Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 2 | In general L and P are not equal and it is therefore reasonable to ask if there are theoretical reasons for favouring one over the other . |
| 3 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 4 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 5 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 6 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 7 | But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop . |
| 8 | Month by month , the chances of saving anything from the wreckage of Bosnia grow less . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 10 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 11 | But at least she could be certain of one thing : it was n't a place where there was a risk of meeting anyone from the power station , at least not anyone who mattered . |
| 12 | Using sharp needles and ink , they were in the act of tattooing something on the girl 's back . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) The offences referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) above are offences of stealing anything in the building or part of a building in question , of inflicting on any person therein any grievous bodily harm or raping any woman therein , and of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein . |
| 14 | He was the least well acquainted with Connon and had no intention of saying anything at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll wait here , ’ Claudia said with no intention of doing anything of the kind . |
| 16 | This route to the Jabri Nullah proved elusive and highlights one of the problems of doing anything in the Himalayas : poor maps and strange local information . |
| 17 | The capital of Finnish Lappland is Rovaniemi , home of Father Christmas — or so it is said — and a town that easily overcomes the embarrassment of having everything but the airport lying south of the Arctic Circle . |
| 18 | The wine and the excitement of having someone in the house to talk to . |
| 19 | ‘ And this is where she 's really going to feel the benefit of having someone in the family who knows about insurance . ’ |
| 20 | So far the Musée Rodin has kept up a pretence of knowing nothing about the case while in reality keeping an extremely close eye on every aspect of it . |
| 21 | The climb was enjoyable in spite of knowing nothing about the mountain , but awareness of history does add to a climb . |
| 22 | It all came of being so confined , of knowing nothing beyond the village of Haverstock . |
| 23 | Progress will inevitably be slow but the dual-task technique offers the possibility of determining something of the nature of the dynamic interaction between the two hemispheres . |
| 24 | She almost jumped forward and darted towards the side entrance , dashed through the gate , up the shrub-bordered path and into the yard where , at a far door , Aggie was standing in the act of handing something to the maid . |
| 25 | But the cubicle in which the yellow sheet had been found could reveal no further secrets , and all hope had early been abandoned of learning anything from the scores of footprints which had criss-crossed the grassy area since the murder . |
| 26 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 27 | The problem lies with systems of universal education which pretend that they are in the business of educating everybody to the limits of their potential , while hypocritically and determinedly doing the opposite . |
| 28 | Rex and Tomlinson 's ( 1979 ) study of Handsworth in Birmingham was undertaken with the intention of discovering something of the relationship of Asian and West Indian immigrants and their children to the class structure of contemporary British society . |
| 29 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 30 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |