Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
| 2 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 3 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 4 | The matron of Sick Bay , a formidable lady by the name of Mrs de Courcey-Meade , painted my wound ( unwashed ) with gentian violet , and I had to suffer the embarrassment of meeting my colleagues with a tattered and fluorescent leg . |
| 5 | The World Bank presidency has a habit of surrounding its occupants with a warm , well-meaning aura . |
| 6 | As the visit also presented an ideal opportunity of providing our guests with an in-depth view of JMSA 's diverse activities , an exhibition was set up in which autocatalysts and products of our Metal Joining , Noble Metals and Colour and Print businesses were incorporated . |
| 7 | Here I wish to focus on the employment of carefully controlled acts of aggression against the animal world as a means of modifying their relations with the spirit world . |
| 8 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 9 | The rival genius of Picasso has proved to the world that our age may be epitomized by works which ( show ) his unfailing sense of visual drama , his protean invention and his power of investing his creations with a hallucinatory poetry . |
| 10 | The Tigress 's favourite trick consists of awakening her lovers with a rifle-butt and watching with delight as they hurl themselves naked from her window into a dungheap . |
| 11 | ‘ Let us be done with the arguments of participant observation versus interviewing — as we have largely dispensed with the arguments for psychology versus sociology — and get on with the business of attacking our problems with the widest array of conceptual and methodological tools that we possess and they demand ’ . |
| 12 | Four other suicide attempts , including slashing her wrists with a razor blade , were also detailed . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the Guild succeeded in imbuing its members with a firm sense of self-worth and purpose . |
| 14 | I have not included in this estimate any involvement by us in assisting your lawyers with the preparation of the contract and disclosure letter which is usually a time consuming exercise . |
| 15 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 16 | During this year my father too succeeded in overcoming his difficulties with the language and with his new pupils . |
| 17 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |
| 18 | The Europeans were encouraged to devalue , and to open up trade between themselves before freeing their exchanges with the US . |
| 19 | She herself had forgotten the time when , long ago , she had slapped her governess 's face for rapping her fingers with a ruler . |
| 20 | Birmingham Midshires is developing an estate agency network dedicated to providing its customers with a service built on reliability , efficiency and above all , QUALITY . |
| 21 | Erm to emphasize the fact that erm in principle we are we are committed to providing our customers with a service that enables them to be more competitive . |
| 22 | With our highly flexible course structure based on a semester system , and our attention to providing our students with a high quality learning environment , we are confident that we shall retain our excellent record as a good teaching university . |
| 23 | Its new appeal goes back to around 1986 , when a handful of singers led by Ricky Skaggs and Randy Travis insisted on recording their songs with a more basic , unabashed country sound . |
| 24 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 25 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
| 26 | • There 's no cut-and-dried answer to your question , but I can tell you that a great many people would disagree with you — both about your view of your own childhood and about smacking your children with a slipper . |
| 27 | Truly successful marketing invariably begins with comprehensive and accurate market research , and here the IDB can assist through its Marketing Intelligence Centre and by using its links with the British Overseas Trade Board . |
| 28 | Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole . |
| 29 | By delineating its links with the various economic and ideological structures of society on the one hand and with the class struggle on the other , he hopes to cast light on its constitution and character . |
| 30 | It was the so-called Gilchrist-Thomas process that enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making by removing its impurities with the addition of lime . |