Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ?
2 " No , I suppose not , " He was only half listening to the bookseller .
3 All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break .
4 The movies , though , had been born into a far more complex and certainly a more highly politicized era than the earlier fictional forms and many familiar themes , especially those dealing with the problems of wealth or with sudden reversals of financial fortune , would have to be treated more sensitively .
5 The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee .
6 Senator David L. Boren , the committee 's chairman , said that the delay would give the panel time to examine the " flurry of allegations " concerning Gates , especially those relating to the Iran-contra affair .
7 I had spent , and indeed continued to spend , many hours trying to persuade the blind to see , or in other words to convince rich men of the virtue of causes close to my own heart , especially those relating to the arts .
8 Many of the claims of the developing world , especially those relating to the establishment of a new international economic order , fall into the category of articulation of needs for economic development .
9 If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ?
10 At every stage in the development of the Minoan culture , the potters — and especially those working in the temple-precincts — were producing work to please their patrons .
11 Parker was famous for his Thursday lunchtime services designed for men , especially those working in the City , and among his guest speakers in 1877 was Gladstone .
12 Oh yes , I could do that , thought Grainne , sleepless and still half drowning in the warmth and the sweetness .
13 When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor .
14 The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside .
15 The evidence for the use of these various terms as tempo indications within quite well defined limits is to be found in the many treatises of the period , notably those dealing with the metronome , but most persuasively in those scores that have survived with notated timings for each movement ( see table 2 ) .
16 It has been his job to knock on the head any mutterings about this summer 's circus , notably those emanating from the Partito Sardo D'Azione , the Sardinian nationalist party , which proclaims sarcastically that it thought Sardinia 's days as a penal colony were long past .
17 Gray and Jenkins ( 1986 ) conclude that while the FMI has enhanced the status and operation of certain aspects of financial management , notably those relating to the management of costs , this has tended to be at the expense of the integration of strategic management and even of accountability itself .
18 These issues have been intensified by the fact that , because of the very restrictive conditions operating in the Britain of today , most notably those relating to the labour market and housing , the migration processes which are largely responsible for these shifts have proved more than normally selective in terms of the types of people involved .
19 Of the applications , 90 per cent were approved but some — perhaps notably those relating to the car industry in the West Midlands — were not .
20 The companies took the point and began beautifying the environs of their stations in the manner suggested by Mitchell , designing their station gardens to be seen to best advantage by both those arriving on the train and those waiting on the station .
21 In this concentration of teaching and learning , school management pays less attention to three other categories of innovation listed in an OECD study , namely those relating to the objectives and functions of the school in its broader social and economic context , those concerned with the administration of the educational system and those which are mainly concerned with role definition and relationships ( CERI 1973 ) .
22 Examples of organisations requiring such uniformity might be the armed services , or some government departments ( eg. those dealing with the payment of social security , supplementary benefits , pensions etc ) .
23 They were now all waving in the direction indicated by Rafiq .
24 The rest are mainly those functioning under the MS-DOS operating system and are typically machines with display , graphics processing and sound capabilities falling far short of the demands of multimedia .
25 Manuals and manufacturers drawings are also required , particularly those referring to the wings .
26 Later chapters will pursue in more depth some of these issues , particularly those dealing with the type of work people will be doing in the future .
27 This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans .
28 The results obtained , particularly those relating to the origins of visitors , are , therefore , not to be seen as necessarily typical of the year as a whole , but as representative of the Exhibition Room 's busy summer period .
29 Most of the calls for the abolition of our routines involving animals , particularly those appearing in the Press or the propaganda material issued by organisations like Animal Aid or the League Against Cruel Sports , ignore this basic logical point .
30 Few Ayrshire people , even those living in the vicinity , are aware of Dundonald Castle 's place in our history and , in part , this must be attributable to the lack of interest shown in it by local authorities .
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