Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For good or ill , they may not agree with the way things have turned out , or are developing at the moment . |
| 2 | Over one thousand of the three and half thousand Old Somervillians have given or are giving to the Appeal . |
| 3 | Most EC countries are either in recession or are scraping along the bottom with chronic low growth and rising unemployment . |
| 4 | An organised approach has the best chance of success in those areas where local councils are anti or are teetering on the verge of becoming so . |
| 5 | Alternatively you can join in activities on a daily basis if you live or are holidaying in the area . |
| 6 | On the surface it has no problem with it — it either has or is moving towards the technologies at issue , but it wants more information before it lends any support . |
| 7 | WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ . |
| 8 | 25. ( 1 ) Any Director may at any time appoint another Director or any other person being a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is a member or officer of or is working in the practice of the Company approved by the Directors to be his alternate Director and may at any time terminate such appointment . |
| 9 | 25. ( 1 ) Any Director may at any time appoint another Director or any other person being a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is a member or officer of or is working in the practice of the Company approved by the Directors to be his alternate Director and may at any time terminate such appointment . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 11 | There , is the same true in countries that are developing at the moment ? |
| 12 | The aim of the book is to generate awareness of office supplies that are damaging to the environment and promote the purchase of more environment-friendly products such as recycled paper , non-tropical hardwood desks etc . |
| 13 | Most importantly the heads can contain terms that are binding on the vendor and purchaser . |
| 14 | I also understand from meetings , I 'm meeting a group of social workers as I call them , that are dealing with the people with learning difficulties , erm , these are at present taking place in the Castle Hall . |
| 15 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 16 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 17 | Chair , the point about the schools is that we could put that information in the minutes for the next meeting , schools that are participating in the survey . |
| 18 | Avoid specimens that are swimming off the aquarium bottom as this is a sign of distress and usually means an imbalance of water has occurred at some stage of the export/importation process . |
| 19 | Using ‘ government ’ instead of ‘ state ’ , carries important trigger connotations of accountability to electors that are missing from the coercive feel of the term ‘ state ’ . |
| 20 | By reducing the size of the lexicon the number of words that the author wrote that are missing from the lexicon increases . |
| 21 | Obviously there are a number of detailed points and these are just the ones that are coming off the top of this meeting and you will have more when you take them home and , and read them . |
| 22 | Now whether that is that they are annoyed that there is n't childcare facilities , or whether they 're annoyed that they have to make dinner for their husbands , or whether they 're annoyed with what 's on television , or at the kind of newspapers that are coming in the door or whatever . |
| 23 | They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them . |
| 24 | Would my honourable friend er recognise that just up the River Thames from er the South Thames tech is the Surrey tech which is doing and excellent job with local industry in re-skilling particularly younger people and this partnership with industry , not just dependent on what the government does , but what industry itself does to try and help people get back into jobs with the new challenges that are coming from the difficulties that are presented by higher calibre needed particularly for school leavers and other and will he w would she welcome the Surrey tech 's initiative ? |
| 25 | Thin overcrowded new shoots and any that are growing into the centre of plants . |
| 26 | The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available . |
| 27 | But these are not organised , structured animal societies — they are abnormal explosions of the locust population and they carry with them the seeds of their own downfall , as do modern human populations that are heading in the same direction . |
| 28 | It is a package with measures to promote investment and provide capital allowances similar to those that industry and commerce are begging for — pleas that are falling on the deaf ears of the Chancellor . |
| 29 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 30 | One wonders if , you know , the situation , close to us , Bosnia and the other countries that are suffering in the rest of the world , would occupy their thoughts . |