Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 2 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 3 | Mrs. Michie : I note your ruling about sticking to the new clause , Mr. Deputy Speaker . |
| 4 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 5 | The Art of Laughter … a cartoonists job is all about drawing on the funny side of life … |
| 6 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 7 | She enjoys what she has ; she may be less inhibited about experimenting with the outward image ; on the other hand she is less of a slave to fashion , more ready to accept her individuality and express it openly . |
| 8 | Gough , the first Scotland captain to be sent off , faces a one-match ban after his automatic dismissal for handling during the disastrous defeat in Berne . |
| 9 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 10 | In April 1984 the National Development Officer for catering in the Western Division , which includes Strathclyde and Dumfries and Galloway , organised the initial ‘ fleshing out ’ of the catering related modules through the SCFE members from the Western Division . |
| 11 | This distortion may be important in providing the flexibility needed for binding of the binuclear iron cofactor . |
| 12 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 13 | It is now almost certain that more people in Indian cities will become dependent on kerosene for cooking in the near future . |
| 14 | The tallship is most famous for appearing in the 70s TV programme , The Onedin Line . |
| 15 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 16 | I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that . |
| 17 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 18 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 19 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 20 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 21 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 22 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 23 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 24 | On arrival , guests take off their outdoor shoes at the ryokan entrance and are supplied with slippers ; shoes are handled by the management ( ie , placed at the entrance for you to leave ) , and for walking within the ryokan garden , they supply sandals or traditional geta ( wooden clogs ) . |
| 25 | The social determination of knowledge is supported not as a basis for analysing knowledge or ideology but as a basis for disputing with the positivist tendency in social science in order that an idealist and historicist account of the process of history can be recovered . |
| 26 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 27 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 28 | Lorry driver Mr. Leslie Parsons , 51 , lost control of the 28-ton lorry after colliding with the H-reg. car . |
| 29 | Most of the day-to-day trade came from the man in the street , and it would be wrong to infer that every coffin-maker and funeral furnisher hungered after catering for the top end of the market . |
| 30 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |