Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc .
2 Martin leaned forward , his face touching that of the angel 's , as he raised his arm to strike .
3 Offsetting that with the Smith Mark , losses and the one-time provision for the Penguin U S Leases , that was all taken care of in nineteen ninety one and the benefit from our fully benefit from our ninety one acquisitions and little bit in ninety two .
4 I 'm sure I could find him now , but I have made a vow that I am not going to tell anyone where he is , for the man is innocent and has no hope of proving that at the moment .
5 Unfortunately , he will not be proving that in the Derby .
6 incorporating that on the way round .
7 However , the PC standard has moved away from original CGA toward EGA , VGA and even higher resolutions , so easing the display problem , while operating system vendors such as Microsoft and Digital Research have delivered environments closely matching that of the Macintosh .
8 Indeed , the number of defective 20th Century items comes close to matching that of the largest single chronological grouping of defective items , composed of 19th Century publications .
9 I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it .
10 Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months .
11 Many portraits of infant boys appear to have a hairstyle resembling that of the emperor Trajan ( AD 98–117 ) .
12 Secondly , there are offences intended to prevent anyone wrongly claiming to have supplied goods to the Queen ( or to anyone else ) or wrongly claiming royal approval , e.g. by displaying an emblem resembling that of the Queen 's Award to Industry .
13 The Polish Republic was proclaimed in December 1989 , its name replacing that of the Polish People 's Republic , adopted in 1947 .
14 The financial measures consistently improved the lot of the already better off while worsening that of the badly off … such a Government can not promote community . ’
15 It is worth noting that of the course proposals which fell at this hurdle most were of a very high standard .
16 Sapphires owed their attraction to their blue colour , recalling that of the long-treasured lapis lazuli , and were eagerly appropriated by Hellenistic and Roman jewellers .
17 The history of the Czech cinema since then reads like a frequently funny if terrible farce , mirroring that of the country as a whole .
18 The decision of the House of Lords in R v. Greater London Council ex parte Bromley London Borough Council ( 1981 ) , confirming that of the Court of Appeal , has been widely regarded as a political decision , no doubt because it gave a ruling in an acutely political controversy .
19 ‘ Are n't you wearing that to the party ? ’
20 She evidently saw no difficulty in reconciling that with the fact that the man she hoped to marry was training to become a doctor .
21 The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms .
22 One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini .
23 dropped us in the cart then by getting that with the chocolates in .
24 Imagine accompanying that on the bagpipes !
25 There were few outcries by settlers , as in France with regard to Indo-China and Algeria , no crisis comparable with the chaotic fate of the former Belgian Congo , no agony approaching that of the United States over Vietnam .
26 From this work , a substantial research report was published in September 1992 on how income and environment affect health , on a scale and depth approaching that of the Black report in Britain .
27 We reach densities approaching that of the atomic nucleus , so it 's about one hundredth of a second after the start that there is a real threshold .
28 The status of his work for some approaching that of the sacred book .
29 Charles had long since ceased to delude himself that he had any immovable principles on anything , but he felt something approaching that on the subject of abortion .
30 Without ever approaching that with the metropolis in magnitude , coastal trade between provincial ports probably increased at a faster rate .
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