Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found a significant negative correlation between returns during trading for the S&P500 and the subsequent returns during trading for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 2 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 3 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 4 | It is not for want of trying on the part of The International Tennis Federation . |
| 5 | The two six man teams board a coach in the early hours of Sunday and can be driven around for hours before arriving at the venue of the referee 's choice . |
| 6 | As can be seen from Table 6 , there is a significant main effect for level of processing for the recognition scores . |
| 7 | These different perceptions mean that there is scope for confusion in communicating with the public and non–specialists on risk issues , and great care needs to be taken . |
| 8 | I 'd found the candle-making kit in the cupboard under the stairs five or six years ago , and experimented with the colours and consistencies for months before hitting on the idea of using the wax as a wasp-prison . |
| 9 | There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night . |
| 10 | I ca n't hear the Playhouse spoke of without trembling ; and shall not dare to look into a News-paper , for fear of meeting with the Name of Cibber |
| 11 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 12 | She warns against what can sometimes be a knee-jerk support of abortion technology for fear of playing into the hands of the right wing . |
| 13 | After months of teetering on the brink , David Reed has filed for protection from his creditors . |
| 14 | And so , despite the undeniably galling aspect of being asked to rejoice in so meagre a victory after decades of hammering on the hallowed portals of power , I believe it would be foolish to look this particular gift-horse in the mouth . |
| 15 | Oman is placing an order for three patrol craft with French shipbuilders after weeks of waiting in the hope that a buyer might be found for the Tyneside yard . |
| 16 | After years of dealing with the likes of dullard and truculent supermarket purchasing managers , Horsley was suddenly meeting all manner of fascinating and powerful people . |
| 17 | After years of plotting against the Russians , he found it difficult to trust any of them . |
| 18 | And the decision means Tranmere 's second string will finally have quality opposition after years of languishing in the Midlands Senior League . |
| 19 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 20 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |
| 21 | A suicide note revealed they were desperate after years of caring for the seriously handicapped daughter . |
| 22 | After days of fighting between the army and the people in Togo , where President Gnassingbé Eyadéma has ruled for 24 years , a truce was agreed in mid-April . |
| 23 | It was utterly dull and repetitive , day after day of filing for the Inland Revenue . |
| 24 | One , Catherine Barton , absconded after supper by climbing over the wall and did not return until the next morning after 7 o'clock . |
| 25 | Maidstone came through their qualifying group , beating French sides Montchemin , Houilles , Domant and Lormaison , and beat Belgian side Anderlecht after extra-time before losing in the semi-final to PUC Paris . |
| 26 | Between groups , categories , communities and societies there will be different mixes and levels of competences in dealing with the outside world which will inevitably affect their conceptualisation of it , the resources available to them , and their response to it . |
| 27 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 28 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 29 | Other Cabinet changes prompted by Keating 's resignation were : the appointment of Simon Crean in place of Kerin ; the appointment of Ross Free to replace Crean as junior Minister for Science and Technology ; and the addition of responsibility for Housing to the portfolio of Brian Howe . |
| 30 | Within a couple of minutes of going over the destroyer 's port side , Donald Roy 's kilted Scotsmen were attacking the pumphouse 50 yards from the caisson ( 'H' on diagram p. 41 ) . |