Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first-generation immigrant , however zealously he or she tried to learn the techniques of the new life , lived in a self-imposed ghetto , drawing support from the old ways , the men of his kind , the memories of the old country which he had so readily abandoned . |
| 2 | It was paid for by the county using money from the national Transport Road Research Laboratory . |
| 3 | FIG. 1 a , Stereo drawing using MOLSCRIPT of the crystallographic asymmetric unit which consists of a planar pentamer complex of five CypA molecules bound to five CsA molecules . |
| 4 | Victoria continued to wear handed-down Liberty dresses from Aunt Rose 's daughters , and wasting money by the excessive use of electric light , hot water or heating appliances was a vice which Pamela rigorously discouraged in children and servants . |
| 5 | A very rudimentary knowledge of detective fiction tells you that any photographic blackmailer worth his salt keeps producing copies of the incriminating material until he 's blue in the face . |
| 6 | However , following the success of The Addams Family , you might have to get used to seeing repeats on the big screen as well . |
| 7 | This offer failed to impress GFT and , having taken some informal advice from their company solicitors on winding-up procedures , instructed the local firm of Sam Sword and Spade , debt collectors , to serve a formal notice demanding payment of the outstanding £1250 ( see below ) . |
| 8 | The Enterprise Centre first began contacting employers about the Academic Link scheme in September 1992 . |
| 9 | The carer may be under too much stress , both physically and mentally , to cope with paperwork relating to such matters as the patient 's sick pay from work , relevant insurance claims , or simply organizing payment of the normal household bills . |
| 10 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 11 | THE EXODUS from East Europe continued unabated yesterday , with thousands leaving and many would-be emigres defying attempts by the Communist authorities to prevent their crossing into Czechoslovakia , from where most refugees are fleeing to the West . |
| 12 | ‘ We are bringing Danu into the twentieth century . ’ |
| 13 | Demographic pressures were signally important in producing change in the educational system . |
| 14 | Far from co-operating , however , the Metropolitan sought to ‘ mislead , confuse and divert ’ investigators by , for instance , labelling objects from the Lydian hoard ‘ East Greek Treasures ’ . |
| 15 | However , Potten et al have recently reported that in vivo bromodeoxyuridine labelling indices for the rectal mucosa were lower than those for the rest of the colon , which were fairly homogeneous . |
| 16 | Potten et al have recently described a software package which generates frequency plots of labelling indices against the exact cell position within the crypt . |
| 17 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc figures it will be seeing $30m over the next eight years from selling its Symmetry 2000/750 and 450 machines to the US Department of Veteran Affairs as part of a multi-vendor team led by systems integrator Federal Data Corporation . |
| 18 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 19 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 20 | I think I played my part in helping Middlesbrough into the Premier League . ’ |
| 21 | The government was also pursuing plans for the increased privatization of state-owned enterprises . |
| 22 | Gibson , deputy chairman of the Hardy Society , is now gathering opinions from the old boy 's contemporaries , many of which have never been published before . |
| 23 | In 1981 he moved to programmes and planning , helping to coordinate Harwell 's programmes , while still maintaining contacts with the European Commission and DTI officials , and was appointed head of research planning and information services in 1983 . |
| 24 | Formerly a teacher in the junior school of Donaldsons 's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh and a tutor to the support service for students in Further Education , her principal tasks were organising the BDA 's own education programme making and maintaining contacts with the various educational establishments for deaf students and acting as spokesperson on all educational matters . |
| 25 | US President George Bush on Jan. 11 welcomed the move as " a very sound step " , and cited the announcement as a justification for his policy of maintaining contacts with the Chinese government [ see p. 37122 for visits to China by senior US officials in July and December 1989 ] . |
| 26 | We checked the assumption of proportionality by using graphs of the log-log survivor function . |
| 27 | When they return with the honey , they too will perform a dance so that , in a very short time , most of the worker force in the hive is actively gathering honey from the new source . |
| 28 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 29 | In Europe , for example , the removal of temperate forest began more than 5 kyr BP when permanent agricultural systems replaced the hunting and gathering strategies of the mesolithic period ( sections 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 ) ; and has continued ever since , though post-war afforestation policies have redressed the balance to some extent ( section 8.2 ) . |
| 30 | And his toe-nails were long and curved , like the horns of a goat , reminding Melanie of the cloven hooves she thought he might have had . |