Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 2 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 3 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 4 | This chapter begins by looking at the formation of groups , and the emergence of roles , norms and control devices . |
| 5 | Housing in rural areas differs from housing in the urban areas . |
| 6 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 7 | To my mind , the answer to the question depends on ascertaining in the context of the Act as a whole what is the administration referred to . |
| 8 | make test checks on posting to the accounts from records of receipts and payments ; |
| 9 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 10 | However , it is interesting because of its paradoxical nature ; the apparent lack of behavioural responsiveness actually conceals very much heightened psychological and physiological sensitivity , with which the sufferer copes by withdrawing into the inactivity of catatonic stupor . |
| 11 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 12 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 13 | In either case the presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere and the lithosphere as a whole becomes thinner ( Fig. 4.5(B) ) . |
| 14 | Drill holes and fit the wall plugs before screwing on the shower slider rail or bracket ( see How to drill through tiles in best , issue 20/91 ) . |
| 15 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 16 | Tit for Tat begins by cooperating on the first move and thereafter simply copies the previous move of the other player . |
| 17 | You can remove your name from direct mailing lists by writing to the Mailing Preference Service , Freepost 22 , London W1E 7EZ . |
| 18 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 19 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |
| 20 | This dislike of their bodies leads to fasting between the episodes of overeating and sufferers commonly have a sense of failure , low self-esteem and loss of control . |
| 21 | DESENSITIZING THE POSITIVE SUPPORTING ACTION ; THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST CONCENTRATES ON LENGTHENING OF THE SOLE OF THE FOOT AND ACHILLES TENDON . |
| 22 | The same basic policy should be used for all " exceptions " : acknowledge the existence of alternatives , and encourage the habit of checking guesses by referring to the dictionary . |
| 23 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 24 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 25 | Licences over the whole of the Republic of Ireland were awarded jointly to Ambassador , Continental and Marathon in 1957 and , after some encouraging gas shows during drilling in the Northwest Basin , the consortium acquired licences in the adjacent part of Northern Ireland in 1965 . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , possible that NCp7 facilitates IN recognition of the DNA ends by binding to the DNA but leaving the ends exposed for IN cleavage and integration . |
| 27 | The number of shock wave discharges administered per session was limited to 3000 , based on experimental studies and because a higher number of discharges leads to clouding of the gall bladder with resultant suboptimal ultrasonographic visualisation caused by cavitation and fragmentation effects ( cloud of dust phenomenon ) . |
| 28 | The root of the confusion for later cases is that Lord Denning M.R. begins by approving of the Lord Hewart C.J. test and ends by talking of real likelihood . |
| 29 | Holiday tragedy : Man dies after falling from the boot of a car . |
| 30 | Now all the effort goes into preparing for the next one … although the RAF 's team is calling it a day . |