Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 2 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 3 | Taylor said : ‘ Even allowing for the big advances in modern medicine , I 've always been a big believer in waiting for an operation to be complete before making any assessment . |
| 4 | The majority of the Parish Council object to this development because it is out of keeping with the surrounding properties in size , design and proposed building materials . |
| 5 | Joseph divided his time between fighting and councilling with the other headmen in a concealed ‘ smoking lodge ’ . |
| 6 | Gratefully Gina covered her nakedness , marvelling at the strange circumstances in which she found herself . |
| 7 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 8 | Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class . |
| 9 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 10 | A Soviet team acting under the Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) Treaty [ see p. 37838 ] inspected military installations in the UK on Oct. 29-Nov.1 [ see p. 38458 ] , while US inspectors reviewed Soviet military activities in Lvov on Oct. 28-30 under the terms of the CFE Treaty . |
| 11 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 12 | Again , the key to assimilation was complete equality of peoples , and opposition to those who pretended there were separate national cultures operating above the two classes in each culture ( as argued by Bauer ) . |
| 13 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 14 | In the fourth year , in addition to consolidating their command of the language , students choose from a menu of options which cover topics ranging from the earliest texts in German to the work of contemporary writers and including some study of art and film . |
| 15 | The Tuxedo discs begins with the rather pedestrian Preludio 2 by Raffaele Calace ( ‘ father of modern mandolin playing ’ , according to the informative notes in the Amon Ra release , where more music by Calace , equally dull , is to be found ; Tuxedo , by contrast , seems to have cut back on fees for notewriters ) . |
| 16 | In fact , if one understands government growth to refer to the increase in the degree to which government affects the nature of the society in which it operates , it is possible to derive a variety of measures according to the different ways in which a government can influence its environment . |
| 17 | STRABANE-based Adria , the province 's leading hosiery manufacturer has developed a reputation for pushing beyond the traditional boundaries in the hosiery industry . |
| 18 | With that problem out of the way , he carefully examined her , frowning at the obvious ascites in her abdomen . |
| 19 | He 'd have spent all his time looking at the bloody birds in the Jungle instead of reading his cue-cards . |
| 20 | Quite often , this begins with looking at the enticing pictures in the catalogues . |
| 21 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 22 | Looking at the near-sensational claims in the press release — whoring ? smuggling ? — I see that Mary Kingsley is not alone in being economical with the truth . |
| 23 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 24 | Looking at the relaxed poses in our photographs , it will come as no surprise to learn that Clarissa modelled for a few years back in the 60s . |
| 25 | He fingered his jaw thoughtfully , eyes glittering at the scarlet patches in her cheeks . |
| 26 | I was going through the death-registry books in the cartrio civil of Bom Jesus da Mata , a market town in the sugar-plantation region of Pernambuco in the Brazilian North-East . |
| 27 | Would not the courts therefore be able to take into account the facts of offences without going through the restrictive provisions in this ill-considered new Bill ? |
| 28 | Fable 45 in R. Dodsley 's Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists ( 1798 ) describes a man buying a parrot because he is so impressed by the bird 's saying ‘ I think the more ’ when asked why it is not chattering like the other parrots in the shop . |
| 29 | The only variable that they can revise directly in either an upward and a downward direction is the money wage rate , but revisions of the money wage rate will have no direct effect on the real wage rate owing to the sympathetic variations in the general level of prices that they would provoke . |
| 30 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |