Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again we are confronted with a system of control in part generating the terms , the concepts , and the space of its own negation . |
| 2 | The structure was held together with ropes binding the beams to the vertical posts . |
| 3 | The extent of active support for the Khmer Rouge in the countryside is impossible to judge , but interviews with peasants in the provinces of Battambang , Pursat , Takeo and Kampot , in the west and south of Cambodia , indicate widespread passive support allowing the guerrillas to move around and gather food . |
| 4 | But I have found no evidence of maladministration by the DoE or the Health and Safety Executive and in the circumstances I do not question the merits of the decision allowing the appeals . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Ingham blusters and inveighs against the perfidious press at the drop of a hat — any story using the words ‘ bunkum and balderdash ’ as part of a denial are certainly based on his remarks — largely because they do not always print what he wishes to see . |
| 6 | ‘ At this present moment they are engaged in a fully comprehensive training course using the systems run by the local college , on which I took the liberty of enrolling them . |
| 7 | You can do everything from digging the foundations building the walls and putting in the plumbing and electrics . |
| 8 | So that you could get the slow and of course coating the granules before compression . |
| 9 | Mrs Clwyd — like Mr Livingstone — may well have difficulty gathering the nominations of 55 MPs needed to get her name on the ballot paper . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the research process was to be used to train locals in obtaining the information they needed , and thereby develop a network of individuals and groups who would express their concern for the land issues of the region by an ongoing commitment to further action at local and National level using the results obtained from the study . |
| 11 | Many commensals or parasites of ant colonies have specialised glands that produce a variety of secretions appeasing the ants and preventing attack ; these secretions may be identical or nearly identical to recognition pheromones produced by the ants . |
| 12 | The Mason waded up and down among the crowds allowing the womenfolk to feel his arm and kiss his dirty hand as though it were a holy relic . |
| 13 | No-one can say for certain whether he was right ; what can be stated with certainty is that with Italy and Germany helping the Nationalists almost from the beginning , non-intervention threw the Spanish Republic into the embrace of the only great power willing to help her — the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 15 | I can not afford to send donations to every appeal that comes through my letterbox , but I can walk for miles in glorious locations and sit for hours enjoying the birds in my garden . |
| 16 | If you have built up some experience using the remedies then you will find the 30 an excellent potency for acute illness . |
| 17 | I invite you up here and all you think is whether the dyke is full of nitrates poisoning the villagers . ’ |
| 18 | On one occasion , for instance , a lunch between a journalist and a Minister resulted in a front page story suggesting the knives were out for Mr Kenneth Baker . |
| 19 | Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade , in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war . |
| 20 | We are training a group of mental health monitors from the refugee community who will be able to lead discussion groups using the pamphlets and also spot special cases of need for referral to us ' This training will also be very useful in the future during the reconstruction period , as community mental health workers are going to be essential . |
| 21 | There was no one much remaining to hear this — only Garvey , Lucie unbridling the horses , and Izzie and Gabriel standing by . |
| 22 | The response of most analysts to this complex problem is to present their transcriptions of the spoken text using the conventions of the written language . |
| 23 | Joe Carr had given Jarrow the lead at half time , with Michael Taylor levelling the scores before Norman Platts shot home Silksworth 's winner in the 87th minute . |
| 24 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 25 | I worked in the kitchen scrubbing the pans . |
| 26 | And we had the pit ponies and where we did n't have the pit ponies drawing the hutches , which we termed the small wagons carrying the coal from the coal face to the pit bottom , then er we had to do it by hand . |
| 27 | German newspapers questioned the decision , the Berliner Morgenpost reflecting the views of many by stating in an editorial that ‘ anti-doping measures obviously are ineffective ’ . |
| 28 | Rectangular Cartesian coordinates can be assigned at O using the tangents to plus ON itself . |
| 29 | I have written to those employees previously covered by the link explaining the reasons , and expressing my regret that we were unable to take this important step with union support , ’ he added . |
| 30 | In accordance with the Protocol and Agreement , UK companies with establishments in more than one member state could be faced with implementing two sets of policies incorporating the effects of adopted Social Policy legislation ( such as the establishment of works councils ) . |