Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two appeared in more than one newspaper — each appearing in both the Sun and the Star . |
| 2 | Ever since his time as a medical student , he had been drawn towards women who were higher up the career ladder , revelling in both the challenge and the reflected glory when he succeeded . |
| 3 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 4 | This in turn has led to increasing Government interference in matters relating to both the organisation and professional functions of medical groups . |
| 5 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 6 | Four of the leading jurists of Bologna were appointed to prepare a document defining for ever the relationship between the empire on one hand and the cities of Italy and imperial vassal on the other . |
| 7 | If it 's sultry shades you 're looking for then the Preludes collection from Helena Rubenstein is one to try . |
| 8 | This chapter outlines the way in which the schooling systems were shaped from the early nineteenth century by a combination of church and state politics , developing in both the North and South as expressions of catholic nationalism and protestant loyalism . |
| 9 | She stared calmly back , her jet black hair escaping from underneath the wimple . |
| 10 | 1 The questioning of the place and function of writing in both the primary and secondary curricula needs to continue . |
| 11 | According to either the libertarian or social responsibility theories of the media , the means of mass communication should not be controlled by the state . |
| 12 | The result , both in some sectors where there are producers who are purely home-based and others who are foreign-based , and in whole states , is a political tug-of-war to define the ‘ cow ’ according to either the stay-at-home or to the go-abroad interests . |
| 13 | According to both the coal industry and the National Wildlife Federation , the government will as a result be forced to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars if it is to prevent strip-mining on protected lands . |
| 14 | The appellants , in seeking to further the aims of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , entered and sought to immobilise an airfield . |
| 15 | The Association has continued to be active since 1946 , monitoring the progress of new towns and seeking to further the principles and practice of good planning . |
| 16 | Thirdly , because the overall intake has been increased and the average blood ionic fluoride level of the population raised , individuals who ingest submilligram doses of fluoride will run a greater risk of their blood ionic fluoride concentrations peaking to above the threshold level that can cause dental fluorosis or other ill-effects . |
| 17 | It is misguided in believing that a solution to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power can ever be found by looking to either the market or the ordering of power within the company . |
| 18 | The possession of large machines by those responsible for managing rivers can sometimes lead to a situation where the tail wags the dog , and the results can be damaging to both the environment and the economy . |
| 19 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 20 | Er the market we 're looking at there the Pan-Pacific basin there especially showing a market at the moment . |
| 21 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that if we are to have an effective Royal Air Force , it is essential that our pilots are given the best possible training , including training in operating at below the level of enemy radar ? |
| 22 | Here only three sub-activities are shown : commencing with the concepts phase , leading into both the analysis and scheming phases , and then passing through to the manufacturing phase . |
| 23 | On Sept. 14 , the Middle East News Agency reported that the Arab League Council , meeting in Cairo , had passed a resolution condemning Iran 's " aggression " , and deciding to forward the case to the UN . |
| 24 | About one in five of all trips are made for business purposes and the business travel industry is growing at twice the speed of tourism . |
| 25 | Europe , which accounts for one-third of IBM 's revenue , is growing at twice the rate of the US market , but Asia continues to be the fastest-growing region . |
| 26 | Let us suppose that NBFIs maintain a stable proportion of bank deposits to total assets and that their assets are growing at twice the rate of nominal income . |
| 27 | It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income . |
| 28 | Throughswing By now the ball is flying down the fairway must as you imagined it would . |
| 29 | But remedies involving , for example , an extra tax payable by each person in a household would at the moment be madness : many councils would be left struggling with exactly the enforcement difficulties that have made the poll tax so hard to set up and administer . |
| 30 | Very few , if any , anticipated in 1976 that the period 1976–88 would lead to a radical rethinking about both the content and the control of the school curriculum and of the relationship between central government and the local education authorities . |