Example sentences of "the [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) .
2 For Bultmann , the resurrection is not an event in our world ( for resurrections he would hold , as I , do not occur in our world ) , but something of far greater magnitude , an eschatological event which represents the breaking in of another world order .
3 The giving up of all hope .
4 The structure of dialogue , moreover , disallows the taking up of any position beyond the interlocutors from which they can be integrated into a larger totality .
5 I 'm concerned about the loss of the access of parental rights panel and the handing over of this work to the Courts and the lawyers .
6 arising directly or indirectly by , through or in connection with the carrying on of any trade business or profession ;
7 A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it .
8 Concentration upon the working out of this formula had the effect of almost wholly avoiding any serious consideration of the central issue .
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