Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In rural communities , pressures to conform to a fixed structure of normative obligations were strong , since most people 's livelihood depended upon remaining within the family unit . |
| 2 | As a respondent in my study commented about economising on the heating : ‘ I turn it off when I 'm in on my own and put a blanket on myself . |
| 3 | In a typical wing-bearing segment of most insects there is a single apodeme on either side formed by infolding along the pleural sulcus and known as the pleural ridge . |
| 4 | And also the marks of the little side axe used for trimming off the sides . |
| 5 | Warmer fluid escaped through the interfacial region above the sedimenting layer and enhanced the convection driven by cooling at the roof . |
| 6 | Emotions ( according to this theory ) are purged because of the release of tension involved in identifying with the participants in a representation of violent events . |
| 7 | He was n't up to the fancy footwork required for duelling on the high seas . |
| 8 | Boom predicted in shopping on the telephone |
| 9 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 10 | In 1979 the state constitution was amended and a ceiling placed on spending by the state and in local jurisdictions within its borders . |
| 11 | The State Department announced on Feb. 7 that Felix Bloch , a US diplomat suspected of spying for the Soviet Union , had been informed that he was being suspended without pay with immediate effect . |
| 12 | This distortion may be important in providing the flexibility needed for binding of the binuclear iron cofactor . |
| 13 | Anglo-Saxon battle based on drawing in the Canterbury Hexateuch . |
| 14 | Pupils from Lexden Primary School spent the day at the zoo , learning about the work involved in looking after the chimps and other animals . |
| 15 | The committee charged with looking into the habits of the EBRD , which last year spent more on itself than on helping ex-communist countries , has set strict standards for the inquiry . |
| 16 | The change in anxiety invoked by reading about the potential complications of surgery is shown in table II . |
| 17 | The women 's singles championship went to Joan Blackett who beat Gwen Wharton 21–13 while John Hanmer beat Les Appleby 21–13 to secure a men 's singles championship final place in a breathtaking match dominated by drawing to the jack end after end . |
| 18 | 11.2 Any statement made in writing by the Landlord 's solicitors to the Tenant 's solicitors prior to the making of this agreement [ in reply to an inquiry made in writing by the Tenant 's solicitors ] was made with the authority of the Landlord |
| 19 | But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book , the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries , the atrium before it — though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica , where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist — is of the early twelfth . |
| 20 | Juliana 's Discotheque played for dancing in the Lancaster Room , and Bojolly 's in the Abraham Lincoln Room ; both were packed . |
| 21 | New highways through the rainforest lead to boom-town development , destruction and dereliction ; reservoirs from flooded valleys ( intended to generate clean , cheap electricity ) silt up , thanks to the soil erosion caused by clearfelling of the protective forest cover on surrounding slopes . |
| 22 | Use of the network is free apart from the charge involved in linking with the nearest KIDLINK network ‘ node ’ . |
| 23 | Sometimes his decisions are made on grounds of convenience : after most newspapers in Britain committed contempt of court over the arrest of " Yorkshire Ripper " Peter Sutcliffe , the Attorney decided against prosecuting on the ground that he would have to put dozens of editors in the dock . |
| 24 | ‘ The firm name used by a multi-national partnership shall consist only of the name or names of one or more lawyers , being present or former principals of either the multi-national partnership or a predecessor legal practice , together with , if desired , other conventional references to the firm and to such persons ; or a name approved in writing by the Council as the name of the multi-national partnership or of a predecessor legal practice . ’ |
| 25 | Apart from a very limited number of highly specialist areas of the environment where changes will automatically trigger responses within the enterprise ( e.g. the financial markets , meteorology ) , an enterprise can not respond to changes in its environment unless someone , or some people make(s) a positive effort to transfer information about the changes to the person or persons within the enterprise charged with responding to the changes ( or not , as the case might be ) . |
| 26 | On realising that he was the only person charged with breaking into the bank , Middleton said , he had decided to stop protecting the ‘ real criminals ’ . |
| 27 | Expenditure is permitted only where authorized by a candidate , a candidate 's election agent , or a person authorized in writing by the agent . |
| 28 | There is a pride taken in surviving in the hard , even hostile , conditions of work through the exercise of physical bravery in coping with materials which are difficult to handle such as in a foundry . |
| 29 | Old Red returned to frowning at the floor . |
| 30 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |