Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On others he apparently modified his position ; most notably , though refusing to discuss explicitly the constitutionality of abortion , he acknowledged the existence of a fundamental right protecting marital privacy , the doctrine originally used by the Supreme Court to legitimize abortion in the landmark 1973 decision Roe v. Wade . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Marcus , flinching inwardly at the contact with Pete , wanting to wipe away the touch of his sweaty hand . |
| 3 | In the present case it is in my judgment clearly established by the evidence , first , that the plaintiff had a belief at all material times that she was going to receive both the cottage and the remainder of the deceased 's property on his death , and secondly , that this belief was encouraged by the deceased . |
| 4 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 5 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 6 | Yeah in today 's press it says that er the government are going to subsidize now the coal industry something like seven hundred millions due to the miners ' kerfuffle , which is going to mean between five and ten pounds subsidy per ton . |
| 7 | I 've got know that I 'm going to do both the maths |
| 8 | We 're , we 're going to conclude now the discussion of the various ways in which , bacteria , in particular er lead to the production of infective disease and really to centre round , centres round the discussion of the pathogenesis , that is the mechanism by which the disease is produced and lunanspach . |
| 9 | But in this chapter I am going to argue just the opposite . |
| 10 | And the erm ni the , the , the capsules and the er Nitrous Albide I expect are the ones he 's going to change though the problem is exactly what to . |
| 11 | Somewhat bruised , the raiding party made their way back to their rendezvous on foot , with David Stirling wondering how he was going to explain away the loss of the truck . |
| 12 | He wins universal applause from his followers and admiration from the reader , despite the fact that he is going to take away the paradise which may still have been ours . |
| 13 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 14 | The enterprise of attempting to specify exhaustively the range of possible surface variants of a variable is thus argued to be irrelevant to a satisfying and explanatory account of syntactic variation . |
| 15 | And Valerie and erm Roger will still be helping to put together the communication stuff . |
| 16 | I was expecting to discover just the radiation that Zeldovich and Starobinsky had predicted from rotating black holes . |
| 17 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 18 | Gina bit into an apricot and nut Danish pastry , acknowledging an untypical craving for sweetness , beginning to relax now the conversation had been established as impersonal . |
| 19 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 20 | The sun had just risen and was beginning to burn away the mist . |
| 21 | Mr Major believes any rebellion can be quelled by extending the debate on Scotland and continuing to drive home the message that devolution leading to independence would harm Scottish interests , reduce Scotland 's influence within the EC , and cause political uncertainty which would draw investment away south of the border and abroad . |
| 22 | The press accused the government of having created the shortage by failing to implement fully the state purchasing plan from herdsmen in the provinces , but herdsmen were also reported to be reluctant to sell to the state in anticipation of higher state purchasing prices . |
| 23 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 24 | Allan Stewart was starting to clear away the mess of jugs and pots with a deliberate clatter . |
| 25 | Meredith lowered her head to hide the fact that she was having to swallow away the dryness in her throat . |
| 26 | As with all computer technology the price of the necessary hardware and software has been falling dramatically and more and more manufacturers are starting to take seriously the idea of producing pen based computers for the mass market . |
| 27 | Clinton , then a student in the United Kingdom , reneged on this arrangement , it was alleged , by returning to the UK and then by attending Yale University , thereby failing to enter either the ROTP or the University of Arkansas . |
| 28 | Lord Hill called his bluff by threatening to make public the reason why the programme could not be shown . |
| 29 | Instead of which she found herself having to blink away the sting of tears that blurred her vision . |
| 30 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |