Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party wrestled with the problem by linking demands for disarmament with plans for legislation guaranteeing the Right to Work . |
| 2 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Inc has hired Fred Newall , former vice-president of NCR Europe , to head-up its European operations as vice-president following the departure of Pierre Donaldson . |
| 3 | Research in the 1970s and 1980s showed a link between lead entering the body and the state of health . |
| 4 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 5 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 6 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 7 | GUIDELINES FOR GROUP DOING THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM |
| 8 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 9 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 10 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 11 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 12 | Scottish women have spent a great deal of time discussing the pros and cons of being an older women , but what 's it like being young in Scotland in nineteen ninety two ? |
| 13 | I could spend a great deal of time extolling the history of the two countries . |
| 14 | The neon lights outside were barely visible through the sheen of condensation coating the inside of the cafe window . |
| 15 | Styles changed to suit the visitors ' demands , and with volume and speed of production becoming the prime considerations , standards of craftsmanship steadily declined . |
| 16 | If it is proposed that the target should pay any of its directors compensation for loss of office following the implementation of the scheme , then an ordinary resolution of the target may be required to sanction the payments . |
| 17 | He had not noticed any skin rash and was surprised to be told that his symptom was a direct result of syphilis affecting the auditory nerve . |
| 18 | No particular experiences are linked with any particular statements in the interior of the field , except indirectly through considerations of equilibrium affecting the field as a whole . |
| 19 | CIS Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 12 to agree an agenda for a Heads of Government meeting the following day . |
| 20 | The 12 member country heads of government attending the Maastricht meeting had all been at the Rome summit and at Luxembourg in June 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] . |
| 21 | The group of Principals and Heads of Department attending the workshop worked extremely hard and enthusiastically on some of the key issues relating to change in the context of their work at the University . |
| 22 | Depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin obviating the need for drawing up and simplifying the procedure for when patients are out and about . |
| 23 | Another independent piece of evidence corroborating the Westermarck hypothesis is provided by stable incestuous relationships ( Weinberg , 1956 ) . |
| 24 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most entertaining tale came late afternoon , with anonymous telephone calls stating that a nosey employee of Marks & Spencer ( down 1 at 329p ) having been called in to deputy chairman Clinton Silver 's office , saw a piece of paper suggesting the retailer was set to bid the debt-laden supermarket group , Asda ( off ½ at 31p ) . |
| 26 | When the children arrive , provide them with a piece of paper listing the clues and with a space to record each letter that is found . |
| 27 | An application by the Uttar Pradesh government in October 1991 to acquire 2.77 acres of land adjoining the mosque , which had been allowed by a court in Lucknow [ see p. 38532 ] was rejected by the Supreme Court on Dec. 11 . |
| 28 | After frustrating years in which they had covered acres of print discussing the sociological theory and implications of newspaper readership , they wanted to compete in the more popular market . |
| 29 | The rule of recognition providing the criteria by which the validity of other rules of the system is assessed is in an important sense , which we shall try to clarify , an ultimate rule : and where , as is usual , there are several criteria ranked in order of relative subordination and primacy one of them is supreme … |
| 30 | In previous studies in the rat , we reproduced the intermittent duodenal acid exposure that occurs physiologically , and observed that pulses of acid entering the duodenum trigger a response of adaptive cytoprotection by the duodenal mucosa and stimulate the release of cytoprotective prostaglandins into the duodenal lumen . |