Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |
| 2 | By 1829 he had succeeded in bringing together most of the country 's cotton-spinners into the Grand General Union of Operative Cotton Spinners , and , although it had disappeared by 1831 , it was an important stage in the heightening of class-consciousness among certain groups of working people . |
| 3 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
| 4 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 5 | Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority . |
| 6 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |
| 7 | After contributing so much to the proceedings in the Finnish capital , and to the 30,000 words of the final act , Romania became one of its victims . |
| 8 | I mean I sometimes when I 'm performing on stage and people are laughing so much in the audience I think god , you know why ca n't I go and sit in the audience and watch this , they 're laughing so much . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course you do , ’ Alyssia replied , feeling slightly better now that she had succeeded in explaining away some of the astrologer 's words . |
| 10 | Yes I do erm Peter , it 's a smashing book erm very smart indeed and erm it 's it 'll be a really nice thing to have , it 'll be very useful this season for checking up some of the two year olds who are now three year olds , coming up in the next few months . |
| 11 | For most people , walking up all of the Munros — Scotland 's 277 peaks over 3000ft — during a lifetime is challenge enough . |
| 12 | Alain said nothing at all and Jenna had to think fast , keeping as much to the truth as possible . |
| 13 | The Mason reached over and snatched the purse , emptying about half of the contents into his own hand . |
| 14 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 15 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 16 | Pierre Chambon ( Institut de Chimie Biologique , Strasbourg ) described an ambitious set of experiments aimed at elucidating their role by knocking out each of the eight isoforms in separate lines of transgenic mice . |
| 17 | Tip : To fold flour in use a large metal spoon in a figure-of-eight motion , as gently as possible , to prevent knocking out any of the air . |
| 18 | Using this " undue burden " criterion , the Court then ruled by seven votes to two ( with Blackmun and Stevens dissenting ) in favour of upholding almost all of the restrictive provisions of the Pennsylvanian law [ see pp. 38714-15 ] , including a 24-hour waiting period which the Court had ruled as unconstitutional in 1983 . |
| 19 | The environmental benefits of natural gas include cutting carbon monoxide emissions by approximately 70% , reducing carbon dioxide by up to 30% and eliminating virtually all of the lead which contributes to air pollution at street level . |
| 20 | He took the stairs up to the hallway two at a time , the carpet absorbing almost all of the sound . |
| 21 | His head was itching too much from the dreadful old grey wig . |
| 22 | She could see waterfalls cascading down some of the mountain-sides and in the distance a lake . |
| 23 | If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design . |
| 24 | A person with a limited vocabulary can usually manage well in familiar surroundings but may experience difficulty , for instance when filling in many of the forms which have become a feature of our modern society such as an insurance form . |
| 25 | ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records . |
| 26 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 27 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 28 | While the middle single coil on the EG-2 is of regular design , the single coils on the EG-1 are designed especially to keep the noise down , and presumably also to emulate Gibson 's P-90 in picking up more of the vibrating string , thanks to some added width . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , it did almost certainly delay the task of writing up some of the results contained in his voluminous notebooks . |
| 30 | Checking of word structure may be achieved by looking up each of the possible character combinations in a list of words . |