Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 2 | The sheer fury of Southend 's running kept Spurs under pressure and in the 41st minute Gary Mabbutt , newly cautioned for bringing down the impressive David Crown , gave the ball to him . |
| 3 | Southend defender Prior played a poor back pass and full-back Powell was booked for bringing down the goal-bound Thompson . |
| 4 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 5 | It is useful for bringing together the separate parts of the ANLT and the grammar and lexicon can be developed and altered within this environment . |
| 6 | This unusual situation provides a motivation for bringing together the extreme poles of our everyday understanding of space and time : the most outer and the most inner , the first and the last . |
| 7 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |
| 8 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 9 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 10 | For toning up the whole body and increasing your stamina , swimming and running are both excellent . |
| 11 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 12 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 13 | After writing down the initial equation , we need to rearrange things to get R by itself and defined in terms of what we know — D and T . |
| 14 | Former England coach Steve Harrison is back at Crystal Palace after turning down the assistant manager 's job at Scottish Premier Division St Johnstone . |
| 15 | Substituting these in the theorems ( 4.16 ) above gives , after separating out the requisite components of L , M , the inequalities ( 4.12 ) and ( 4.13 ) . |
| 16 | A team of police officers swooped on the men 's home in Penny Lane at 9am yesterday and arrested them after breaking down the front door . |
| 17 | The Kiwi Test star grabbed two tries and three goals after taking over the kicking duties from David Lyon , who went off injured at half-time . |
| 18 | Chapman , of Billericay , admitted dangerous driving after drinking twice the legal limit . |
| 19 | Now they have finally agreed to an Ulster Branch request for an evening fixture and will fly into the province immediately after wrapping up the English part of their trip on the previous Wednesday . |
| 20 | The first difficulty ( after baling out the bottom 50mm of water ) is removing the old pipe connections . |
| 21 | In between carousing down the powdery slopes , Branson and his colleagues could take stock of an empire that had grown almost beyond recognition in the last six years . |
| 22 | Under the policy we are responsible for replacing only the damaged item and not undamaged matching items . |
| 23 | This is the best time of the year for seeking out the Great Bear , though from most of Australia and South Africa it is always very low , and from Sydney or the Cape only part of it rises . |
| 24 | The festive period this year is a good time for seeking out the various shapes or figures in the Moon , for its phase grows ( waxes ) from first quarter on 23 December to full on 30 December . |
| 25 | The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees . |
| 26 | There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia . |
| 27 | The task of drawing out the main points from the mass of data takes considerable practice and is time consuming . |
| 28 | It is possible , in response to these apparent counter-examples to a context-independent notion of linguistic competence , simply to retreat : the rules can be left unconstrained and allowed to generate unacceptable sentences , and a performance theory of pragmatics assigned the job of filtering out the acceptable sentences . |
| 29 | a method of binding where the folded pages are stitched through the spine from the outside , using wire staples . |
| 30 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |