Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Myndie Snake would find them and drip venom upon them , poisoning the water and burning them where they hid . |
| 2 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 3 | Sucking the wool and making it damp enhances the lanolin odour , and this keeps the cats contented and fully absorbed in their sucking and chewing . |
| 4 | The partially closed window holds the foam in place , allowing the cable or hose free movement . , |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 6 | The local authority now appeals from the making of those prohibitive steps orders on a number of grounds and seeks an order from this court by allowing the appeal and granting an interim care order under which the local authority would intend to keep the mother and children together and have them placed , as indeed they are now , at a mother and baby home . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal and quashing the order , that the judge had failed to specify the fees to be disallowed and had adopted an inappropriate procedure ; and that , in any event , there had been no unreasonable act or omission capable of founding an order under section 19A of the Act ( post , pp. 665G — 666B , G ) . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal and the cross-appeal , that under the terms of the mortgage and other deeds the defendants were entitled to recover their actual costs , charges and expenses except for any costs that had not been reasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount ; that both litigation and non-litigation costs could be referred to a taxing for quantification ; that the defendants were contractually entitled to payment on an indemnity basis as defined by R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) ; that the court 's discretion as to the basis of taxation of a mortgagee 's costs , charges and expenses should normally be exercised so as to correspond with the contractual entitlement ; and that , accordingly , the master had power to order that the contractual costs , charges and expenses and the costs incurred in the litigation be taxed on an indemnity basis including those costs ordered to be taxed on a standard basis ( post , pp. 735E–F , 736B–C , 737E–F , 739A–C , 741H — 742D , E–H ) . |
| 10 | The court also upheld a series of decrees allowing the seizure and confiscation of suspected traffickers ' personal property . |
| 11 | They spurred each other on , allowing the action and the words to flow naturally . |
| 12 | A sand bar was dredged , allowing the passenger and excursion steamers to make better use of the port . |
| 13 | A major failure of the Congress , as identified by Yeltsin and attributed to its composition in that it was weighted in favour of the conservatives , was the refusal to endorse a clause in the draft constitution allowing the sale and privatization of land . |
| 14 | This system , when finished , will permit the management of a large group of sources , allowing the extraction and manipulation of serial data relevant to the analysis of international transactions costs and market structures , as well as a structural analysis of the underlying patterns of merchant behaviour . |
| 15 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 16 | What remains is the suggestion that contextual cues present during associative learning acquire a conditional function allowing the use or retrieval of the information encoded in associative links . |
| 17 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 18 | The amount of discretion relative to the amount of prescribed action only increases as one moves to higher occupational strata , thus allowing the enlargement and fulfilment of personal needs . |
| 19 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 20 | In May 1961 a girl to whom Archbishop Fisher allowed a flat in Lambeth Tower when she and a husband were desperate for a place to live walked her pram round the courtyard , and observed the two archbishops also circling the courtyard and deep in conversation . |
| 21 | Stroking and circling the chin and jaw |
| 22 | The boys in the group , around 15 years old I would imagine , spent the evening defoliating the live trees circling the campsite and building a monstrous fire , which threatened the tents downwind . |
| 23 | Most of the dissenting ( Covenanting ) ministers took other jobs and waited in hope for the ruling to be reversed , at peace with their consciences by having adhered to their principles , but many felt it incumbent upon them to continue with their vocation , preaching the gospel and making true Presbyterianism available to the people . |
| 24 | Thus a dual democratisation , encompassing the state and civil society , is necessary to provide active citizenship . |
| 25 | The Gnomes broke into wide grins at this and said was n't impressing the thing and Floy in the right of it , and impress was what they 'd set out to do and had n't Floy the way with words ? |
| 26 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 27 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) ’ This point is proved by naming the street and in nine times out of ten will cause no problems . |
| 28 | Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country . |
| 29 | Surviving on imported pasta and freshly baked pizza , the Italians are a crucial part of the United Nations operation that has the job of maintaining the peace and running elections in a country emerging from 16 years of civil war . |
| 30 | Ironically , the cost of maintaining the manpower and machinery necessary for this performance killed the Evening News . |