Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back , says the Jockey Club , the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry . |
| 2 | They crush their victim in their pincers , but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry . |
| 3 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 4 | The landowner could terminate the tenancy at his pleasure , but , given the nature of farming , at pleasure would normally mean giving notice on certain days of the year , and allowing the tenant six months , principally in order to gather such crops as he may have planted . |
| 5 | The vendor will resist allowing the purchaser such an option . |
| 6 | Sharing the humanist outlook of the continental reformer , Desiderius Erasmus , they were in favour of allowing the laity easy access to English translations of the Bible , placing a greater emphasis on preaching , and instituting simplified forms of worship , stripped of superstitious practices such as the worship of relics and images . |
| 7 | a paper size in the series of ISO international paper sizes slightly larger than the A series allowing the printer extra space to bleed . |
| 8 | According to Jung , a simpler nature works on a more complicated one ‘ like a room that is too small ’ , not allowing the partner enough space . |
| 9 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 10 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 11 | The key here is to take as little sand as possible , just clipping the ball off the top of the sand , contacting the ball first then the sand . |
| 12 | Ken was mowing the lawn that afternoon . |
| 13 | He believed that liberty was best preserved by maintaining the balance implicit in the guiding legal principles of the constitution . |
| 14 | Building the Lifeboat illuminated car in 1926 , demanded some knowledge of boat-building , as seen here . |
| 15 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 16 | An Herefordshire company , Border Oak , is building the oak framed houses . |
| 17 | It was the first time he had conceded a game since building the device three years earlier . |
| 18 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 19 | Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house . |
| 20 | Ljubic Peric , my Croatian guide , believes that Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , is stalling over the Vance-Owen plan in anticipation of violence here between Muslims and Croats thus proving the plan impractical . |
| 21 | It is proving the nightmare many anticipated . |
| 22 | All statistics were calculated using the ARCUS Professional statistics package . |
| 23 | ‘ You know Uncle Heini when he gets the bit between his teeth , ’ Schellenberg told him , using the nickname common in the SS behind Himmler 's back . |
| 24 | Close-up photography can be done using the standard 50 mm lens which comes with the camera , providing extension tubes or bellows are used . |
| 25 | Marsh and Sager ( 1982 ) took such an approach with their analysis of a set of medical records written in compact text ( i.e. terse form ) again using the NYU Linguistic String Project parser . |
| 26 | Experienced users have direct access to the main data files using the INFO relational database management system query language . |
| 27 | After extraction and HPLC-fractionation of the samples , the appropriate eluates are subjected to RIA using the PGE 2 antiserum , that cross-reacts with PGE 3 at 14% . |
| 28 | If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative . |
| 29 | Some of us avoid using the word 1 . |
| 30 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |