Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources . |
| 2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 3 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 4 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 5 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 6 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 7 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 8 | There have to be big spending cuts and bigger interest rate cuts , the latter compensating for the former . |
| 9 | It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software . |
| 10 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 11 | This is particularly important if there are others bidding for the same house . |
| 12 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 13 | Slater , of Redcar Road , Middlesbrough , admitted reckless driving , assault and criminal damage in April and was jailed for four months and banned from driving for the same period . |
| 14 | In addition , it is obvious that it can not be relied on until there has been a substantial amount of trading between the same parties . |
| 15 | The method is for , say , a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job . |
| 16 | When carrying out levelling operations in the garden always be sure to keep the fertile topsoil and infertile subsoil separate , if necessary disposing of the latter . |
| 17 | 53 ( 1 ) ( c ) [ A ] disposition of an equitable interest or trust subsisting at the time of the disposition , must be in writing signed by the person disposing of the same , or by his agent thereunto lawfully authorised in writing or by will . |
| 18 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 19 | FOLLOWING the success of three previous seminars Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is holding a fourth talk shop on trading with the former East Germany . |
| 20 | The links that have developed in networking with the many voluntary groups that operate in the areas and the recognition of the individuals right to self-esteem and to develop an expertise in relation to living and functioning in their many roles , has changed my way of working with people — probably forever . |
| 21 | We 're now walking into the This is the canteen . |
| 22 | This summer he will be holidaying with the same friends with whom he shared his Holiday in Hell ( page 50 ) , although their destination this time is in the South of France . |
| 23 | He came on , walking in the same direction as Rachaela , the dilute snow sparkling in his hat like sequins . |
| 24 | In his speech Kozyrev had accused Western powers of interfering in the former Soviet Union , claimed the right to use military action in the area , and threatened to come to the aid of Serbia . |
| 25 | Here is another chapter opening from the same children 's book . |
| 26 | The dynamical processes occurring in the latter are not dissimilar from those in a wake , but the inner region requires its own model . |
| 27 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 28 | The question for us now is whether these new forms of growth are occurring in the same geographical labour market areas as those of factory and public sector job losses . |
| 29 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 30 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |