Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new movement , which was characterized as a non-party coalition , was an attempt to inject new life into her government 's programmes by reaching beyond the ruling LDP and its traditional patterns of patronage . |
| 2 | As to GATT , a trade war between America and Europe would be bad for people 's stand of living in the long run but it would n't have much direct effect on Courtaulds . |
| 3 | Midland 's expertise in looking after the financial side of your family 's welfare . |
| 4 | It was Lucy 's hope of getting into the outer office unchallenged . |
| 5 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 6 | Among those whom the hon. Gentleman has maligned is someone who has a decade 's experience of working in the NHS . |
| 7 | Souter 's relative anonymity also meant that his nomination received a muted reaction from most pressure groups — particularly those in favour of and opposed to abortion — most of whose spokespeople suggested that they would await a fuller disclosure of the judge 's views before commenting upon the suitability of his appointment . |
| 8 | This understanding is relative to the views of David Bohm , which transcend both Burr 's and Sheldrake 's views by focusing on the process at cosmic level , although the work of Burr and Sheldrake can be comfortably accommodated within Bohm 's grand structure and become essential elements in his design . |
| 9 | Both Weston and Olson , for instance , found that teachers involved in the Schools Council Integrated Science Project ( SCISP ) , breached the project 's guidelines by teaching from the board and encouraging pupils to revise — and that these teachers referred to the presence of examinations as the reason for their continuing use of these transmission-like styles of teaching . |
| 10 | Our Lord 's intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners . |
| 11 | Less than six on the Richter scale , he found out later , only a tremor , really , but it was enough to change Creed 's mind about returning to the office . |
| 12 | Aerospace officials , however , are hoping to change the government 's mind by pointing to the new activist policies of and by citing evidence that the US government is spending considerably more than the three per cent of turnover accepted as a limit under a trade agreement signed with the European Commission last July . |
| 13 | However , the chairwoman of the Scottish Labour Party , Johann Lamont , ruled out support for a Scottish parliamentary council and was heckled when criticising the SNP 's action in voting with the Government last week . |
| 14 | The Israeli authorities responded to Toledano 's abduction by sealing off the Gaza Strip and West Bank before conducting a widespread search throughout the territories . |
| 15 | The warning came from former Liverpool defender Glenn Hysen , who knows Limpar 's strengths after playing alongside the enigmatic winger many times for Sweden . |
| 16 | The announcement was again dogged by the spectre of the SNP 's deal in voting with the Government on the Maastricht Bill two weeks ago , with its leaders being asked why voters should have confidence in a party which voted with an administration which strongly advocated the continued Union . |
| 17 | The middle paragraph , which summarizes Sadat 's condition on arriving at the hospital and the doctors ' report , is expanded into three pages in the Arabic version . |
| 18 | They rub salt into God 's wounds by romanticizing about the past . |
| 19 | Richard at once countered Philip 's thrust by moving into the Loire valley himself . |
| 20 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
| 21 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 22 | When she left West Heath , Diana followed in sister Sarah 's footsteps by enrolling at the Institut Alpin Videmanette , an expensive finishing school near Gstaad in Switzerland , where Diana took classes in domestic science , dressmaking and cookery . |
| 23 | ‘ Dignity ’ is not a word that figures in my lexicon of praise ( too redolent of the prattle of soulboys ) but with Cave 's work since Kicking Against the Pricks , it 's appropriate and unavoidable . |
| 24 | For Lewis , this was ‘ the personal heresy ’ , a vivid example of which would be the present biography , which seeks to shed light on a man 's work by researching into the recesses of his mind and the outward events of his life . |
| 25 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 26 | Erm , a number of issues will come through in a moment or two , but first of all can we start this morning 's business by calling on the Chair of the Standing Orders Committee John , to give report number three . |
| 27 | Arguments advanced to show law 's defects in dealing with the family fall into three groups . |
| 28 | Is not that an appalling commentary on the Government 's record of caring for the environment ? |
| 29 | The king 's residence at Yeavering in the Cheviots reveals the solidity of his royal presence in the British hinterland of Bernicia . |
| 30 | When choosing a massage oil , you can , if you like , try to match your partner 's needs by referring to the therapeutic charts and other Aromatherapy information in Chapter 5 . |