the amount of income thereon ’ . |
| 19 | He sprayed it all over , hosing the stream of shells back and forth ; then let the machine gun hang loose in his hand . |
| 20 | The new organisation will be more akin to an organism , adopting the language of biology rather than the machine . |
| 21 | Waltz insists on explaining the behaviour of states solely at the level of the international system . |
| 22 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 23 | Erm I think that certain elements of the structure plan erm strategy have been well documented er , the environmental issues , erm high priority to conservation , erm protection of the county 's natural resources , of development restraint and relating the scale of development much more closely to local needs . |
| 24 | Julia uses wit as a means of deflecting the topic of conversation away from serious issues by shifting the referent of a scholarly discussion to the more immediate social situation : |
| 25 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 26 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 27 | By keeping the pride of achievement entirely to yourself and letting only the foul consequences of your activities out on the community ! |
| 28 | Half a million different laws ( although no one knows for certain how many ) have insured that the legal system is rigged , keeping the cost of formality far beyond the reach of the average small Peruvain entrepreneur . |
| 29 | The government has a specific policy of keeping the cost of utilities down to help the business community maximise profits . |
| 30 | When insulin was introduced its use in less severe form was continued with the intention of keeping the dose of insulin down and controlling the blood glucose . |