Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other insists that science has much in common with model-making , which differs from mapping in the modeller 's licence to construct an artificial world and include in it all sorts of features beyond all possible observation . |
| 2 | It appears that the dads who are already paying are the one 's who are paying and nobody seems to chasing after the others . |
| 3 | Newcastle 's Live Theatre gets £24,000 , mainly for The Durham Story which tells of mining in the county . |
| 4 | The fellowship itself has an innate self-criticism which comes from wading in the quicksands of the psychic . |
| 5 | She insists on looking after the hens herself . |
| 6 | Who cares about ageing in the sun ? |
| 7 | One advantage of the no-choice system is that Vaughan can write her menu late in the afternoon , around the dishes that she feels like cooking on the day , with the best ingredients available to her . |
| 8 | His only friend is the tubercular and crippled Ratso Rizzo , who dreams of getting to the sunshine of Florida one day . |
| 9 | If there is a professional programmer out there who feels like collaborating on the challenge , I should like to hear from him or her . |
| 10 | 4 She retaliates by going over the top of her partner 's defence . |
| 11 | If two neutral events of the same class are used , the second one interferes with learning about the first . |
| 12 | At this stage , therefore , we shall say nothing about the range of theories which can be brought to bear on international relations , if one believes in working from the inside in pursuit of understanding . |
| 13 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 14 | If you are uncertain of the type of frame you want to use , or even of the very important role it plays in setting off the finished picture , browsing through the photographs in this book should give you a good idea of the tremendous versatility of frames , and also show you how the correct frame will focus the eye on the design itself , as well as balance all its elements . |
| 15 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 16 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 17 | ‘ It looks like pimping in the West End is a lucrative business . |
| 18 | He starts by sitting on the side of the plinth , and the physiotherapist may use mobilizing techniques to reduce any spasticity in the patient 's trunk or arm . |
| 19 | Editor , — I agree with J D Swales 's contention that the Tomlinson report will damage postgraduate education if it results in weakening of the vital links between the special health authority hospitals and teaching in the postgraduate research institutes . |
| 20 | ‘ Looking to the future further controls on mercury ought to follow the path it takes before accumulating in the fish . |
| 21 | It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed . |
| 22 | He speaks with feeling about the magic of a solid , round arch : ‘ You go into wonderful places like York Minster with its beautiful tracery , but , for me , the sheer strength and solidity of Romanesque architecture — its robustness and simplicity — are endlessly fascinating . |
| 23 | For the speaker can not settle what he means by settling on the effects it will produce as he can settle what he is setting out to mean in saying it . |
| 24 | Recognizing that people do act according to established beliefs and pre-existing knowledge systems , he focuses upon distinguishing between the establishment of those beliefs ( which he calls ‘ ideologies ’ ) and action in accordance with those beliefs . |
| 25 | This practice ended when it was declared unlawful by judicial review in 1985 ( R v Hallstrom ex parte W ) , although under Scots law it continues with monitoring by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland . |
| 26 | He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States . |
| 27 | It begins by looking at the Reagan record in such areas as pollution control , natural resource management and energy , at the administration 's attitudes to the international environment ( it wants to cut its contribution to the UN Environment Programme by 70 per cent ) and at the massacre of the Council on Environmental Quality ( two thirds of its budget and four fifths of its staff chopped ) . |
| 28 | It begins by looking at the ideas of lecturers , but is primarily concerned with the meanings that ‘ physics ’ or ‘ physical science ’ have for students , and the ways in which those meanings are sometimes at odds with the experience of studying those subjects . |
| 29 | When it comes to thinking about the questions before , another — the time between you agree to do the interview and actually doing it , is your preparation time . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the lawyer can only respond to knowledge that has already been established ; he has little scientific imagination , especially when it comes to pushing at the frontiers of advancing aerodynamics or similar matters . |