Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 2 | The first army , consisting mostly of the Kislevites and fast-moving mounted troops , marched with all speed to Praag in the hope of relieving the siege . |
| 3 | This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city . |
| 4 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Certainly , the bringing together of the ACL:E&SS , a senior inspector and Principal Adviser for Educational Resources on such a team makes splendid sense and in itself promotes the fifth of the project 's objectives . |
| 6 | It is true that Hastings ' own gains in this period were modest , consisting only of the mastership of the mint , but his interests were respected . |
| 7 | It is true that Hastings ' own gains in this period were modest , consisting only of the mastership of the mint , but his interests were respected . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the crowding together of the poor in slums was seen to be dangerous — debilitating to health and facilitating possibly seditious communication of the kind which had led to the riots in Trafalgar Square in 1886 . |
| 9 | Construction of hydroelectric dams not only removes the opportunity for adjacent populations to interbreed , it also utterly changes the characteristics of the river , with siltation and often stagnation occurring upstream of the barrier . |
| 10 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 11 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 12 | Temperature was talked of in the context of some hundreds of millions of degrees Centigrade , necessary for the stripping away of the electron from the hydrogen atom , vital for the removal of the hydrostatic repulsive forces of the nuclei , leaving them free to collide . |
| 13 | The court only gives leave to serve interrogatories if necessary for disposing fairly of the action , or for saving costs , and before giving leave will consider whether particulars , admissions , or production of documents have been offered ( RSC Ord 26 , r 1(3) ) . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order . |
| 15 | A ‘ permanent staff ’ , consisting largely of the original prisoners , remained to run the camp . |
| 16 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 17 | Imagine a model person living upstream of the model mountains . |
| 18 | This pushing onwards of the chronological stages over the centuries partly reflects a second , more fundamental transformation : the cumulative impact of changes in health and demography . |
| 19 | At the very end of his lite , writing again of the importance of how his experience as a homosexual had pushed him along the path of revolt , and recalling joyfully one of his lovers , Mala , Gide adds : |
| 20 | Warnings were issued to 5,000 people living downwind of the fire to stay indoors and keep windows closed . |
| 21 | ‘ Already there seems to me to be in existence a new kind of human being who is living ahead of the meaning of our time , knowing only that meaning has to be lived before it can be known . ’ |
| 22 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 23 | Thus , while the French economy ( as well as that of West Germany ) was clearly pulling ahead of the British , de Gaulle was eager to go his own way and even defy the United States ( not least in economic matters ) wherever it seemed appropriate . |
| 24 | CONSUMER confidence and spending were improving ahead of the decision by John Major to call an election , suggesting that the economy might have started to pull out of recession but for worries about the election outcome . |
| 25 | I had heard my mother 's friends sometimes whispering ruefully of The Change , but I saw the loss of innocence as the greatest and the worst change . |
| 26 | Its aim is , through the getting together of the highest quality of thinking and perception , to become an unstoppably persuasive force to others in alliance . |
| 27 | I mean again you know , this is speaking personally of the trade , |
| 28 | Within crofting , and this is important , I am speaking only of the small part-time crofts , on poor land , found in Lewis and Harris and along parts of the western mainland coast . |
| 29 | I 'm speaking only of the United States , here , where there was a huge low in music . |
| 30 | In terms , for instance , of the teaching of reading it was said that if children were not taught to read great books the result would be a wearing away of the national culture . |