Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually involve a combination of the following organisational arrangements : ( 1 ) The physical separation of the various departments , often extending to matters of detail such as dining arrangements ; ( 2 ) An educational programme normally recurring to emphasise the importance of not improperly or inadvertently divulging confidential information ; ( 3 ) Strict and carefully defined procedures for dealing with a situation where it is considered that the wall should be crossed and the maintaining of proper records where this occurs : ( 4 ) Monitoring by compliance officers of the effectiveness of the wall , including the monitoring of employee trading ; and ( 5 ) Disciplinary sanctions where there has been an improper breach of the wall . |
| 2 | TAKE That 's heart-throb Robbie Williams caught with his mouth full trying to break the record the number of cheese and fish paste sandwiches that can be eaten in an hour . |
| 3 | Pale grey summer suit , ready-made but a perfect fit ; neat hair already beginning to match the suit ; and , what pleases me most , this trim matching beard to bridge most of the gap between suit and hair . |
| 4 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 5 | One imagines him , when a small boy repeatedly refusing to leave the crease when found LBW . |
| 6 | But is the private sector really going to provide the investment and planning needed for this sudden introduction of information technology ? |
| 7 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 8 | It followed that the interference by the English courts did not correspond to a social need sufficiently pressing to outweigh the public interest in freedom of expression . |
| 9 | It was just after he had come home in 1945 , with his raw imagination still straining to assimilate the only excitements of his life and the strange dust of Italy and Egypt still upon his boots . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , in Chungking , we see the Kuomintang general villainously plotting to defeat the guerrillas , with his equally villainous lieutenant , both dressed in rakish American-style uniforms . |
| 11 | She 'd been back to the shop twice hoping to chase the progress of her textiles order . |
| 12 | POLICE and fire service investigators were last night still trying to establish the cause of a farm fire at the weekend . |
| 13 | Later , having chosen marriage over her promising career , she writes , ‘ The basic inhibition still operating to suppress the power of women is the persistent vicious alternative — MARRIAGE OR CAREER — full personal life versus the way of achievement ; ’ ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 14 | Until the moment that the consignee claims the goods after their arrival at destination , the consignor retains the right to change the consignee 's name , provided that if the name is changed the consignor gives the carrier reasonable written notice thereby undertaking to indemnify the carrier for the additional expenses created by the change . |
| 15 | THE British Patent Office spent last week desperately trying to stop the publication of a series of advertisements encouraging people to patent their inventions . |
| 16 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 17 | The float will be in Darlington town centre a week tomorrow helping publicise the borough council 's newly adopted no smoking policy . |
| 18 | Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity . |
| 19 | With the nuclear ship constantly manoeuvring to avoid the dinghies , the crew refused to stop dropping the drums over the side . |
| 20 | He tried again , uncaring that the tramp was motionless by now , the stench of excrement already beginning to permeate the air . |
| 21 | They have named no fewer than four Welsh internationals in their formidable line-up against a county generally struggling to avoid the wooden spoon . |
| 22 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 23 | where I mucked the whole thing up trying to get the |
| 24 | These fees ‘ caps ’ cover the period until the receipt of responses to the Memorandum either offering to purchase the Company or declining to do so . |
| 25 | Whichever the true cause ( and the mystery has never been entirely solved , the German official history still preferring to attribute the success to the sheer ‘ force ’ of the Bavarian attack ) , within four hours on the morning of March 20th the entire position fell , with negligible losses to the attackers . |
| 26 | Providing services of all these kinds — and in this way also helping to supplement the personal tending work usually done gratuitously by relatives responding to the emotional bonds and obligations of kinship — can clearly not be accomplished without the expenditure of resources , human and material ( Abrams 1978 : 67 ) . |
| 27 | Is this country really going to forget the lessons of its recent past , ignore the great sweep of European history and give socialism 's tired and discredited maxims another chance ? |
| 28 | You think you 're going to convince me that selling the club would be in my father 's best interests , with you as the kindly soul just waiting to take the burden off his hands . |
| 29 | My first task tonight having finished the devotions , is to welcome Stella , as our minutes secretary . |
| 30 | It served as a military base for a foreign power still fighting to subdue the remainder of the country . |