Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Males continue to court in the way they do because if a male were to stop producing part of the species ' typical display , females would not mate with him . |
| 2 | , Frances Mary ( 1827–1894 ) , educator and founding figure in the girls ' public day-school movement in England , was born in London 16 August 1827 , the eldest of ten children ( of whom she and four brothers were survivors ) of Robert William Buss , painter and etcher , and his wife Frances Fleetwood . |
| 3 | Another way of gaining insight into the students ' predicament is to analyse how we ourselves ( native and non-native speaker ) set about tackling pieces of English discourse which pose comprehension problems for us . |
| 4 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 5 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 6 | dressing Tiger for the dolls ' pram . |
| 7 | In another development , six of the 11 executive members who voted against the motion expressing confidence in the MPs ' decision , stressed their opposition to the argument being continued in public . |
| 8 | The Quakers had to withstand a barrage of early pressure , with both Biggins and Stein causing problems in the visitors ' defence . |
| 9 | The plan has provoked a fierce debate within France , with President Mitterrand 's wife , Danielle , leading the protest , and Environment Minister Brice Lalonde expressing concern over the bears ' fate . |
| 10 | He relapsed into a dangerous silence when they accused him of ‘ breaking family ties ’ by his refusal to stop writing letters to the Strickers ' home . |
| 11 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 12 | The CRL 's main task is testing products for the Consumers ' Association , publisher of Which ? magazine . |
| 13 | I remember once dealing with a particularly brutal river scheme , and seeing hanging in the engineers ' porta-cabin , which overlooked the now canalized river , a calendar showing The Haywain . |
| 14 | When buying look for the manufacturers ' ‘ cut-through ’ : a small section of the bed showing its construction . |
| 15 | The Times owed its dramatically rising circulation to the partners ' innovations : in 1827 an Applegath & Cowper four-feeder machine was installed , and in 1846 two Applegath eight-feeder machines were used . |
| 16 | The pastoral scene described denied the back breaking nature of the islanders ' survival conditions . |
| 17 | Third parties interested in moving product into the Peoples ' Republic of China on the back of this new Unix System Labs joint venture , Unix System Technology China Ltd ( UX No 411 ) , should get in touch with USL 's Far East operation , Unix System Laboratories Pacific , until such time as the China unit actually gets off the ground . |
| 18 | For the Watercare business ' Purisource package is providing nutrients to the bugs ' daily diet of effluent , making the ‘ meal ’ more appealing . |
| 19 | I was teaching English in the boys ' grammar school in the town where we lived then , and a teacher in the infant school asked my little daughter , ‘ What does your Mummy teach at the College ? ’ and she replied , ‘ She teaches boys . ’ |
| 20 | The Enterprise Centre would reciprocate where appropriate by including staff from the employers ' organisations in the Enterprise Centre 's staff development programme . |
| 21 | " Wo n't you be having lunch in the directors ' room ? " |
| 22 | There was only one really bitter outbreak of in-fighting , prompted by a story which Peter Walker had raked up from somewhere that gave an account of Margaret hoarding food during the miners ' strike . |
| 23 | demonstrating DC as a searchers ' tool for subject access , browsing and display , and |
| 24 | Baker did well apart from losing possession for the Saints ' third goal while Wark earned a first half booking for a challenge on Banger . |
| 25 | Walton J. did not purport to decide the case on the basis of a payment made under a mistake of law and I agree with the doubts expressed by Romer J. in Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , as to this being a true case of money paid under a mistake of law having regard to the plaintiffs ' expressions as to their understanding of the law at the time of the payments . |
| 26 | In our opinion , this constitutes a violation of the Theft Act 1968 subsection 32 ( c ) and we would be grateful if you would consider the following advice : please stop going down Convent St. and entering houses without the owners ' permission . |
| 27 | Assert your right to walk on land to which access is denied by taking part in the Ramblers ' Association Forbidden Britain Day . |
| 28 | The Israel Nature Reserves Authority is attempting to protect the population , providing guard dogs to local farmers to prevent wolf attacks and collecting data for the wolves ' long-term conservation . |
| 29 | Keast , who was just able to recall the Jubilee celebrations for George III in 1810 taking place at the Bullers ' home at Shillingham , was to officiate at Queen 's Victoria 's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887 at the age of 84 . |
| 30 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |