Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pity he could not have read Alec Wilder 's American Popular Song ( 1972 ) which , using basically the same musical criteria as Adorno — derived from European bourgeois art music — could have been designed as a riposte to his view of this repertory |
| 2 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 3 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 4 | Staff of the Tectonics and Database Group ( bringing together the former Deep Geology Group and the Land Survey database staff ) continued to provide much specialist input to the multidisciplinary mapping projects that are a major part of the BGS Core programme . |
| 5 | Somalia , independent since 1960 , was formed by bringing together the former British Somaliland Protectorate and the UN Trust Territory of Somalia ( once an Italian colony ) . |
| 6 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 7 | In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII the Council , benefiting from the inexperience of the new King , probably gained weight while pursuing much the same business as before . |
| 8 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |
| 9 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | ‘ They are in exactly the same place , walking down the same path ’ — he paused , pulling back a cuff to expose his stone , circle-sized Rolex — ‘ some four thousand years ago . |
| 11 | He is an expert in grading wools that come from all over the world and blending together the many different types for yarn production . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 13 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 14 | applying precisely the same rules to your own contract . |
| 15 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 16 | So the project was expanded to include building an expert system for another , similar circuit board using exactly the same technique . |
| 17 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 18 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
| 19 | Hines ( 1972 ) , for example , using exactly the same words as McKeever and Huling ( 1971a ) replicated the latter 's finding of a right field superiority in bilateral recognition when a digit was presented at fixation but obtained a significant left field advantage without the digit . |
| 20 | This is shown most dramatically by the results of studies in which , using exactly the same stimulus material , opposite field advantages have been obtained according to the task requirements ( Klatzky , 1972 ; Seamon and Gazzaniga , 1973 ; Robertshaw and Sheldon , 1976 ; Niederbuhl and Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | But , in this case , the printer is using exactly the same font obviously , for s and f . |
| 22 | Is there anything that 's fundamental changed with I mean we 're using exactly the same formulation . |
| 23 | Aye well you see it we used to it does n't matter how she jumped and rolled , we were eating just the same . |
| 24 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 25 | She was expressing much the same sentiments as Bob Boothby had expressed in his last letter to me , and which I have heard other old people express too . |
| 26 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 27 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 28 | In any one place the two species mimic each other , looking much the same ; but in different places the members of a species differ : both species vary geographically in the same manner . |
| 29 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 30 | The wheat went on for thousands of miles , looking just the same everywhere . |