Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE rise in share prices that followed the return of the Tories to power sharply reversed the falls that occurred following the announcement of a General Election . |
| 2 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 3 | Earlier in the Victorian period , in the winter of 1862 , panic swept through respectable London over a new variety of crime called ‘ garotting ’ , a type of violent robbery that involved choking the victim . |
| 4 | The new crime was called ‘ garotting ’ , a form of violent robbery that involved choking the victim . |
| 5 | CPRW was among a large number of bodies that opposed allowing the Hamilton Oil Company to drill an exploratory well in a very sensitive area of seabed close to Bardsey Island . |
| 6 | The clear message sent is that voters have lost faith in existing governing parties that enjoyed riding the long boom of the 1980s , but have no policies for a post-Berlin Wall Europe . |
| 7 | And it was the corn shop that started selling the dog and cat biscuits . |
| 8 | He was n't all that sorry to find an urgent message from Headquarters that meant leaving the glutinous pasta . |
| 9 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 10 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 11 | I still had time to kill , so I thought I 'd make a couple of ‘ phone calls and that meant employing the Middleditch gambit . |
| 12 | He took advantage of the situation that resulted following the death of the Emperor Henry VI , whose troops had been threatening Rome . |
| 13 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 14 | We 'd also had a double income and shared paying the bills , and I found I was petrified of getting into debt . |
| 15 | FRED 1 's proposals in respect of extraordinary items were generally well received , although several commentators wanted to see them taken one stage further and recommended banning the use of the category of extraordinary items . |
| 16 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |
| 17 | A data set to 2.5Å was collected on a Nicolet multiwire area detector mounted on a Rigaku rotating anode and evaluated using the Buddha program . |
| 18 | UltraFAX was the best of the bundled packages I looked at , by a long way , and made using the Ascom AM2496F a joy . |
| 19 | The Thatcher government in the 1980s recognized this and made reducing the PSBR the central feature of its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 20 | Today managing director Ian Dury appeared before Banbury magistrates and admitted breaking the Health and Safety at work act . |
| 21 | She has taken the issues raised in Woman to Woman and produced Entering the Masquerade . |
| 22 | The data were off loaded to a computer ( Amstrad PC1640 , IBM-compatible ) and processed using the Esophagram software ( Gastrosoft Ltd , USA ) . |
| 23 | The data were collected and processed using the PECSS2 software package ( Perkin Elmer ) . |
| 24 | Prof Pikas said his methods were non-accusatory , and involved asking the bully for a solution to the problem , bringing together the bully and the victim , and discussing ways they can live together . |
| 25 | Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night . |
| 26 | Accordingly , difference and Sim-weighted Fourier maps phased from the protein model were calculated at 20–4Å resolution , and inspected using the computer graphics program FRODO . |
| 27 | All of the information was then coded and entered into a mainframe computer ( IBM 3083 ) , and analysed using the SPSSX statistical package . |
| 28 | The children did n't talk about the kidnapping , but kept glancing out of the windows and stopped trusting the adults who looked after them . |
| 29 | Charles had persuaded Miles to stop and tried ringing the bell on the gate . |
| 30 | I thought of the shoppers ’ day trips to Northern Ireland in search of cheap goods , and tried enumerating the benefits Ireland might receive from a Reunion with the rest of Britain . |