Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 2 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | ‘ It shall be the duty of the licensee to secure that — ( a ) no such occurrence involving nuclear matter as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee , being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties , or a combination of those and any toxic , explosive or other hazardous properties , of that nuclear matter ; and ( b ) no ionising radiations emitted during the period of the licensee 's responsibility — ( i ) from anything caused or suffered by the licensee to be on the site which is not nuclear matter ; or ( ii ) from any waste discharged ( in whatever form ) on or from the site , cause injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee . ’ |
| 4 | A Mareva injunction is one granted , either after judgment to the successful plaintiff or before trial to a plaintiff who has a good arguable case on the merits , restraining a defendant ‘ from dealing with or disposing of or removing from the jurisdiction ’ any or all of his assets . |
| 5 | However , dicta in Oakley v. Lyster went further and suggested that a bare denial of the plaintiff 's title unaccompanied by any possession of or dealing with the goods constituted conversion . |
| 6 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 7 | ‘ ( a ) to produce to the inspectors all … documents of or relating to the company … ( b ) to attend before the inspectors when required to do so , and ( c ) otherwise to give the inspectors all assistance in connection with the investigation which they are reasonably able to give . |
| 8 | And now you devote a whole issue ( NI 179 ) to a ridiculous game — giving gold medals to the countries you approve of and dumping on the countries you do n't . |
| 9 | On his ‘ Big Red Train Ride ’ in 1977 , Eric Newby found these class approaches to the catching of and waiting for the trains , which have been such a characteristic of colonial societies in India and Africa , still very much the norm in the communist countries . |
| 10 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 11 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 12 | They emerged as I began thinking about and writing about the data I collected . |
| 13 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 14 | It is also members of this group who have the strongest personal motivation for thinking about and working on the educational system , for they in the main are the teachers with young children of their own , at the beginning of their school careers . |
| 15 | Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party . |
| 16 | He further asserts that during the nineteenth century litigants did not understand the way courts worked and were in awe of their proceedings , and that the intermediaries between litigants and justice , lawyers , court officials and petition-drawers , had little sympathy with or understanding for the average Sri Lankan . |
| 17 | Instead of chewing into or biting off the leaves and shoots , the suckers are interested only in the liquid sap , which they obtain by probing a very fine tubular proboscis into the surface tissue cells . |
| 18 | to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of all shareholders are proportionate [ as nearly as may be ] to their holdings of such shares subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the directors may consider necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , statutory restrictions or legal or practical problems under or resulting from the application of the laws of any territory or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or stock exchange in any territory ; and |
| 19 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 20 | And there are many more up and coming in the wings — thankfully . |
| 21 | By praying with and sharing in the enthusiasm of the Elect there is an opportunity for all to turn to God and find the Holy Spirit anew . |
| 22 | Individuals , through love , become real social beings , each identifying with and loving through the other . |
| 23 | Ships — two- and three-masters — would frequently glide by as if on skates , coming from or going to the river 's mouth . |
| 24 | No person presently doing business with the Vendor nor any customer or supplier who is in the habit of purchasing from or selling to the Vendor ( as the case may be ) in relation to the Business will within twelve calendar months from Completion cease so to do or otherwise substantially reduce its purchase from or supplies to the Business . |
| 25 | To inquire into and thereby establish the fullest possible account and the civil liberties implications of the role of the police , the police authorities and the criminal courts in the events arising from and relating to the NUM dispute which began in March 1984 ( see NCCL Report 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Well I 've got the window back in and working with the hand thing but I need drills to drill holes for the fittings and it really |
| 27 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 28 | It adjusts the heat needed to incubate the egg by adding to or subtracting from the amount of compost piled above it . |
| 29 | Accordingly , the parties agree that each of them will accept my decision on the matters referred to me hereunder as conclusive and binding and that neither will bring any action or proceeding or make any claim against me as expert relating to or arising from the performance of my duties hereunder . |
| 30 | Often there is no intention to frustrate the child ; the rejections — such as not listening to or fobbing off the child — may be the consequences of the parent 's being too busy with chores or being tired and irritable after a day 's work , and so forth . |