Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ? |
| 2 | " No , I suppose not , " He was only half listening to the bookseller . |
| 3 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 4 | The movies , though , had been born into a far more complex and certainly a more highly politicized era than the earlier fictional forms and many familiar themes , especially those dealing with the problems of wealth or with sudden reversals of financial fortune , would have to be treated more sensitively . |
| 5 | The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee . |
| 6 | Senator David L. Boren , the committee 's chairman , said that the delay would give the panel time to examine the " flurry of allegations " concerning Gates , especially those relating to the Iran-contra affair . |
| 7 | I had spent , and indeed continued to spend , many hours trying to persuade the blind to see , or in other words to convince rich men of the virtue of causes close to my own heart , especially those relating to the arts . |
| 8 | Many of the claims of the developing world , especially those relating to the establishment of a new international economic order , fall into the category of articulation of needs for economic development . |
| 9 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 10 | At every stage in the development of the Minoan culture , the potters — and especially those working in the temple-precincts — were producing work to please their patrons . |
| 11 | Parker was famous for his Thursday lunchtime services designed for men , especially those working in the City , and among his guest speakers in 1877 was Gladstone . |
| 12 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |
| 13 | The speciality is much smaller and the leaders in the field are probably acknowledged by most if not all practising in the field . ) |
| 14 | Oh yes , I could do that , thought Grainne , sleepless and still half drowning in the warmth and the sweetness . |
| 15 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 16 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 17 | The evidence for the use of these various terms as tempo indications within quite well defined limits is to be found in the many treatises of the period , notably those dealing with the metronome , but most persuasively in those scores that have survived with notated timings for each movement ( see table 2 ) . |
| 18 | It has been his job to knock on the head any mutterings about this summer 's circus , notably those emanating from the Partito Sardo D'Azione , the Sardinian nationalist party , which proclaims sarcastically that it thought Sardinia 's days as a penal colony were long past . |
| 19 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1986 ) conclude that while the FMI has enhanced the status and operation of certain aspects of financial management , notably those relating to the management of costs , this has tended to be at the expense of the integration of strategic management and even of accountability itself . |
| 20 | These issues have been intensified by the fact that , because of the very restrictive conditions operating in the Britain of today , most notably those relating to the labour market and housing , the migration processes which are largely responsible for these shifts have proved more than normally selective in terms of the types of people involved . |
| 21 | Of the applications , 90 per cent were approved but some — perhaps notably those relating to the car industry in the West Midlands — were not . |
| 22 | The companies took the point and began beautifying the environs of their stations in the manner suggested by Mitchell , designing their station gardens to be seen to best advantage by both those arriving on the train and those waiting on the station . |
| 23 | In this concentration of teaching and learning , school management pays less attention to three other categories of innovation listed in an OECD study , namely those relating to the objectives and functions of the school in its broader social and economic context , those concerned with the administration of the educational system and those which are mainly concerned with role definition and relationships ( CERI 1973 ) . |
| 24 | Examples of organisations requiring such uniformity might be the armed services , or some government departments ( eg. those dealing with the payment of social security , supplementary benefits , pensions etc ) . |
| 25 | They were now all waving in the direction indicated by Rafiq . |
| 26 | The rest are mainly those functioning under the MS-DOS operating system and are typically machines with display , graphics processing and sound capabilities falling far short of the demands of multimedia . |
| 27 | The S/NVQ framework provides a challenging new route whereby those working in the industry can gain a qualification which recognises competence in the workplace . |
| 28 | Manuals and manufacturers drawings are also required , particularly those referring to the wings . |
| 29 | Later chapters will pursue in more depth some of these issues , particularly those dealing with the type of work people will be doing in the future . |
| 30 | This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans . |