Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This information is broadly of two kinds — that relating to the education authority 's policy and arrangements , and that relating to the individual school . |
| 2 | For larger molecules it is not possible to disentangle the information about the electronic ground state from that relating to the excited state . |
| 3 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 4 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |
| 5 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 6 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 7 | ‘ See you later , ’ said Sheila , already half listening to the next question . |
| 8 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability . |
| 10 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 11 | She was half laughing , half melting under the determined onslaught of his caresses . |
| 12 | Delaney staggered over , half falling into the vacated chair . |
| 13 | Half seated , half leaning on the wooden structure and pushing with her feet against ground well worn by many such operations , she managed at last to move the gates gradually apart . |
| 14 | Because if she does n't , I do ; millions in this country do ; and members of her own party do : that urging from the Prime Minister wo n't resolve the dispute — arbitration will . ’ |
| 15 | We 've got so much going through the big wire , put another little wire on as well . |
| 16 | A poor response from Valencia was easily overcome and within the city there was much murmuring against the new ruler . |
| 17 | With old people , the physical condition has so much bearing on the mental state . |
| 18 | It does n't have much bearing on the next season . |
| 19 | It does n't have much bearing on the next season . ’ |
| 20 | But mother 's too close for comfort ; there 'd be too many nearby friends , too many chances of bumping into people I 'd rather not bump into ; too much mitigating against the clean break ; new start . |
| 21 | In his belief in a series of minutely planned , economical offensives with limited objectives — each adding to the total exhaustion of the enemy until the moment for the ‘ definitive effort ’ arrived , instead of the one ‘ Big Push ’ — Pétain bore some resemblance to the great Turenne . |
| 22 | Is n't that going to the very heart of prayer — a two-way conversation in which we talk and in which we do some listening as well ? |
| 23 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |
| 24 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
| 25 | When speeches are made after seated dinners at lengthy , formal wedding receptions , they begin after all eating at the formal meal has finished , and are preceded by the announcement from the toastmaster , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , you may now smoke . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There have been occasions when there were three different speakers all preaching at the same time , attempting to drown each other out . |
| 27 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 28 | For example , a site may consist largely of a number of postholes , all dating to the Neolithic period . |
| 29 | At Ávila the walls are of granite and there are 86 towers and 10 gate-ways ( 310 ) all dating from the eleventh century . |
| 30 | It now stands alongside the main road between Sleaford and Lincoln , set in a landscape of rectangular fields and straight lanes all dating from the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century enclosures there . |