Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 2 | Given that the chances of establishing oneself in sport are extremely small regardless of colour , this is a rather dangerous channelling of objectives . |
| 3 | Given that the process of determining the scope of the legislation ( illegality ) is not self-executing , the courts will often rely on certain substantive principles ( fiduciary duty , etc. ) in determining the ambit of the legitimate statutory purposes . |
| 4 | And you 'll remember that that the definition of gating is simply that channels switch between open and closed states , they gate open or closed . |
| 5 | The 1988 General Household Survey found that in general , the further north or west the region , the lower the proportion of cohabiting couples . |
| 6 | One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board . |
| 7 | 9.2 The Funding of Housing Associations |
| 8 | During the period 1967–73 the difficulty of finding sufficient common ground between the belligerents , even within the terms of 242 , became glaringly apparent . |
| 9 | They accepted — and ultimately so did she — that they would have to retreat in their domestic fight for secularism if they were to keep alive the hope of making peace with the Arabs . |
| 10 | The peoples of the sundered realm of Tiranoc still keep alive the art of fighting from a fast-moving chariot . |
| 11 | The scattered peoples of the sundered realm of Tiranoc still keep alive the art of fighting from a fast-moving chariot . |
| 12 | Fig. 6.9 The AL of maintaining a safe environment within the model for nursing |
| 13 | ... 21 AT London Scottish the role of providing rugby opportunities to Scots in London is still important , but in times of league realism , racial purity has had to give way to the expediency of also running a successful 1st XV . |
| 14 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 15 | So that means this the effect of having this extra gravity means that the extra gravity is n't equally dispersed in the whole system the extra gravity is located in one particular spot where the moon is . |
| 16 | Moreoever , even if one were to do this the fact of setting up the control and the experimental groups could well introduce a note of artificiality into the experiment . |
| 17 | This reveals neither cathode ( tungsten 0.75 mm diameter ) nor output loop , but makes clear the method of incorporating the coupled resonators into a small solid copper anode block . |
| 18 | This authority makes clear the propriety of using taxing masters as part of the machinery of the court to quantify disputed items of costs in an account being taken by the court . |
| 19 | He carried into 1972 the kind of driving which had made his reputation in 1971 , and if you study the fact-sheets for that year — the inaugural race at Paul Ricard in France is a good example — you will see Emerson well back on the grid and yet prevailing in the end to finish well enough . |
| 20 | The background to the Dobry Reports has already been indicated ; in arithmetical terms , between 1968 and 1972 the number of planning decisions by local authorities in England and Wales increased from 425,000 to 615,000 , while the number of appeals rose even more dramatically . |
| 21 | In the past , the surgeon would automatically snip out the affected tubes , but this could leave you with half the chance of conceiving later , or completely infertile . |
| 22 | Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random . |
| 23 | Any service is possible in PR work which is more than half the fun of doing public relations . |
| 24 | That 's half the fun of having Kinder eggs . |
| 25 | Different languages lead to different task formulations , and half the art of searching lies in how you pose the task . |
| 26 | The seller offered to meet half the cost of repairing the dynamo . |
| 27 | Budapest Municipality will pay half the cost of fitting a converter , but many may prefer to upgrade to new cars . |
| 28 | Where before , half the amusement of seeing the New FADS play was seeing whether the five unlikely groovers could carry off their groove thing without sounding like A Certain Ratio after one too many spliffs , now there is a confidence , and with it comes a hint of threat . |
| 29 | It is easily forgotten how old the task of interpreting is , but how new the profession of interpreter is . |
| 30 | For some the strain of living together without legal ties leads to considerable anguish . |