Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a multiprogramming computer system , then , we have a number of processes competing for the resources of the computer , such as main storage areas , processor time , and access to transput devices . |
| 2 | She looked up as Sophie returned , leafing through the pages of the veterinary register . |
| 3 | Even allowing for the passions of the moment , the story is probably true ; it is thoroughly in keeping with Pétain 's character ( and the 33rd was suffering from lack of discipline when he took it over ) . |
| 4 | PREACHING about the dangers of the Ecstasy drug wo n't stop youngsters trying it . |
| 5 | It penetrates the carcase of its prey at one end , usually the head end , and it may actually leave the skin intact while progressively eating through the insides of the animal . |
| 6 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 7 | I do feel on the question of whether we are bringing people into the Harrogate area or catering for the needs of the residential population . |
| 8 | The council says the scheme will give pedestrians greater comfort and safety as well catering for the needs of the disabled . |
| 9 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 10 | The Father broke away from the knot of priests , shrugging off the efforts of the men to restrain him , and came across to Owen . |
| 11 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 12 | On reflecting about the activities of the last year I looked up enterprise in ’ Roget 's Thesaurus ’ . |
| 13 | Men sitting in the turrets of their reconnaissance tanks , men riding camels , and men driving through the streets of the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 14 | The FA has taken the extraordinary step of bringing the clubs to book because of the tightrope football is walking between the laws of the game and the law of the land . |
| 15 | Before I could reply a shell burst a short distance away sending a hail of shrapnel tearing through the branches of the trees above us . |
| 16 | The Ghost , weaving through the roofs of the Main Face , now stands at E3 to give a remarkable route . |
| 17 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 18 | This practical load continues with issues like disposing of the clothes of the person who has died . |
| 19 | He pinched himself and warmed his hands on the fire , shuddering against the extremes of the cold night air and the warmth of the signal box . |
| 20 | Quite suddenly all the guards jumped in , their tommy-guns banging against the sides of the carriage and their leather harness creaking , and the train chugged off at about fifteen miles an hour towards Bromberg . |
| 21 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the idea of judicial independence in the sense of politicians not directly interfering with the activities of the courts was not a principle upheld in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 24 | People with a record for interfering with the likes of the Pitts , not ones with their social standing , though . ’ |
| 25 | He kissed his fingers in a flamboyant sort of way and swept off , his quiff bobbing above the heads of the other guests like a small ship on a turbulent sea . |
| 26 | Servants moved among them , serving ch'a and sweetmeats , their pale green silks blending with the colours of the garden . |
| 27 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 28 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
| 29 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 30 | Ulrika , who once dated Prince Edward , was caught on camera walking in the arms of the mystery man . |