Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foster was punished for kicking out at the stumps during a frustrating spell at Old Trafford on Thursday . |
| 2 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 3 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 4 | Half listening , half occupied with looking out of the open window at a flock of rooks riding in circles on the breeze , Melissa was vaguely aware of a succession of faint bumping noises in the distance , followed by returning footsteps . |
| 5 | Erikson suggests that at different phases of life an individual faces a particular psycho-social problem which needs to be resolved before moving on to the next phase . |
| 6 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
| 7 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 8 | Jumpman lives is another excellent game from Apogee which gives you the arcade action of video games combined with the brain teasing problems to be solved before carrying on to the next stage . |
| 9 | Both are under the greatest attack from a government committed to drawing back from the welfare state . |
| 10 | She would be the first woman Lord Chancellor , but her love of hunting could prove an embarrassment to a party committed to doing away with the sport . |
| 11 | Labour is committed to caring most for the people who need our care : the homeless , those thrown out of institutional care without adequate support , the old and frail , those whose jobs are threatened by change at Cowley . |
| 12 | LASMO 's managers and staff are committed to working closely with the Governments of the countries in which it operates . |
| 13 | Wherever we have looked for savings , we have looked to trimming away at the centre and preserving those services that are delivered to the citizens in a direct way . |
| 14 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 15 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |
| 16 | Despite what Dane had said about facing up to the ghosts in her past and laying them to rest , it seemed she was still to be haunted by them . |
| 17 | Bowen staged an escape while being brought to court in December last year , Mark Williams is in hospital after becoming ill during the trial and Bush is still being sought after breaking out of the court last week with four of the other accused . |
| 18 | He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel . |
| 19 | Twenty four year old builder Ian Baxter , from Tilehurst in Reading , threatened to slice up the driver of a petrol tanker with a builder 's grinder when prevented from filling up at the Blewberry Service Station in Oxfordshire ; he hit the driver with the grinder , knocking out two of his teeth . |
| 20 | Aszal says that he tried to call a doctor or an ambulance from the public telephone but was prevented from doing so by the guards . |
| 21 | Year after year the crisis never climaxed , perhaps prevented from doing so by the Committee 's success in improving the course and keeping the existing members together . |
| 22 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 23 | British civil servants would like to reverse this policy , but are prevented from doing so by the EC . |
| 24 | The authority had intended to publish a full summary of its findings but was prevented from doing so by the DPP who felt that it would prejudice the trials of the three officers . |
| 25 | This is equivalent to credit rationing because banks would like to continue lending the £40 billion ( or even more ) , but are being prevented from doing so by the authorities . |
| 26 | He says Harwell has now expanded from dealing solely with the field of nuclear physics . |
| 27 | Tax gatherers and political economists usually subscribed to a rhetoric of taxing " luxuries " , but sufficient aggregate yields can hardly be secured from imposing only on the consuming habits of the well-to-do . |
| 28 | Government-sponsored ’ neighbourhood work stations ’ in suburban areas are proposed so that more work can be done without driving downtown to the office . |
| 29 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 30 | This is done by moving clockwise around the board and answering questions of political trivia . |