Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation of nursery school children demonstrated that their teachers were able to halve the frequency of fights and quarrels merely by attending to the children when they were playing peacefully , and offering comments such as ‘ That 's nice ’ , ‘ You are playing well together ’ . |
| 2 | Well , many thanks indeed for fighting for the last hour on this programme . |
| 3 | We bathed our feet deliciously before sprawling on the soft mossy bank in the drying heat of the sun . |
| 4 | Senior management can keep a proper balance between different departments or functions eg. by deciding on the resources to allocate to each . |
| 5 | His experiences there in grappling with the problems of planning the postwar development of the French economy had made him increasingly convinced that effective economic planning was beyond the capacity of any single state , but would depend upon intense cooperation between states . |
| 6 | In 1992 , despite the deepening recession , the same companies i.e. before allowing for the Magazines loss , earned a profit of £733,500 or £193,000 more than in 1991 . |
| 7 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 8 | Frank Walker retired two years ago after working for the South Tees Health authority for 23 years . |
| 9 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on the nine days ahead of battling over the direction of economic reform in Russia and over a new constitution , several drafts of which have been prepared by different factions . |
| 10 | punctuation that is allowed to fall outside the margins instead of staying within the measure of the text . |
| 11 | It was reported on April 8 that Michel Mokuba Bokulo Mena , who had been appointed in the Cabinet reshuffle on March 28 , had resigned as Minister of Institutional Reforms apparently after disagreeing with the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | Stress directs resources away from dealing with the job to dealing with the emotional discomfort and personal threat . |
| 13 | That 's the sort of thing that makes you realize you 're not going to find the job of your dreams just by going to the job centre . |
| 14 | When you feel worthless , useless — and do things often without knowing at the time why you have . |
| 15 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities the mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 16 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities their mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 17 | ‘ It hurt me , ’ he growled , ‘ all that stuff about sitting on river banks and prowling moors instead of concentrating on the job , turning up late and being more interested in fishing and shooting than football . |
| 18 | For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date . |
| 19 | If Shildon had waited on the stairs instead of leaving by the street door , he could creep back and force the flat door while she was asleep . |
| 20 | Now quite frankly Mr Deputy Speaker , if we want these new constituencies , including South Essex , it seems we 're going to have to say to the French they can have lots and lots of money to build lots and lots of new buildings for this rather ridiculous parliament and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , members tonight in voting on the new boundaries will really have to decide what we want to do . |
| 21 | The veteran bomber 's just 4 flights away from passing into the history books ; a sad prospect for the pilots who 've flown them . |
| 22 | Even very young children are aware that people think differently , and as they get older they need a model of how to discuss differences honestly without papering over the cracks . |
| 23 | The convoys were foiled in their attempts to stage a Castlemoreton style festival , so they changed tactics , frustrating police and motorists alike by converging onto the M5 . |
| 24 | With the cold winter evenings ahead why not try out some of these differing styles as alternative self-portraits instead of trying on the Euromask ? |
| 25 | TWO MEN were questioned by police soon after riding round the town on stolen motor bikes . |
| 26 | In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually . |
| 27 | Passions have cooled since then , and the committee now recommends that NASA consider building instruments especially for hitchhiking through the galaxy on ESA spacecraft . |
| 28 | Mr Poole urged doctors , hospitals and the public to continue approaching suspended London crews directly for emergency services instead of relying on the police , the army and the voluntary services . |
| 29 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 30 | In Britain there are 100,000 convictions annually for driving under the influence of drink and it has been estimated that 20 per cent of all hospital admissions are associated with alcohol in some way . |