Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such as global warming — and the West using less of the oil that the Gulf crisis is actually all about . |
| 2 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 3 | Then arrange the raw scallops , quartered , on a bed of lettuce and make the walnut vinaigrette using some of the lemon juice and a mixture of walnut oil and a non-scented oil such as a groundnut . |
| 4 | Continue every 25 cm around the edge of the ring using each of the different fabrics in turn ( illustration 4 ) . |
| 5 | It now appears the lawyer representing some of the drug cartel 's ‘ extraditables ’ once headed the Justice Department 's extradition division . |
| 6 | In view of the legal uncertainty surrounding many of the terms which are likely to be included , that may be a dangerous course ; it may also damage the business 's commercial standing . |
| 7 | Bingham does not question this opinion but indicates that more explanation about the uncertainty surrounding some of the loans would have been helpful . |
| 8 | The swimming was n't very good ; the whole place stank of sardines , and the noble castle turned out to be a youth hostel ; also there was a forty-mile-an-hour gale blowing much of the time . |
| 9 | The ‘ named person ’ then becomes a subcontractor with the main contractor taking most of the responsibility , but with the client bearing some responsibility , for example , if the subcontractor defaults . |
| 10 | With a speed smacking more of the arsonist than the Girl Guide , Anya 's got a fire going . |
| 11 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 12 | ‘ The French Album ’ ( ) features an intelligently planned programme featuring some of the most delectable miniatures ever penned . |
| 13 | Although no details of the agreement have been released , Acquavella told The Art Newspaper that it was an exclusive , world-wide deal covering all of the artist 's oil paintings . |
| 14 | The plates realigned and subduction resumed , sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras . |
| 15 | With jetlag causing most of the tourists to complain of two sleepless nights since landing on the sub-continent , Gooch 's manager and mentor Keith Fletcher was quick to offer an excuse . |
| 16 | The public housing sector is well on the way to becoming an unambiguously residual , second class form of housing provision serving some of the poorest sections of the population . |
| 17 | Bring a breath of country air into your home using some of the traditional pot pourri , herb and spice preparations from Gail Duff 's fascinating book . |
| 18 | Small group work is ideal for investigative work using any of the four paradigms of software seen above . |
| 19 | However , that did not invalidate the expert 's decision , and there was nothing wrong in the expert meeting both of the parties to discuss his certificate . |
| 20 | It is pure irony that after a climb involving some of the most sustained smooth rock that I 'd ever encountered , the finish involved a traverse of wire cable attached to a telepherique station , a swing down and across metal laddering and a hand-traverse of the spars which guide the telepherique into its housing . |
| 21 | ‘ Do not leave this hall thinking that with the fall of the Berlin Wall the work of Amnesty has lightened ’ , he told the young delegates . |
| 22 | Once stretched the linen was sized to stop the canvas absorbing any of the ground . |
| 23 | England was already an old country by late Saxon times , and the new evidence suggests a relatively large population utilising much of the landscape to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 24 | Many portraits of infant boys appear to have a hairstyle resembling that of the emperor Trajan ( AD 98–117 ) . |
| 25 | This is the HS.125 which to all intents and purposes is a mini-airliner exhibiting much of the technology required for a 1960s jetliner . |
| 26 | During the 1980s , the group providing most of the applications for judicial review were immigrants . |
| 27 | The Design Change ( DC ) has successfully been submitted for assessment by all interested users ; ie. all users who have a package containing any of the modules listed on the DC , managers of all modules listed on the DC and the DC submitter . |
| 28 | An ‘ interested ’ user is the creator of the DC or one who is the manager of a package containing any of the modules referenced by the DC . |
| 29 | As the Soviet authorities were still trying to restore order in the Transcaucasian republic of Azerbaijan following the violence there in January [ see below ; pp. 37168-70 ] , nationalist rioting erupted on Feb. 11 in Dushanbe , the capital of the Central Asian republic of Tadjikistan , which had hitherto been largely untouched by the nationalist or inter-ethnic unrest afflicting much of the southern Soviet Union . |
| 30 | At present , other matters are proceeding , but I can tell the hon. Gentleman — I am grateful to him for seeking clarification — that in respect of a further order for type 23s , I expect that to be at a broadly similar interval comparing this with the previous order that was placed . |