Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 2 | He at least has experience of dealing with the Press and the company have already allocated another member of the team for tomorrow 's race . ’ |
| 3 | The tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly which causes harm by feeding off the tomato and leaving sugary deposits , disfiguring the fruit and causing it to go mouldy . |
| 4 | Sonya Jeffery , Belfast Parks Department , highlights opportunities for walking in the Cave Hill area , which includes part of the Ulster Way . |
| 5 | It has been argued that the scheme is geared too closely to the needs of the industrial worker disabled by accident or disease in middle life , who , following full medical care and rehabilitation , needs help in returning to the routine of work , in adjusting to disability and in finding new skills within his or her capacity . |
| 6 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 7 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 8 | The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments . |
| 9 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
| 10 | ESBCD 187 ) is a 32-track , three-CD set that includes songs like Messin' With The Kid , Tattoo 'd Lady , Bull Frog Blues , Calling Card , Shadow Play , Shin Kickers , Hoodoo Blues and many more … |
| 11 | Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) Ito incorrectly explains why our model requires sites of learning in the vestibular inputs to both the cerebellum and the brain stem . |
| 13 | ‘ ( a ) the name of any person is without sufficient cause entered in or omitted from a company 's register of members , or ( b ) default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member , the person aggrieved or any member of the company , or the company may apply to the court for rectification of the register . ’ |
| 14 | This means that there is no significant reordering of the chain conformation when crystallization takes place after cooling from the melt , which would be required if a regularly folded chain structure was to be constructed in the lamellae . |
| 15 | She says he throws things without thinking about the damage it does . |
| 16 | It also prevents discoloration of icing by the cake if it is to be kept for a while . |
| 17 | Similarly , a plate with a slight rim prevents food from sliding over the edge too easily . |
| 18 | Under President Islam Karimov , the government seems intent on returning to the ways of the Soviet Union , or to even worse models in the country 's more distant past : the emirs of Bukhara , whose lands are now part of Uzbekistan , once maintained a minaret of death , from which prisoners were flung alive on market days . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Where a licensing board gives reasons in writing at the request of a party to the hearing , the board shall give copies of those reasons to all other parties to the hearing . |
| 20 | He sets objectives without yielding to the latest fashion for doing so . |
| 21 | Sue runs workshops on knitting including the professional finishing that is in evidence in the display garments . ’ |
| 22 | An escaped prisoner who faces charges of disposing of the body of a Swindon man , has given himself up . |