Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We make money playing in the tube . ’ |
| 2 | It is a strange sight now to see vegetables growing on the pure white substrate . |
| 3 | It used to be thought by many scientists that the armoured plates stuck outwards , as in Stegosaurus , in order to hit enemies approaching from the side . |
| 4 | The silence and emptiness of the scene did not become apparent to her until she turned into the drive of the house and realized there were no other cars parked there , no gaily clad groups tripping towards the garden , no jazz band to summon them nor hired flunkeys to greet them , no pop of champagne corks nor buzz of conversation , no bunting , no balloons , no merriment of any kind . |
| 5 | Presently , he heard the foliage rustling behind him , and turned to see Walterkin coming over the edge of the roof . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that the sale agreement will treat income arising after the transfer date as belonging to the purchaser , the Inland Revenue are likely to treat it as income of the vendor . |
| 7 | The infant learns to talk of hearing its mother in the garden , smelling hamburgers cooking in the kitchen , or seeing the dog enjoying itself with a ball or being hurt by the cat . |
| 8 | Willis Faber is holding back almost half the shares until it receives shareholder backing for the sale at a meeting on November 29 . |
| 9 | I say , looking back to see Andy coming up the hill behind me , suddenly slowing and looking wary as he sees the man . |
| 10 | The package , allowing data sharing throughout the enterprise , is due for release in the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 11 | This year Biggin 's organisers are opening the show site a day early , on Friday 19 June , to give the public an opportunity to see aircraft arriving for the Air Fair and watch performers practising for the airshow . |
| 12 | But the official opening on December 2 was the first time outsiders had been allowed to see Tencel rolling off the spinning lines . |
| 13 | Conflict of Interest Rules : financial institutions are in a unique position of trust when handling funds belonging to the public . |
| 14 | The city has more Chartered Designers working within the city boundary than the rest of Scotland has as a whole . |
| 15 | The in-car shot showed catering leftovers splattering across the windscreen . |
| 16 | Although the methodology is of general applicability , it has been developed here using ARC/INFO running under the VMS operating system on a microVAX 2 . |
| 17 | Craft specialization is often subsidized at the redistribution centre in a chiefdom society , so we should expect to see crafts flourishing in the temple culture of bronze age Crete : we should also expect to see craftsmen gathering in the temples , where the agricultural surpluses and imports were collected and redistributed . |
| 18 | In December 1989 Kececiler 's faction persuaded the government to increase budget spending on the Religious Affairs Department by almost 240 per cent . |
| 19 | The wall surrounding the house next to the road was demolished , with large chunks of masonry and shell splinters whistling through the trees . |
| 20 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
| 21 | Apted places computer browsing in the category of specific browsing in that it must start " with a definition of requirements " and is systematic . |
| 22 | The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany referred by way of example to the possibility of requiring the relevant fishing vessel to operate from the member state in which it was registered , its crew to be affiliated to the social security scheme of that member state or supply contracts relating to the purchase of the catch to be concluded with local undertakings . |
| 23 | Using these data to inform decision making about the quality of care offered by different hospitals would obviously be problematic . |
| 24 | If managerial functions are to be carried out both efficiently and effectively , then it is a prerequisite that high quality information is available to inform decision making at the various managerial levels . |
| 25 | The sections which follow will examine the way in which high quality information can be gathered and used to inform decision making at the school level . |
| 26 | The mass spectrometer imposes electric and magnetic fields on the ions in such a way as to separate and count ions according to the ratio of mass to charge , and thus to establish the mass of the molecule . |
| 27 | They found Mum baking in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Her eyes are mud-coloured ; her eyes changed hue according to the contact lenses she wore ; he never looked her in the eye . |
| 29 | Note 46 to the accounts shows the effect on revenue and reserves of adopting equity accounting for the whole of the equity investment portfolio regardless of whether the investments are associated undertakings or not . |
| 30 | The candidate and unit enrolment data is cumulative in that , for example , the courses enrolled for in 1991–2 will include the new Batch 2 courses first validated for that year — but will also include candidates enrolling for the second cycle of Batch 1 , the third cycle of Phase 2 pilots , etc . |