Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performance of each dictionary was tested using each of the three documents , and measured in terms of percentage correct and z-score ( the t-score could now be replaced by the z-score since sample sizes were sufficiently large ) . |
| 2 | Continue every 25 cm around the edge of the ring using each of the different fabrics in turn ( illustration 4 ) . |
| 3 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 4 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 5 | Allowing some of the built-up tension inside her to dissipate , she forced a mocking smile to her dry lips . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 7 | Wolfe admitted handling some of the stolen money and was placed on probation for 18 months . |
| 8 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 9 | However , after reading several copies of Ideal Home , I felt inspired to paint and decorate using some of the striking designs and techniques illustrated in the magazine . |
| 10 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 11 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 12 | The teacher , Mr Phillips , was helping some of the older children at the back of the schoolroom . |
| 13 | Dissuading some of the smallest walkers from clinging to our pedals , we moved on from Ana 's Cross , to the road down Chimney Bank back to Rosedale Abbey . |
| 14 | Acres of material and miles of thread have gone into producing some of the finest quilts in the world . |
| 15 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 16 | The entire cast were excited about the dress rehearsal of The Count of Luxembourg , even the blasé old orchestra catching some of the anticipatory delight that stemmed from the new production . |
| 17 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 18 | Morant and Newman hoped gradually to develop a comprehensive free health service for children administered by local Medical Officers of Health , seeing this as the first step towards a free health service for all . |
| 19 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 20 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 21 | The following summarises the results of pressing each of the possible field terminator keys recognised by LIFESPAN . |
| 22 | A soviet ( or governing council ) representing each of the twelve nahijes ( districts ) within the pashalik was established , but its powers were vaguely defined and it became an instrument which Karadjordje could use or ignore as he felt fit . |
| 23 | The activities of the Society are controlled by a Council of nineteen members , representing each of the various categories of membership . |
| 24 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 25 | The breakaway Communist Refoundation [ see below ] polled 2.6 per cent of votes cast , overtaking some of the smaller parties in the coalition government . |
| 26 | In summarising some of the major developments in the case of the mentally handicapped in 1981 , Peter Mittler wrote : — |
| 27 | He was given 25 years but tried to negotiate a cut in his sentence by returning half of the stolen gold . |
| 28 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 29 | This choice between government ( hierarchy , planning ) and the market is important in understanding some of the recent changes in the overall process of coordination by central government in Britain , that is to understand how the country is run . |
| 30 | This is true of two interesting and important cognitive theories , the first of which has proved to have considerable usefulness in the treatment of depression and the second in understanding some of the biological mediators of depression . |