Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 2 | By superimposing on these techniques an ideology and a practice of self-expression , Cream 's music seems to establish a dialectical relationship between the two , articulating each via the other into a new position — a position , perhaps , of ‘ fraternal individualism ’ |
| 3 | Martin leaned forward , his face touching that of the angel 's , as he raised his arm to strike . |
| 4 | I 'm sure I could find him now , but I have made a vow that I am not going to tell anyone where he is , for the man is innocent and has no hope of proving that at the moment . |
| 5 | Yet as we noted in our tenth report : ‘ The price that some children may pay for demanding little of the teacher may be that they are given work which demands little of them ’ ( Alexander et al . |
| 6 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 7 | The simplest method is to switch off the lights and to lighten the shadow areas by reflecting some of the daylight back onto the subject . |
| 8 | Similarly the Shell enterprisal spawns glossy scriptures about community environmental projects that it will fund , while manufacturing some of the Planet 's most treacherous chemicals . |
| 9 | When it was first shown to the Buckinghamshire firm 's workforce it certainly created the right impression ; an achievment in a factory used to seeing some of the world 's most desireable cars . |
| 10 | The second part of study will focus on the problem areas identified in a number of firms through the initial survey ; the researchers will work with these firms to give small amounts of assistance aimed at easing some of the marketing bottlenecks . |
| 11 | The real benefit of reading Baudelaire himself on the art of his contemporaries is the chance of recovering some of the excitement the poet felt . |
| 12 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 13 | As I was typing this on the computer ( my VDU is a television set ) , the screen went odd with flashing lines and all the words missing . |
| 14 | Streaming is appearing again and the government seem to be encouraging this with the creation of City Technology Colleges . |
| 15 | But rather than simply using this for the purpose of political comment in a static model of the communication process , the rationale behind its retention here is that there are real and important differences between these two groups and their relationships , and work , with the media . |
| 16 | I think the idea of using this in the foreground er , as I was saying , with landscapes , and the same thing applies to seascapes as well , it 's nice to have a bit of detail lower down , but I do n't think that the the background , the sort of , main part of the photograph is terribly strong . |
| 17 | Where , the environment trust , since our initial meeting have spoken er , both with Essex County Council and community groups in the area and have made substantial progress erm on the idea of er , using some of the land to the rear of er , the existing Franklyns block er , so they do want to come back with some wider proposals for a larger scheme which will be much the same as regards the Franklyns block but will include nine er , additional homes erm , and they will be two three bed houses and seven er , two bedroom houses . |
| 18 | Then arrange the raw scallops , quartered , on a bed of lettuce and make the walnut vinaigrette using some of the lemon juice and a mixture of walnut oil and a non-scented oil such as a groundnut . |
| 19 | In the library she saw an exhibition dedicated to the war poets and plans for the library extension ; she met students and researchers using some of the library 's on-line and interactive computer systems . |
| 20 | Mr. Allen : Will the Hon. Gentleman consider using some of the time of those operators for the installation of a fax machine which could be used collectively by right Hon. and Hon. Members rather than duplicating many times a facility that could be provided and serviced by one additional member of staff , or even by current members of stall ? |
| 21 | Although viruses , plasmids , and transposons are relatively simple , they are probably not primitive , because they can replicate only inside living cells , using some of the machinery of those cells . |
| 22 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 23 | Two films , Hell 's Angels on Wheels and Rebel Rouser were supposed to follow in the wake of The Wild Angels , even to the point of including some of the cast of that film , like Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd . |
| 24 | They followed her out of the factory and round to the back of the minibus where Sybil and the driver were already helping some of the group to alight . |
| 25 | By now I was eating some of the bread from Reggane . |
| 26 | We sat in our little flat recovering from a good dip in the briny channel and slowly eating some of the delicacy . |
| 27 | They argued that enterprises would not reduce their prices but simply would accumulate stocks of finished goods , financing this by the issue of bills of exchange . |
| 28 | The most scenic and demanding half of the walk is to the north of the pass , through the southern section is no pushover . |
| 29 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 30 | Moderator could the convenor tell us why the Board wishes to be discharged its remit on health and healing when it 's been so successful in bringing this to the notice of the whole church ? |