Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little girl described by Anna Freud got over her anxiety about seeing ghosts in the dark hall of her home by advising her brother , ‘ There 's no need to be afraid in the hall . |
| 2 | But winning the prize for Texas-style candour has been Billy Brown , who , when asked about allowing homosexuals into the armed forces , says ‘ Hell no ! |
| 3 | To make this last step possible is one reason for using words of the same class . |
| 4 | You will be unable to type , except for drawing lines with the arrowed direction keys |
| 5 | There is also concern that complainants might be put off bringing complaints for the same reason . |
| 6 | We have seen that by the time children start school they have developed the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities required for handling explanations in the empirical and intentional modes . |
| 7 | At this school I conducted interviews with 25 per cent of the staff , mostly those in senior positions and with responsibility for producing parts of the self-appraisal document . |
| 8 | It is not always possible to keep to that principle , or to the above one about using words of the same classes . |
| 9 | Can the practitioner avoid the problem ? — techniques for resolving conflicts under the general law |
| 10 | Relations between peacekeeping forces of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , and rebel leader Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , deteriorated sharply during September . |
| 11 | By contrast , the young ones were able to interest old people in the workings of microwave ovens ; after cooking lessons from the young six or seven old people went out and bought them ! |
| 12 | Immediately after announcing details of the new industrial policy Singh presented his first budget to the Lok Sabha . |
| 13 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |
| 14 | Also included are props Dan Jackart and Paul Szabo , who showed well in France , along with flanker Al Charron , now fully recovered after breaking ribs in the last game against the All Blacks , and centre Tom Woods , like Cardinal a 1987 World Cup starter in New Zealand . |
| 15 | After giving details of the first four murders , Mr John said : ‘ There has been a fifth development , a murder in south London , which bears features similar to the others we are investigating . ’ |
| 16 | After studying photos of the 100-room house , she was certain the home |
| 17 | ( viii ) Five minutes after placing eggs in the above solution , suck up a single egg , together with a small drop of fixative , into a Spemann pipette with a fine point , then expel within a circle ( marked on the reverse side ) on a grease-free slide . |
| 18 | Following revaluation , a six month window was allowed for lodging appeals against the new figures ; but there are still ways the ratepayer can minimise payments . |
| 19 | But , needing something to do after being ditched from pop show The Word , she has signed up for acting lessons at the famous Lee Strasbourg School . |
| 20 | The advantages of using microbes for the early stages of such studies were well known and their biochemistry provided a convenient starting point for several investigators , especially in America . |
| 21 | The meeting had been called by the party 's political bureau , which on Aug. 27 had accused the extreme right of using events in the Soviet Union to relaunch an attack on the party . |
| 22 | US President George Bush on Jan. 11 welcomed the move as " a very sound step " , and cited the announcement as a justification for his policy of maintaining contacts with the Chinese government [ see p. 37122 for visits to China by senior US officials in July and December 1989 ] . |
| 23 | Tatiana Rovkatch , 12 , remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant . |
| 24 | Probably as a result of seeing photographs in the Great Exhibition in London and at the Société Héliographique in Paris , Fenton began his own photographic experiments . |
| 25 | But in 1979 , to the Elysée 's amazement and consternation , Roger Gicquel , anchorman on TFI ‘ s 8 p.m. news , alluded — albeit prudently — to what was becoming a French ‘ Watergate ’ — ‘ l'affaire des diamants ’ , in which President Giscard was suspected of accepting diamonds from the self-styled ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa . |
| 26 | R.S. engaged the spouses of relocating employees in the new location when this was appropriate and publicised employment opportunities in the surrounding area . |
| 27 | A visit to Tunis by President Mitterrand of France on July 11 was regarded as a gesture towards repairing relations between the two countries following the popular feeling in Tunisia against the anti-Iraq coalition during the Gulf war . |
| 28 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 29 | Potten et al have recently described a software package which generates frequency plots of labelling indices against the exact cell position within the crypt . |
| 30 | The impact of the ending of job opportunities in an overcrowded London , combined with the effect of the Speenhamland system of subsidising wages under the old Poor Law , produced an underpaid , stable , demoralised and pauperised work force by the early nineteenth century which reached its maximum income relatively early . |