Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infant learns to talk of hearing its mother in the garden , smelling hamburgers cooking in the kitchen , or seeing the dog enjoying itself with a ball or being hurt by the cat . |
| 2 | Conflict of Interest Rules : financial institutions are in a unique position of trust when handling funds belonging to the public . |
| 3 | The in-car shot showed catering leftovers splattering across the windscreen . |
| 4 | It is , according to report , to test electronic equipment for checking cars coming into the centre of cities . |
| 5 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be due to a build-up of scale or to air being drawn into the system . |
| 6 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 7 | Slaves were to obtain freedom , missionaries black souls , British consumers cheaper sugar , manufacturers and traders new markets in other sugar producing areas benefiting from the ending of the West Indian monopoly and , did they but realise it , slave-owners themselves were to benefit not only in terms of possible compensation but through being forced to become more efficient and to modernise their operations . |
| 8 | If you use a stick-microphone , support it on a stand and position it as close as possible while allowing enough room for you to handle the script without rustling noises getting onto the recording . |
| 9 | To help support his family , he began writing articles calling for the defence of free trade in West Africa against the protectionism of the encroaching French and the special privileges of the Royal Niger Company . |
| 10 | Garfield 1972 and 1973 suggested assessing the importance of publications by assigning weightings according to the journal in which the papers appeared . |
| 11 | But in the 1960s the gate control theory of pain showed that pain provoking messages proceeding toward the head were the result of interactions between inhibitory and excitatory effects from the periphery which mixed in spinal mechanism . |
| 12 | In the United States the Age Discrimination Act 1967 aims to ‘ promote the employment of older persons based on their ability rather than their age , to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment , and to help employees and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age in employment . ’ |
| 13 | In November 1971 the Council set up a committee to consider its future relationships with the colleges — ‘ to consider what changes are desirable to afford greater independence to polytechnics and colleges in planning and operating courses leading to the Council 's degrees ’ . |
| 14 | Civic Forum contested the elections as a coalition of groups and parties from the conservative to the far left , and favouring approaches varying from the centre-liberal to the social democratic sections of the political spectrum . |
| 15 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 16 | Brought-forward trading losses can be set against balancing charges arising on the disposal of the target assets . |
| 17 | The Chamber of Deputies received in late January the report of an all-party parliamentary committee investigating payments amounting to the equivalent of US$3,000,000 made by the army in 1989 to Augusto Pinochet Hiriart , the son of former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , in the so-called " Pinocheques " case . |
| 18 | Gesualdo 's later madrigals , however fascinating their scent of decadence , are an evolutionary dead end ; Monteverdi was taking part in the transformation of the madrigal into something quite different , though in view of his dramatic and pictorial ability it is strange that he neglected to produce one of those suites of madrigals popular at the time ( comedie armoniche ) realistically describing women gossiping at the wash ( Striggio 's Cicalamento delle donne al bucato , 1567 ) , Venetian scenes ( Croce 's Triaca musicale , 1596 ) , or a complete commedia dell'arte ( the Am–parnaso , 1597 , of Orazio Vecchi ( 1550–1605 ) , the outstanding masterpiece of this genre ) , and a whole series of works by Banchieri . |
| 19 | The gallery was filled with smoke , the guttural screams and crackling sounds coming from the chamber occupied by the secretary , Cosmas . |
| 20 | He had resigned in January 1992 from a presidential committee with responsibility for handling problems relating to the repatriation and distribution of land to demobilized contras . |
| 21 | It must also make a submission to parliament containing proposals relating to the policy to be followed next year in respect of the dealing with the state assets . |
| 22 | As a new Guitarist service , Chris will be answering queries and hopefully quelling crises arising from the purchase or supply of equipment … |
| 23 | Despite this seemingly unattractive situation , there was a large influx of mining companies prospecting in the country in the late sixties . |
| 24 | Stena , in contrast , has come off badly ; profits of Skr107 million ( $17.9 million ) are 60 per cent down on 1989 , a result , it claims , of restructuring costs arising from the bid . |
| 25 | The development strategy can be further controlled by specifying a parameter and temporarily removing nodes satisfying from the list of active nodes . |
| 26 | This is especially true when considering provisions dealing with the retirement and expulsion of partners . |
| 27 | It shows two men wearing gloves walking from the direction of the first explosion . |
| 28 | He also recorded his suspicions that those paupers who had gone to prison were now wearing clothes belonging to the workhouse , and enquired whether their own clothes should be sent to them . |
| 29 | Saunders , who had resigned the chairmanship in January 1987 , had been charged in October of that year [ see pp. 35727-28 ] ; he was cleared by the jury , however , of shredding documents relating to the case . |
| 30 | The iron bar struck the frame and the glass simultaneously , shattering the glass , sending shards spraying into the kitchen . |