Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it |
2 | It was a Michaelmas Day or at least the old erm Quarter Day for paying rents and erm it was generally known in those days as muck spreading because erm it was usual time for erm , the farm workers to get ready for the winter ploughing . |
3 | We have insulins which cover a wide range of duration of action , but we still have injections which must be the least palatable aspect of life for the patient requiring insulin . |
4 | For the patient showing extreme distress , a tranquillizer may be indicated . |
5 | The Court of Appeal ruled that outside s.2(1) the question of dishonesty was for the jury applying " the current standards of ordinary decent people " . |
6 | To create a pleasant landscape experience for the motorist travelling along the route . |
7 | The integrity of highly conserved region 2 is essential for the DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory functions of Vmw175 . |
8 | For the DNA bending assays 143 bp fragments were generated from the circular permutation vectors pICP4Bend and pAd2Bend ( 44 ) by digestion with the appropriate restriction enzymes ( Fig. 5A ) , dephosphorylated with calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase ( 50 ) and purified following agarose gel electrophoresis in 0.7% gels using Geneclean ( Bio 101 , La Jolla , Ca . ) . |
9 | We had no fear of crossing the roads and at times these were our playgrounds , playing cricket in Kent Road with an upturned box as wicket , a long stop watching for the 'bus leaving Halling Bottom . |
10 | I can spread the risk between all the various er , homes for the unit linking , funding in invests in , in various assets . |
11 | Now all of that is sensible enough for the holiday-maker taking his or her annual two weeks in the sun , but like many packages , there are strings attached . |
12 | The snails will eat the foam , presumably for the microflora living on it , or perhaps by mistake . |
13 | Plans of RBG buildings on microfiche are available from PSA and in the future may be available on disk for the PC running Autocad software . |
14 | The number of symptoms was computed for each subject and the groups were compared for the proportion having 1 and 2 symptoms . |
15 | During their stay , they were assessed for the module Experiencing Europe 2 . |
16 | There are , again , problems for the researcher hoping to test out such hypotheses . |
17 | But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary . |
18 | Tickets for the event featuring Jill 's Seconds garments are available at £1 by calling Ferryhill . |
19 | At night we listen for the sea freezing over . |
20 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
21 | Look for the hybrid flowering June July . |
22 | There was an overwhelming case for the State providing a basic pension but less of one for the State providing an additional pension as well . |
23 | There was an overwhelming case for the State providing a basic pension but less of one for the State providing an additional pension as well . |
24 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
25 | Taliesin had not thought it would be possible for the darkness surrounding the House to deepen , but it deepened in those minutes after Fael-Inis made his pronouncement . |
26 | Due to an increasing demand for the morale boosting treatment , the Red Cross is now looking for more Hand Care and Beauty Care volunteers to spend half a day each week with patients in local hospitals . |
27 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
28 | ‘ The prisoners are picked for the operation according to the severity of their crime . |
29 | Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) . |
30 | However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds . |