Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | take better policy decisions by assisting them to work out the implications of their basic strategy in terms of policies in specific areas , to establish the relative priorities to be given to the different sectors of their programme as a whole , to identify those areas of policy in which new choices can be exercised and to ensure that the underlying implications of alternative courses of action are fully analysed and considered . |
| 2 | Trickle filter bacteria are well supplied with vital oxygen , allowing them to break down the fish' wastes efficiently . |
| 3 | It gives local authorities an additional one hundred million pounds to spend when the low level of inflation is helping them keep down the cost of providing their services . |
| 4 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 5 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 6 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 7 | Not allowing himself to glance down the passage in the direction of Madeleine 's bedroom , Harry descended the big staircase and went out of the house . |
| 8 | You 'll be wanting me to scrape out the gutters next . ’ |
| 9 | In the Nineties we are rediscovering a way of living and dressing which picks up the threads of that decade and updates it . ’ |
| 10 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 11 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 12 | Some time after , he heard from Dr J.B. Danquah , a lawyer and a mainline member of the intelligentsia , urging him to take on the job . |
| 13 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 14 | ‘ Cool green house ’ conditions out of doors could change our gardens dramatically , causing us to weed out the progeny of today 's tender treasures and cossetting plants that like cool , moist conditions . |
| 15 | Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate . |
| 16 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 17 | Observers of the seven-month trial are left wondering who edited out the intrigue . |
| 18 | And er Hannah 's going we started off the conversation where was the perviest you 've ever had one I mean , knowing that I did n't have one , ever had one before and that was Mark , feeble attempt that lasted about ten minutes |
| 19 | While wrinkles may be beginning to appear on Sun 's ONC — and the market waits on a fully-configured commercial DCE package — NobleNet is positioning itself to mop up the interim business , targeting developers with mixed proprietary and open architectures and non-communicating RPC 's . |
| 20 | On the other hand , an employer who dismisses a redundant employee for going on strike during his notice period will still have to make him a redundancy payment unless he serves a ‘ notice of extension ’ in accordance with the Consolidation Act requiring him to make up the time lost through the strike . |
| 21 | It caught on the second try , and after a minute 's revving he switched off the ignition and let it die . |
| 22 | Consideration should be given to the background of prospective clients and their motives for requiring us to carry out the work . |
| 23 | She opened her eyes again , not remembering closing them to shut out the blueness , but it was still there and her mind was spiked with pain . |
| 24 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 25 | Seamus Mallon accused the terrorists of doing their talking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 26 | I am asking you to take up the privilege . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not asking you to write up the interview . |
| 28 | At the risk of having you bellow down the phone to me that it 's none of my business , I think you made a big mistake . |
| 29 | And she said she said I am not having you putting down the value of my house and having yours higher than mine the value of my house . |
| 30 | They settled on the terrace , Fei Yen busying herself laying out the table while Wu Tsai sat and made pleasant conversation with Tsu Ma . |