Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By allowing the Bill to pass through the House unamended in respect of premium rate services , they are condoning everything that is being done by those who for the past six years have been offering pornographic ’ services ’ . |
| 2 | In early October a UNP working party proposed fresh elections as a way of restoring Parliament 's credibility and of allowing the JVP to participate in the political process . |
| 3 | Theatre staff usually wait until the patient 's vital signs are stabilizing before allowing the patient to return to the ward . |
| 4 | Tariffs and trade restrictions were to be reduced only gradually , so allowing the EEC to concur with the world organisation , GATT , to which the OEEC states belonged . |
| 5 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 6 | My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom . |
| 7 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 8 | using natural language indexing and allowing the user to deal with the vagaries of that language , or |
| 9 | It was clearly bitterly divided and strongly polarised in its conflicting views , mostly revolving around the rights that would follow allowing the ladies to serve on the Main Committee . |
| 10 | In order that the method of fixing is secured to the pelmet buckram and not only to the lining , hand stitch , with a strong needle and thread , along the previous machine stitching on the tape , catching the buckram but not allowing the stitches to show on the right side . |
| 11 | They provide expertise across a wide range of topics while allowing the students to contribute to the year-to-year developments in experimental techniques . |
| 12 | Often too a local document might be used as a springboard , as starter material allowing the teacher to work from the known and familiar locality to the wider historical context . |
| 13 | This Act amended the 1944 legislation which had divided schooling at age 11 between primary and secondary , by allowing the break to come between the ages of 10 and 12 , to cover the development of middle schools . |
| 14 | The prostaglandins also set off or cut down or stop specific enzyme reactions within the cells , thus allowing the body to react to the environmental stresses and insults and so keep itself intact . |
| 15 | Slowly lower your head , slide back a yard or so , and then cast to the fish , or imagine you are casting if you have no rod with you , without allowing the rod-tip to show over the edge of the bank . |
| 16 | Ideally a software interface will exist to connect the cartographic , tabular and graphical output from a GIS and the report-generation capabilities of a high-quality word-processor , thus allowing the results provided by the GIS to be incorporated directly into a document . |
| 17 | Fears about excessive regulation have now disappeared , allowing the market to focus on the more fundamental attractions , with profits growth set to be stimulated by cost reductions . |
| 18 | To name but three : Protestants everywhere insisted upon the necessity of allowing the laity to worship in the vernacular , giving them the cup in communion , and allowing the clergy to marry . |
| 19 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 20 | A little weight helps so I cast on , then drop a nylon cord ( most machine knitting retailers will have them in stock ) over the stitches allowing the ends to drop between the beds . |
| 21 | All the most popular colour specification systems are provided , including CIELAB , Munsell , NCS and Pantone , allowing the designer to work in the most convenient manner . |
| 22 | We are supposed to be able to turn the silver piece round , so that the plain side of the work is towards us , allowing the needles to lie in the grooves on the underside of the garter bar and replace the stitches on the needles . |
| 23 | We have to recognize that education must satisfy the needs of its pupils ( a highly un-Platonic idea ) , and that in the case of some children , not necessarily the least able , their needs will be best met by allowing the balance to tip in the direction of the practical . |
| 24 | The results also point up the problem of maintaining the standards reached in the new services . |
| 25 | There is talk of either scrapping or maintaining the borders inherited from the era of colonisation . |
| 26 | Society will wish to evaluate this cost as the social cost of building the plant multiplied by the social rate of discount which we discussed above . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's writing on it , ’ she said , touching the letters carved in the stone . |
| 28 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 29 | The GIMMS command tells the VME operating system to activate the GIMMS program , using the instructions contained in the file PMMLIB.GIMMSAF . |
| 30 | : To investigate the extent to which the definitional overlap technique contributes to the text recognition process across a range of domains , using the OALD coded with the larger lexicon . |