Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 2 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 3 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 4 | Surely Tom one of the main criteria should be placing seats in the studio theatre for something with a bit more comfortable that way perhaps the punter 's will come back more often it 's easier to make a punter come back than it is getting in there in the first place . . |
| 5 | Finally , of course , there was no market research pointing to where in the entire continent would be the most suitable place to start . |
| 6 | This gradual variation of the gradient is effected without disturbing the horizontality of the lift dock by providing at least at the upper part of the incline two or more sets of rails for each carriage supporting the dock , the said duplicate sets of rails being in different alignment and gradually assuming different levels , the wheels of each carriage being adapted to travel thereon so that on the diminished gradient the leading wheels will travel on rails at a different level from those on which the trailing wheels travel , the duplication of the rails and their difference of level being variously arranged according to circumstances . |
| 7 | THE first meeting of Focus , the new name for the re-formed Chester Lesbian , Gay and bisexual Group , takes place this evening , beginning at 7.30pm at the Quaker Meeting House , Frodsham Street , Chester . |
| 8 | ‘ Then what are you doing out here in the first place ? ’ |
| 9 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 10 | She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse . |
| 11 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
| 12 | Experience can also be evoked as the condition for attributing a characteristic behaviour to someone , however , and this explains the possibility of using to even with the operative sense of know . |
| 13 | The importance of such an outcome is very different depending on where in the causal chain the third variable comes . |
| 14 | They would have had to have done it within three weeks anyway and I think the way they are looking at it if they do that tomorrow then they 're counting from then till the next stage . |
| 15 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 16 | Despite falling behind twice in the first half to Liverpool 's shadow squad , the Londoners still had the determination to snatch victory with a disputed penalty . |
| 17 | The organized youth movement can easily be identified as emerging from out of the economic and social crises commonly associated with the late Victorian period . |
| 18 | Consequently , an item originating from somewhere within the Persian province of Khorassan will simply be called a Khorassan . |
| 19 | Its call sign — ‘ This is the Voice of Peace , broadcasting from somewhere in the Mediterranean ’ — is familiar to millions of listeners . |
| 20 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |