Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [is] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 2 | Er , the comparable cost for a family of four in this country to go to somewhere like Alton Towers or to Chessington in your own car including the cost of petrol of getting there is of the order of fifty or sixty pounds at the outside . |
| 3 | The first of these is best achieved through " criticism " and the second through " scholarship " , while the most effective means of combining them is through the study of English literature . |
| 4 | In addition , a continuation task will be used as a further method of assessing what is in the mind of the reader after reading a particular text . |
| 5 | One way of playing it is for the person who gets back first to get one point and it can be the first team to ten . |
| 6 | Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | Their own anger with their mother for not being there is then attributed to her , and their fear results from believing she is in the rage that they themselves are in . |
| 8 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 9 | It is of the essence of that jurisdiction that the court has the power and the responsibility in appropriate cases to override the views of both the child and the parent in determining what is in the child 's best interests . |
| 10 | This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them . |
| 11 | In distant times , Milford was a great whaling port , so maybe the folk who live around the haven are accustomed to shipping which is at the somewhat brutal end of sea trade . |
| 12 | His Metropole is a Cathedral of such awe- inspiring magnificence that no one can look at it without feeling he is in the presence of a concept beyond human scale . |
| 13 | you did touch earlier on about welcoming which is at the forefront of my mind all the time . |
| 14 | He 's trying to enlist my sympathy by pretending he 's in the grip of some third thing . |
| 15 | We 've really got ta start this project by thinking what is in the interests of the members . |