Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 2 | Each new member of staff receives a five page letter from Mr Nitschke explaining what the hotel is about and he still attends the induction programme each Monday morning . |
| 3 | I , however was lost in a daydream wondering what the Queen would be like . |
| 4 | Firstly , it was accepted by all Scots that the coronation of their king was valid only if carried out upon the Stone of Destiny , and in spite of the Christian ceremony accompanying it the right to place the crown on the new monarch 's head belonged irrevocably to the Earl of Fife , premier layman of the realm . |
| 5 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 6 | In contrast , the gigantic photographic images depicting what the curator Jeffrey Deitch has called our Strange Developments act to bludgeon what is assumed to be our jaded sensibilities , but more obviously demonstrate the burn out of a certain faction of the mid Atlantic artworld , curators and buyers . |
| 7 | Some of these patriarchs grow magnificent beards and moustaches , the whole effect giving them the appearance of an Old Testament prophet . |
| 8 | The problem with framing the duty to act in the company 's interests in terms of subjective intentions , however , is that in practice determining what the directors ' true objectives are will often be beyond the court 's capabilities . |
| 9 | At the end of each section there is a summary of the main events of each of the legs showing us the different problems of all 23 entries . |
| 10 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 11 | The commission arrangement should n't leave either side resenting what the other is getting . |
| 12 | They landed at Inverkeithing and made their way up the cliffs , the summer sun warming their backs , past Aberdour onto Kinghorn Ness , Corbett showing them the place King Alexander III allegedly fell , before going down the path to the royal manor . |
| 13 | ‘ In the 1950s and 1960s I served my apprenticeship watching what the good caddies did — old Tip Anderson , Tip 's dad , and Little Mac , Dai Rees ' caddie . |
| 14 | On 1 November 1990 , Norwich Union wrote to the applicant telling him the effect of the intervention notice , and saying : |
| 15 | On 30 May 1952 a letter went from Churchill to Ramsey offering him the see of Durham . |
| 16 | Aunt Maggie videoing you the re-match ? |
| 17 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point is proved by the officer or warden describing what the defendant did to contravene the signal as at point 2 above . |
| 18 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 19 | In its original meaning çift referred to the smallest unit of land which could support a family , and in the early days of the timar system the çift was the core holding which the timarli farmed himself for the benefit of his own family . |
| 20 | Jacobs ' folly had been to play ‘ Ca n't Happen Here ’ ‘ by a group of American male singers calling themselves the Mothers of Invention ’ on BBC TV 's Juke Box Jury , adding that the record had been made on a ‘ trip ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ residential occupier , ’ in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 22 | 1 ( 1 ) In this section " residential occupier " , in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 23 | Police spokesman Martin Wallwork said : ‘ In police stations civilians will do the duties of officers who man the front desk giving us the opportunity to redeploy them on the streets . ’ |
| 24 | Acutely embarrassed by this unexpected disclosure , the British government hastily added a clause to the 1911 Official Secrets Act giving it the right to see copies of all cables if an emergency existed . |
| 25 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 26 | Why else would I spend a nickel phoning you the glad tidings . ’ |
| 27 | I think its fairly unanimous that if any department needs improving its the defence . |
| 28 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 29 | Czechoslovakia 's opposition acquired a colourful new facet yesterday , when a group calling itself The Ladybirds launched its manifesto . |
| 30 | Only a day earlier , another pro-Palestinian group calling itself the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ - believed to be from Abu Nidal 's organisation — had claimed responsibility in Beirut for the murder of the Belgian Jewish leader , Joseph Wybron . |