Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is America 's misfortune that it has encouraged standardized mass catering to swamp the country , coast to coast , with the Admass steak and chicken and seafood . |
| 2 | An off-duty cop spotted him slumped in the driver 's seat fumbling to find the ignition button to start the trip to Penzance . |
| 3 | This was the last opportunity the Legal Services Committee had to make oral submissions to the Advisory Committee before the latter produced its advice on both the Law Society 's application for extended rights of audience for solicitors and the CPS/GLS submission seeking to remove the restrictions under para 402(1) ( c ) in the Bar 's Code of Conduct on rights of audience for employed lawyers . |
| 4 | For example , in Figure 9.6 there is no force acting to push the parcel to the east : the only forces are gravity , which keeps the parcel on the grid , and the force which propels the parcel polewards . |
| 5 | The Council and the environmental health officer applied for judicial review seeking to quash the justices ' order . |
| 6 | The money involved , the ruthlessness , and the organisation , were all far too great to be explained by the political opposition to the President wanting to discredit the Government prior to the coming election . |
| 7 | At St Martin 's she had imagined him crossing that limit but his mind refusing to accept the memory of it . |
| 8 | When therefore the amount produced ( in a unit of time ) is such that the demand price is greater than the supply price , then sellers receive more than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market to that amount ; and there is at work an active force tending to increase the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 9 | The articles are on public record and the purchaser runs the risk of a disgruntled shareholder seeking to have the sale set aside if its consent was not obtained . |
| 10 | In a study attempting to utilise the theory , Cressey ( 1953 ) concluded that they probably could not be . |
| 11 | Though the city 's finances were supposed to be independent , Polish control of the railways meant that any citizen wishing to use the trains had to change Danzig currency into Polish currency before buying a ticket . |
| 12 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 13 | Team Components Bureau and Streamline Hazlehead meet in the other semi-final , neither side having won the trophy . |
| 14 | Step 6 CAPTION- Having completed the edit use the Save As option to name the file ( which automatically has a . |
| 15 | A major row developed , with the DUC threatening to boycott the seminar if no and-mining speaker was included on the panel . |
| 16 | And then that would happen and very often I 've seen the the the the shaft horse having kicked the thresher in his leg , had the two fighting . |
| 17 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 18 | The track remains in position but rusty with disuse , the car having put the train almost completely out of business in the Pyrenees . |
| 19 | By ‘ contract ’ , I mean an educational contract , in which the institution is in effect undertaking to provide the student with the kind of programme that he or she wants , in return for the student 's active participation . |
| 20 | The Irish selectors were out in force preparing to pick the Northern Ireland bowls team for the Commonwealth Games in Canada next year and no doubt the young Portrush man could feature in their plans . |
| 21 | Especially after all the hype about 15pt gap you 'd have thought that they 'd have been looking at the ‘ nearest rival trying to close the gap ! ! ’ . |
| 22 | Acts such as trying to start the engine , or a person who is sitting in the driving seat trying to put the vehicle in gear or ‘ revving up ’ the engine ( even though the clutch had burnt out ) ( R v Farrance [ 1978 ] Crim LR 496 ) are examples of ‘ attempting to drive ’ , provided there is an immediate intention of driving . |
| 23 | She looked down , smiling , then nudged her horse forward , following him , watching as he began to climb the steep path that cut into the overhang above , his horse straining to make the gradient . |
| 24 | With a huge key trying to open the door . |
| 25 | ″ ) widebody design rackets made of 100% high modulus graphite and featuring Slazenger 's Optimum Mass System , which adds weight to the head at the five , seven and twelve o'clock positions , increases torsional rigidity and works with the fan stringing to expand the power zone . |
| 26 | One story is an outsider 's , told in the manner of a natural scientist seeking to explain the workings of nature and treating the human realm as part of nature . |
| 27 | They concluded that two kinds of response serving to control the meaning of the event by neutralising its economic threat were helpful . |
| 28 | They have already complained to the waiter without satisfaction , so they have descended on the reception desk demanding to see the manager . |
| 29 | As part of the campaign bidding to reverse the decision and stop up to 140 truckloads a day using roads to Teesside , a 7,033-name petition urging Government action will be presented to the Commons today by Richmond MP William Hague . |
| 30 | Breasting the summit with ease and bang on time , the train was ‘ chased ’ by a host of car bound photographers and enthusiasts , with even the pre-occupied massive throng in the on-train real ale bar pausing to admire the feat ! |