Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 2 | Spinal trabecular bone mineral density was measured in the anterior part of the first three lumbar vertebrae by quantitative computed tomography ( Philips Tomoscan 350 CT scanner ) using amodification of the method of Cann and Genant . |
| 3 | Males continue to court in the way they do because if a male were to stop producing part of the species ' typical display , females would not mate with him . |
| 4 | It was a practice requiring the submission of the lower classes on the street , yet at the same time reflecting subordination of the constables to the whims of senior officers and to a manipulative body of law . |
| 5 | The first-generation immigrant , however zealously he or she tried to learn the techniques of the new life , lived in a self-imposed ghetto , drawing support from the old ways , the men of his kind , the memories of the old country which he had so readily abandoned . |
| 6 | Already my body was beginning to feel restless : demanding reunification with the object of its yearning . |
| 7 | Coldness , blueness , or numbness of the injury , or the part beyond the injury , suggesting damage to the blood or nervous supply of that area . |
| 8 | The problem is overcome , at least partially , by using money as the unit of measurement — this greatly simplifies the adding up , but it gives rise to the problem of distinguishing between real and nominal values . |
| 9 | Now their pension money has been frozen while trustees investigate certain deals made using money from the fund . |
| 10 | It was paid for by the county using money from the national Transport Road Research Laboratory . |
| 11 | The US exporter has now been paid , using money from the UK bank 's NOSTRO account . |
| 12 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 13 | The family and the media , it can be argued , both work at an ideological level in perpetuating inequality of the sexes , while firms which pay lower wages to female workers operate at a material level . |
| 14 | Literature is an innovative resource book which offers the teacher a wide variety of interesting and practical ideas for using literature in the language class . |
| 15 | FIG. 1 a , Stereo drawing using MOLSCRIPT of the crystallographic asymmetric unit which consists of a planar pentamer complex of five CypA molecules bound to five CsA molecules . |
| 16 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 17 | Ruggiero does n't accept that , perhaps because it would mean accepting responsibility for the way his son 's turned out . ’ |
| 18 | All the time , the silence in the car was broken by the harsh , rattling breathing of the occupant in the back seat . |
| 19 | The Open University was also the subject of debate between Alix Bowen and Teddy Lazenby of the Department of Education and Science : Alix 's face was expressing a most delicate mixture of disbelief , disapprobation and polite attention as Teddy , somewhat indiscreetly presuming on their long , if long-interrupted , acquaintance , revealed what were clearly his own opinions on the inadvisability of wasting money on the education of housewives and taxi drivers . |
| 20 | Victoria continued to wear handed-down Liberty dresses from Aunt Rose 's daughters , and wasting money by the excessive use of electric light , hot water or heating appliances was a vice which Pamela rigorously discouraged in children and servants . |
| 21 | Adding some hormone rooting powder to the wound can help the plant establish new roots . |
| 22 | It can just as easily be seen as Britain accepting subservience under the US in preference to engaging in fuller European economic cooperation . |
| 23 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 24 | This offer failed to impress GFT and , having taken some informal advice from their company solicitors on winding-up procedures , instructed the local firm of Sam Sword and Spade , debt collectors , to serve a formal notice demanding payment of the outstanding £1250 ( see below ) . |
| 25 | The Exchequer was now demanding payment of the fines , and the duke was informed that the Earl of Mar , as Secretary of State , had secured a remission of the fine for one of his friends ; Montrose 's dependent , getting quickly to the point , inquired whether ‘ your Gr[ace] can without truble tip a wink to any of the Barrounes [ of Exchequer ] for Wattie and me ’ . |
| 26 | But last Friday he was astonished to receive a letter from the council saying a liability order had been granted by the magistrates and demanding payment of the £60 , together with £15 court costs . |
| 27 | In rural areas , ANDES members were established as leaders of the radical opposition to the regime and in the 1972 elections were fundamental in organizing support for the opposition coalition , the UNO . |
| 28 | The carer may be under too much stress , both physically and mentally , to cope with paperwork relating to such matters as the patient 's sick pay from work , relevant insurance claims , or simply organizing payment of the normal household bills . |
| 29 | However , in seeing hope beyond the pain of the moment , Skin have lost their greatest hold on us . |
| 30 | However , in seeing hope beyond the pain of the moment , Skin have lost their greatest hold on us . |