Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an inflexible , even fanatical supporter of the ultramontane line taken by Wiseman and Manning and often machinated against the other English bishops , exacerbating disputes and misrepresenting them to the pope . |
| 2 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 3 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 4 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 5 | Mr R. Batson , Hyssington for preparing the plans and submitting them to the Local Authority for planning permission . |
| 6 | But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary . |
| 7 | ‘ All right ! ’ he bit out harshly , suddenly , taking her wrists and pinning them to the bed , breathing raggedly . |
| 8 | Hotels with only the basic facilities can attract this type of business by putting together composite package deals and offering them to the conference agencies . |
| 9 | Farmers and landowners are being offered annual payments of up to £300 per hectare for conserving and re-creating traditional English habitats and opening them to the public . |
| 10 | It was to have been the IRA 's biggest gun-running plot ever , but it was foiled because of what was called ‘ Operation Leprechaun ’ , where the CIA , our MI5 and Irish Intelligence took a healthy — or unhealthy , it all depends on your point of view — interest in the activities of Noraid , an Irish-American group that specialized — for all I know it may still be specializing — in buying American arms and shipping them to the IRA in Ireland . |
| 11 | When I 'd extracted my head from the carrying rope , Kāli untied the bale and started scooping up armloads of pine-needles and throwing them to the top of the pile . |
| 12 | ‘ You can leave us now , ’ she said , taking off her outdoor clothes and handing them to the maid . |
| 13 | It was quite simply we we were taking the business away from the high street erm glossy type travel agents and giving it to the back street travel agents . |
| 14 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 15 | The market dealer acquiring the shares and selling them to the company is subject to a special tax regime ( ICTA 1988 , s95 ) . |