Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 2 | Cairn is also considering merging its interests in the United States with Omni Exploration , a quoted American company , where Cairn acquired a 64 p.c. stake in December . |
| 3 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 4 | For stomach curls you lie on your back on the floor , bend your knees upwards slightly ( while keeping your feet on the floor ) , then lift your head and shoulders a few inches off the floor ( do not use your hands or arms to support your weight ) . |
| 5 | Consideration will be given to seasonal dwellings ( such as the shielings where members of rural communities lived while tending their animals in the upland summer grazing ) and to the temporary nature of much Scottish housing in the past . |
| 6 | She can lie on her back like an inverted cockroach while waggling her legs in the air . |
| 7 | The weather broke overnight and it blew hard from the south east for the following week which , while postponing our patrols to the north islands , was no great setback to our plans . |
| 8 | His major territorial acquisition , the duchy of Lancaster estates in the north west , was already staffed by royal servants who would now look to the duke while retaining their links with the crown . |
| 9 | His major territorial acquisition , the duchy of Lancaster estates in the north west , was already staffed by royal servants who would now look to the duke while retaining their links with the crown . |
| 10 | Ferguson celebrated his 21st birthday while negotiating his months in the wilderness and watched Eoin Jess , who has a much sounder temperament , make a sizeable impact on the national coach at the same time . |
| 11 | It means keeping Northern Ireland in the UK state for the foreseeable future while banning its citizens from the politics of the state . |
| 12 | At this stage , while setting your goals for the whole dieting period , use another graph to plot out your weight at the end of each month . |
| 13 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 14 | Thus s.309 of the Companies Act 1985 does not regard the interests of the employees and the shareholders of the company as irrecon-cilably opposed , expecting the directors to be able to take the interests of the employees into account whilst performing their duties to the company , including the shareholders . |
| 15 | In foreign policy , while seldom innovative , he did try to carve out new relationships with Britain 's new European partners , especially through his close personal association with Helmut Schmidt , the West German chancellor and a fellow social democrat , as well as maintaining his contacts with the new US Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter . |
| 16 | It is alarming to hear how many relatively inexperienced pilots seem completely unaware of the risks they take when pitting their skills against the forces of nature . |
| 17 | The cases equally indicate the boundary beyond which the church was seen as abusing its definitions of the sacred . |
| 18 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 19 | Marx 's contribution is to see ideology as having its origins in the social relations characteristic of the mode of production and not the result of prejudice in the individual . |
| 20 | Archaeology is usually regarded as having its beginnings in the mid 16th century with the work of topographers such as John Leland ( 1506–1552 ) who was employed by Henry VIII as ‘ Keeper of King 's Libraries ’ and so travelled extensively . |
| 21 | Andrew Tickle of Greenpeace commented : " Britain is seen as dragging its feet by the rest of Europe , giving minimum information and talking political rather than scientific targets . " |
| 22 | If you have undercharged yourself when putting your proposals to the opposition and you have not marked the letter without prejudice then you will not be able to charge more when the matter comes to taxation . |
| 23 | Now an SRO , when fulfilling its obligations under the Act , need only provide investors with an adequate level of protection . |