Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My qualification for writing about skiing in the USA is unusual : I have never done it . |
| 2 | They merely supplement them , as the original qualities of food supplement the effects of cooking in accounting for the properties of the finished dish . |
| 3 | THE furious Pakistani cricket team started a racism row last night after England batsman Allan Lamb accused them of cheating by tampering with the ball . |
| 4 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 5 | H. R. Niebuhr has shown the range of thinking with regard to the relationship between Christ and culture adopted by theologians at various times ( Niebuhr 1951 ) . |
| 6 | Rising divorce rates affect the family 's capacity for caring by adding to the number of lone parents . |
| 7 | Editor , — Reviewing our book , Emily Grundy wrote : ‘ They … contend that there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , our precise conclusion was that ‘ the probability of cell death does not increase with the age of the culture ; ie , there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level ’ ( p 216 ) . |
| 9 | The commonalty find their justification in speaking by speaking as the mouthpiece of another . |
| 10 | The move away from teaching by copying in the second half of this century and the lack of space for exhibiting the works has meant that the collection has been largely hidden . |
| 11 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 12 | Born in the depressed town of Flint , Michigan , 21 years ago , Me Phi Me ( who uses the symbol of the Greek letter phi to spell out his middle name ) started writing poetry at the age of six , before graduating to rapping on the streets . |
| 13 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 14 | The town is in mourning after hearing about the two accidents at the weekend . |
| 15 | In other words , differences in processing times arising from the greater syntactic complexity of the passive were not reduced by semantic constraints . |
| 16 | Going back to seeing to looking at the erm goods shed . |
| 17 | Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase . |
| 18 | Oliver wondered what the connection was between playing at stealing from the old gentleman 's pocket and becoming a great man . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 20 | Had she driven poor Tina away by hesitating about paying for the installation of a bathroom ? |