Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no one much remaining to hear this — only Garvey , Lucie unbridling the horses , and Izzie and Gabriel standing by . |
| 2 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 3 | Ragusa became an important entrepôt , which , in the words of Sir Paul Rycant , a shrewd English observer , writing in 1668 , was ‘ the port for transmitting the manufactures of Venice , and all Italy , into Turkey ’ , and in return received the necessities of life for distribution to the rest of Europe , often in its own ships . |
| 4 | ARGO is controlled by an IBM-PC , and will operate in a wide range of environments , storing data locally on floppy disk or transmitting the values to a collection site via telephone , radio or satellite links . |
| 5 | As mentioned earlier , the HMIs took an altogether more sophisticated view of the relationship of education to society and to social change , and like the Education , Science and Arts Committee ( 1981 ) saw a conflict between transmitting the values of society and preparing young people to change those values . |
| 6 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 7 | A SATELLITE channel transmitting the proceedings of the British Parliament and overseas legislatures has been suggested by the Astra satellite company , Marketing Week reports . |
| 8 | Kaplan 's theory would seem to be the-more plausible of the two , in that it does not depend on parents transmitting the results of their learning to their children ; instead , it can be explained purely in terms of human curiosity . |
| 9 | Effective consumer target marketing depends in part on finding or forecasting the areas of highest sales potential for any particular product . |
| 10 | I thought yer said yer was bringin' the seats . |
| 11 | Their list peddlers are hawking the names of 21,000 attendees , the lists with exhibitors excluded . |
| 12 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 13 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 14 | Journalists are quickly caught up in pursuing the stories they generate , with an invigorating rush of adrenalin . |
| 15 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 16 | The operation of the communities of interest has varied from seeking to preserve neighbourhood cohesion or status quo ( Fineview and Charles Street Kirkbride ) to pursuing the interests of an exclusive and unrepresentative group within the neighbourhood ( such as Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny and increasingly Manchester ) . |
| 17 | Why the hell they ca n't spend their energy pursuing the likes of is beyond me . |
| 18 | He believed in that case the main danger would come from Wollo soldiery pursuing the Shoans into the town , and passing close to the Legation . |
| 19 | This usually takes the form of obsessively pursuing the minutiae of experimental phenomena and theories that leave a subsequent generation cold . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) might like to remember that in the polyester yarn sector , which is not covered by the question , there are anti-dumping suits going on , so we are pursuing the cases of which we are aware . |
| 21 | Since the Prime Minister said that it is important to create the conditions for economic and industrial success , will he listen to the CBI which , in its report asks the Government to take proper account of the interests of manufacturing industry instead of pursuing the policies that they are pursuing ? |
| 22 | But the works on paper are scattered with other goings-on — like contemporary creations of Hieronymus Bosch — we see mermaids cruelly trying to drown Wendy ; ghosts , demons and men with hollow eyes pursuing the children . |
| 23 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 24 | The approach of the NAO was to examine the effectiveness of the system in pursuing the objectives of central government and the consequent impact of the system on the activities of local authorities . |
| 25 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 26 | With some force he told von Knobelsdorf , the Crown Prince 's Chief-of-Staff , that it would be pointless pursuing the attacks on the Mort Homme until Côte 304 was finally conquered . |
| 27 | My method in what follows will be to begin with an analysis of the concept of an ontological existent and its associated categories of identity , individuality and plurality , and by pursuing the leads that such an analysis yields to their logical conclusion demonstrate that such concepts form part of a complex structure of closely inter-related ideas . |
| 28 | If business growth is to be achieved , in what is essentially a depressed market , it is vital that we build our market share while aggressively pursuing the opportunities offered by new product developments . |
| 29 | This refers to the tendency of attributing human motives to social institutions , in this case of thinking about organisations as if they were pursuing the goals in question . |
| 30 | Over half the Cayuse tribe died , and while Whitman treated those he could , the rumour spread that the missionary was , in fact , poisoning the Indians . |