Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 2 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 3 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 4 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 5 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 6 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 7 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 8 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 9 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 10 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
| 11 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 12 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 13 | The second draft discusses the relationship between the auditor and management and draws together in one document relevant sections from a number of international standards on auditing which relate to the different aspects of the auditor 's responsibilities in this area . |
| 14 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 15 | The Marian-centred approach has produced writing which ranges from the absurd and lurid to the scholarly and balanced — about Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 16 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 17 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 18 | Move one of the program group boxes off the edge of the screen and scroll bars will appear allowing you to scroll through the full area of the desktop . |
| 19 | Line managers are responsible for allocating you work , setting and monitoring the general standards of conduct and performance they require from you at work and helping you perform to the best of your ability . |
| 20 | ‘ Is that the chap who was helping you move in the other day ? ’ |
| 21 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 22 | Dorothy L. must be describing them to put over the dramatic picture of the abandoned easel , but I 'll take all that for granted . " |
| 23 | Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period . |
| 24 | What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) . |
| 25 | First , the ‘ European bookseller Year ’ link with the meeting of the EC bookseller associations has drawn a great deal of attention , leading we hope to the largest ever London get-together of European booksellers . |
| 26 | Joining the Foreign Legion in 1914 , and later the French Airforce , Hall became the first to capture a German plane intact , by forcing it to land behind the French lines . |
| 27 | Deciding what to do with the Arab volunteers is hard for Pakistan , which is under pressure from other Islamic governments , and from America , to eject them . |
| 28 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 29 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 30 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |