Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their search became more frantic they found themselves aided by Bismarck , who in February 1869 gave his support to a Prince belonging to the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 2 | provided the pupil is mainly taught programme of study material within the range of levels appropriate to his or her key stage , schools may teach the pupil for part of the time at a level falling outside the key stage … |
| 3 | The ad shows a crook gazing at the busty , mini-skirted girls and asks : ‘ Who 's giving your bag the eye ? ’ |
| 4 | In the full orchestra such doubling is frequently a necessity owing to the tremendous swamping-power of the heavy brass . |
| 5 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 6 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 7 | Each centre which has received approval to offer a course leading to the Professional Certificate or the Professional Diploma is deemed to have accepted the HCIMA Regulations . |
| 8 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 9 | He was just a hat and a cloak levitating in the grey plume of his own breath , but when he called we came . |
| 10 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 11 | Of course , it is much better to have a written contract , because proving a contract relying on the spoken word can be notoriously difficult . |
| 12 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 13 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 14 | Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations : naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions . |
| 15 | A correspondent writing to the Public Ledger in 1816 expressed the view very clearly : ‘ That the French Revolution , with all its constant horrors , was preceded by a total revolution of decency and morality , the virtuous dualities of a mind being sapped and undermined by the baneful exhibition of pictures , representing vice in the most alluring and varied forms , to a depraved mind , is a truth that unfortunately will not admit of doubt . ’ |
| 16 | Dr David Tyrell , a scientist working on the Medical Research Coucil 's Aids programme , described the results at Tulane University , Louisiana , as ‘ very important and encouraging . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Traa de loor ’ , meaning time enough , is a favourite saying on the stress-free island which seems to have been trapped in a time-warp . |
| 18 | This went further by challenging the immunity that the unions had enjoyed from any financial damages incurred during strikes , a privilege dating from the Liberal government 's Trade Disputes Act of 1906 . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 20 | Each of these weeks has its own theme , rather like a signpost leading to the next part of the route . |
| 21 | The first term in each equation represents a wave travelling in the positive x direction and the second term a similar wave travelling in the negative x direction . |
| 22 | Overall , equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) allow for a signal being fed in at one end of a transmission line , propagating along it and being partially reflected at the other end to give a wave travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | The urgency of the Czech art establishment 's task is not helped by cloying , centralising bureaucracy : when an English-language Prague newspaper requested a photograph of a Schiele drawing from the National Gallery 's collection , it was told to send a formal request to the director , Mr Slavicek . |
| 24 | Despite popular mythology concerning ‘ evil ’ and vicious species that track down their victims ruthlessly and mercilessly , the reality is that no venom , no poison , no bite , no sting , is ever administered except under extreme provocation or simply by accident , unless the victim is either a potential prey or a rival belonging to the same species . |
| 25 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 26 | He heard the tell-tale sound of a horse whinnying in the largest barn , and ran to unfasten the door . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's got a horse running in the big race , has n't he ? ’ |
| 28 | Sometimes I glimpse a figure moving behind the net curtains on the other side of the airwell . |
| 29 | The fragmentary fig. 113 has an uncertain mythological subject , possibly the death of Opheltes ( Archemoros ) : a man starts back , raising his arm to throw a stone at a huge snake which rears , belching smoke , from among reeds ; and there is part of a figure falling against the framing circle behind or below the man . |
| 30 | ( b ) Express terms negative implied terms An express term in a lease generally excludes the possibility of the implication of a term dealing with the same subject matter as the implied term . |