Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of trust we feel justified in placing on the work done for us is a measure of both the moral status of the occupation and of the work performance we can expect . |
| 2 | Only those convicted of criminal offences and President Ibrahim Babangida himself remain banned from standing in the elections . |
| 3 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 4 | The links that have developed in networking with the many voluntary groups that operate in the areas and the recognition of the individuals right to self-esteem and to develop an expertise in relation to living and functioning in their many roles , has changed my way of working with people — probably forever . |
| 5 | The African National Council — one of whose leaders he is — have responded by breaking off the talks with the Smith government . |
| 6 | They have been caught in the crossfire of this particular Serbo-Croat war and have responded by fighting against the Serbs whose reservist soldiers in the Mostar barracks have behaved atrociously over the past six months . |
| 7 | The publications of Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt have succeeded in bringing into the mainstream of art history the study of artist 's pattern books and travel notebooks , which were so important for the dissemination of ideas and motifs , as well as book illustration and marginalia drawings . |
| 8 | I do n't feel that I have succeeded in mixing with the community as well as I would like to have done . |
| 9 | Asking students to supply a title which refers to discourse type as well as topic , is a quick way of checking they have succeeded in orientating towards the discourse as a whole . |
| 10 | Heeding Lady Barber 's wish that the ‘ purchases for the Collection shall be of that standard of quality required by the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection ’ , the Trustees have succeeded in acquiring over the years a group of paintings , drawings , sculptures , and objet d'art of exceptional merit , a number of them undisputed masterpieces . |
| 11 | Lots of readers have written in complaining about the lack of uniformity in children 's clothes sizes . |
| 12 | Secondly , from the observations that I have made in dealing with the evidence before the court , it is clear that the evidence is not all one way . |
| 13 | Indeed , all the experiences that we have had before coming to the House influence us . |
| 14 | Until now I have abstained from commenting on the possible effects of the Human Genome Project on society in future . |
| 15 | Governments and cities have seized on recycling as the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills or being incinerated . |