Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 2 | A Soho nightclub manager , Mr Peter Goodchild , 56 , was walking past the flats when the device exploded 20 yards behind him . |
| 3 | It it 's obviously wrong that where they have had access , lawful or otherwise , that the that they should n't be interfering with the rights and the ability of the walkers to walk along that route . |
| 4 | ‘ I say what 's happening with the Bloods and the Crips is the same thing that 's happening with the protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland , which is the same thing that 's happening in South Africa where different tribes fight each other . |
| 5 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 6 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 7 | Of course there is often a powerful appearance of blending in the effects that the genetic units have on bodies . |
| 8 | Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters . |
| 9 | Ted convinced himself that the sounds came from the birds nesting in the eaves or the rafters and banged the walls nth a brush . |
| 10 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 11 | Both the Seller and the Purchaser shall each keep confidential and shall not without the prior consent in writing of the other disclose to any third party any technical or commercial information which it has acquired from the other as a result of discussions , negotiations and other communications between them relating to the goods and the Order . |
| 12 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 13 | Advocating a greater use of the birch he said ‘ Young offenders are leaving the juvenile courts laughing at the Magistrates and the Police . |
| 14 | He missed wandering about the corridors but the thought of walking made his feet throb and ache even more . |
| 15 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 16 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials conceded to a congressional committee looking into the costs that the agency had made a mistake by letting the contract ‘ run over cost , over time . ’ |
| 17 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 18 | They were shouting over the sides as the ships came up close , exchanging nonsense and laughing . ’ |
| 19 | I stayed there , listening to the fireworks and the noise of a party nearby . |
| 20 | Grammatical complexity is in reality not a simple quantitative measure , but a multiplicity of different measures , not only different in terms of hierarchical level , but varying according to the positions and the categories in which complexity is found ( see further 7.5 ) . |
| 21 | But it also varies , as we shall see in the case studies in later chapters , according to the resources that the government has at hand to defuse the political consequences of disruption . |
| 22 | Might there not be , according to the circumstances and the particular ensemble , several totalizations without any links between them except coexistence or no matter what other exterior link ? |
| 23 | The families were pressing for information , for assurances ; the department was , if not directly hostile , certainly defensive , according to the parents and the Action Committee which supported them . |
| 24 | The fee varies according to the premises and the type of sound system in use , but for a transistor radio in a small retail shop it 's presently £56.22 for the first year , falling to £37.48 per annum thereafter . |
| 25 | How far local authorities , via their central training departments or LGTBs or any similar groups , can be of value , will obviously vary according to what is on offer , but also according to the facilities that the library department is able to take up . |
| 26 | The report added that according to the police and the Botswana Defence Force ( BDF ) , the SADF had carried out 20 direct attacks or acts of sabotage against Botswana up to February 1989 , killing 31 civilians , of whom 70 per cent were Botswanan citizens , the rest being refugees or visitors . |
| 27 | All that the case decided was that the Food Controller was acting outside the Regulations since the Regulations did not give the power to tax . |
| 28 | On the other hand , pressure of whatever character , whether acting on the fears or the hopes , if so exerted as to overpower the volition without convincing the judgment , is a species of restraint under which no valid will can be made . |
| 29 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 30 | The teacher in the infant school can start by capitalising on the interests and the innate curiosity of the children aged 5 or 6 . |