Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes driving brings the traveller to Horn , an ancient fishing village lying in a slight recession in the coast , and then the road continues to Rorschach . |
| 2 | The journey back on the four mile journey took 24 minutes against 27 for the outward one , the brakesmen on both bogie trailer cars helping to control the descent . |
| 3 | Equity entry is of crucial concern to the large numbers of trained and talented drama school finalists seeking to enter the business every year . |
| 4 | Had a good view of the first half chances , especially in the early period and despite the opportunities looking promising the finishing was really crap — the kop seemed to feel that we were never going to score and it was a relief that Deano actually managed to put it in the net from 6 yards . |
| 5 | In 1747 the postmaster of Stirling was one of the magistrates , Bailie Maiben , and it was made clear enough that his job was at stake in the political contest of that year , for Sir Peter Halkett of Pitfirrane , one of the candidates seeking to represent the district in parliament , complained to Lord Milton that the bailie |
| 6 | For the ‘ middle classes ’ , then , heterogeneity of social origin must be added to heterogeneity of socio-economic position as another factor tending to render problematic any clear ‘ class ’ designation ( or in other words tending to reduce the degree to which the term ‘ middle class ’ identifies a pertinent social collectivity ) . |
| 7 | Such responses would be free of eye-velocity signals , but at the same time would be contaminated by visual signals or higher command signals acting to cancel the VOR . |
| 8 | ‘ Is burying yourself under the covers going to provide the answer to your problems ? ’ he asked sceptically . |
| 9 | The Ford swung sharply into East 34th Street , mounted the kerb , and narrowly missed a couple of teenagers waiting to cross the road . |
| 10 | Completion of this latter 5½ km ( 3½ mile ) section in 1981 gave considerable relief not only to the residents of the Colinton area , who , for some time , had been experiencing increasing traffic congestion in and around Colinton Village , but also to drivers attempting to avoid the city centre . |
| 11 | The special needs of different categories of the physically handicapped were recognized first by individual philanthropists and this led to the establishment of numerous national and local voluntary organizations aiming to promote the welfare of the disabled . |
| 12 | Readers wishing to run the SYMAP program on their local computer system will need to supply different Job Control instructions unless their computer centre is equipped with an ICL computer running under the VME operating system . |
| 13 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 14 | Tens of millions of reprint requests are mailed each year , the authors having identified the existence of the papers from secondary sources . |
| 15 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 16 | The man had eaten a wolf before he died , all other animals having fled the winter . |
| 17 | When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick . |
| 18 | MORE than 6,000 Bosnians trying to flee the fighting in Sarajevo were left furious yesterday after Red Cross evacuation convoys were suspended . |
| 19 | The shooting took place after two OMON units trying to intercept the bus had chased it into the centre of Vilnius . |
| 20 | The ambusher sprints ahead to find the place where he will hide in the leaves , while the chasers move in front of the driver and run along the branches trying to grab the monkey and chasing it towards the place where the ambusher sits hidden . |
| 21 | However , official sources in Dublin have advised fans planning to make the trip to submit travel-document applications immediately . |
| 22 | A –rain of plastic sailed stunters , with tubular tails trailing to follow the flight path , as that great showman Peter Powell steers them from the sunroof of a moving car . |
| 23 | To a revision of the poem published in 1803 he added the lines , ‘ Methinks , it should have been impossible/Not to love all things in a World like this ’ , his words seeming to carry the weight of his later regret that his unclouded times with Sara were so quickly over . |
| 24 | Vets spent 2 hours operating to reset the wing . |
| 25 | His 1541 parliament issued a string of acts seeking to underwrite the authority of the pope ( despite his own highly cavalier and damaging treatment of the papacy ) , to insist on greater respect and reverence for the sacraments , for the Virgin and saints , and for statues and images , and to reform ‘ kirks and kirkmen ’ so that divine service might be properly held , and churchmen better equipped to hold it . |
| 26 | Other and smaller breweries coming under Palatine control were closed down and the premises sold ( the proceeds helping to finance the redevelopment programmes ) . |
| 27 | SMALL companies wanting to join the stock market have a new champion in the City Group for Smaller Companies ( CISCO ) . |
| 28 | The Chemical Industries Asociation , which has organised the new insurance cover , said stringent pollution tests would be applied to companies wanting to buy the cover . |
| 29 | However , serious action to close the loopholes in the law will have to wait on the parliamentary timetable and the European legislation , until then , with more and more companies wanting to know the truth about their employees , competitors and suppliers , and with more and more information being put onto computers , the trade in personal data looks set to thrive . |
| 30 | In the ensuing riot , a hut containing refugees seeking to flee the violence , mainly northerners , was set on fire . |