Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ she-male ’ character of the Bessy is not merely a woman impersonated by a man , but denotes a combination of both male and female , a total unity encompassing the whole in primitive man 's attempt to understand the universe . |
| 2 | Indeed , the Angolan constitution contains a provision prohibiting the installation of foreign military bases . |
| 3 | Did the runner bringing the news from the battlefield run straight past him when he reached the town ? |
| 4 | Dynamic input of the text involves the user generating the text at run-time using either an electronic bitpad or electronic paper . |
| 5 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
| 6 | He just looked so intolerably sexy , lounging on the white sofa , his body lean and powerful , the open-necked black polo shirt drawing the eye to that muscle-packed chest , his black jeans enhancing his long legs . |
| 7 | So that you could get the slow and of course coating the granules before compression . |
| 8 | Mrs Clwyd — like Mr Livingstone — may well have difficulty gathering the nominations of 55 MPs needed to get her name on the ballot paper . |
| 9 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 10 | But the bit fastening the waistband to the skirt is huge great stitches and very coarse thread , which is actually a bit of a shame . |
| 11 | Difficulty accepting the break-up of the relationship with her boyfriend ( for the past 6 months , worse in the last day ) . |
| 12 | Both Nazi sympathies and anti-Semitism had declined in the past decade , in part reflecting the deaths of Germans old enough to remember Nazi Germany before the war . |
| 13 | I suspect the vehicle has a worn steering relay or other steering component allowing the vehicle to ‘ wander ’ . |
| 14 | It incorporated a common interface component allowing the use of different operating systems and this part had been added by a former employee of the plaintiff who had a similar program and interface . |
| 15 | Slowly and carefully , he withdrew the Steyr-Mannlicher .308 hunting rifle that he 'd bought that same afternoon using the cash from the sale of his car and the Firearm Variation certificate that had been issued to Ian Sampson . |
| 16 | Recently , an absorptive transport mechanism was discovered at the small bowel level suggesting the possibility of a carnitine deficient state in patients with mucosal damage . |
| 17 | A man with his back to her bent over a large table covered with papers , his silver hair catching the light from an overhead lamp . |
| 18 | Whenever you delete highlighted text using the Del for Delete key , it disappears from the text editing window into the scrap . |
| 19 | The response of most analysts to this complex problem is to present their transcriptions of the spoken text using the conventions of the written language . |
| 20 | On Feb. 3 between 3,000 and 10,000 protesters marched 14 km from Madrid to the Torrejón air base demanding the closure of US-Spanish bases as staging posts to the Gulf ; 3,500 marched on the same day to the Rota naval base on the south Atlantic coast . |
| 21 | But wisely Mrs Christie saw that she would have much more difficulty seeing the world through juvenile spectacles than she would through Belgian ones . |
| 22 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 23 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 24 | German newspapers questioned the decision , the Berliner Morgenpost reflecting the views of many by stating in an editorial that ‘ anti-doping measures obviously are ineffective ’ . |
| 25 | Through the net curtain he could see a porter assisting the driver of the car into a wheelchair . |
| 26 | It was erected originally in 1493 , an important building reflecting the wealth of the city . |
| 27 | It was clear , furthermore , she was a housekeeper who took her work very seriously and in spite of her youth , she seemed to have no difficulty gaining the respect of her staff . |
| 28 | FORMER All Black captain DAVID KIRK , who narrowly missed a seat in the New Zealand Parliament representing the constituency of the former Prime Minister , Sir Robert Muldoon , has been offered a job in the office of the New Prime Minister in Wellington . |
| 29 | In short , as nuclear capabilities have developed and conventional forces become more global in their reach , it becomes possible to extend the canopy protecting the forces of progress from the United States and others who would arrest natural and necessary changes . |
| 30 | This is what Barthes means when he speaks of literature representing the sovereignty of language . |