Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The world 's exotica is over there , parading for all the universe to see , and you are here … ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless , even allowing for all the frailties of palaeontologists , there still remains a remarkable picture of palaeontological persistence . |
| 3 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
| 4 | Restricting your consumption of fats is a sound way to lose weight and a healthy way of eating for all the family . |
| 5 | His osteopath had premises near Regent 's Park and all the way Berg kept apologizing for all the trouble he was causing and Rain kept assuring him it was none at all . |
| 6 | ‘ We are building a team at Hillsborough which will be challenging for all the honours in the game . |
| 7 | You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really . |
| 8 | More importantly , I can see that I am very effectively disposing of all the apparent or alleged similarities between Daniel Miller and myself . |
| 9 | And it was not the option of walking behind all the way to Winchester . |
| 10 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
| 11 | The Jews were walking into all the plum jobs , in the medical profession especially , which infuriated Odilo and his friends , and which , to be frank , even worried me . |
| 12 | ‘ RCA have been really understanding in all the things we do . |
| 13 | He later joined the CNES management , before becoming in 1986 the secretary general of the Eureka committee — the French-inspired project for European co-operation in high technologies . |
| 14 | By the mid-1930s his work was regularly appearing in all the society magazines as well as in Harper 's Bazaar ( then under the creative art editorship of AY McPeake ) , in the company of his avant-garde contemporaries such as Rose Pulham , Winifred Casson and Barbara Ker-Seymer and other innovators of the time . |
| 15 | He ranged widely , soliciting in 1741 the office of sutler of Stirling Castle , believed to be profitable , and at the same time the contract to clothe Lord Loudoun 's independent company permanently stationed in the castle . |
| 16 | Rayner Heppenstall , in The Connecting Door ( 1962 ) , establishes two different eras in which his characters exist simultaneously , and , in a later novel , Two Moons ( 1977 ) , concurrently sustains stories set in two different months , one appearing on all the left-hand pages of the novel , the other on the right . |
| 17 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 18 | From the window ledge in the living room I saw men dressed in dark clothes and wearing dark hats knocking on all the doors in the street . |
| 19 | What is happening to all the waste ? |
| 20 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 21 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 22 | This is due to factors relating to both the design of the dictionary from which the definitions are taken , and the purpose of the text being recognised . |
| 23 | The labour input can be defined as consisting of all the human attributes which are used in producing goods and services and , as such , it differs from the inputs of the other factors of production in one major respect . |
| 24 | The remuneration committee , consisting of all the independent directors , determines the employment terms and total remuneration of the executive directors and the amounts to be appropriated to employees through the profit sharing scheme . |
| 25 | The evidence then given , consisting of both the questions of the prosecutor and Price 's answers to those questions , was recorded on tape . |
| 26 | Although both the homologous HSV octamer and that derived from HPV 16/18 readily competed for binding of both the complexes , the sequence from the HPV 6/11 URR was unable to do so . |
| 27 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |
| 28 | And when you get to the branch you get your bumf and you sit there looking through all the bumf . |
| 29 | The process of ( a ) searching the index to find the address of the required record , and then ( b ) going directly to that address , will be considerably faster than searching through all the records on a sequential file . |
| 30 | New lawyers acting for two the three defendants accused Galligan of racism and incompetence and suggested that they would appeal against the sentences . |