Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 2 | The variation in the popularity of fixed interest financing between the sixties and the seventies may be explained by changes in the tax environment and the levels of inflation experienced during the 1970s : |
| 3 | In any given week on the average stand of a local newspaper shop there is a choice of dozens of magazines directly aimed at women readers from Cosmopolitan , catering for the fashionable and liberated career woman to Women 5 Weekly for the perhaps more satisfied housewife . |
| 4 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
| 5 | But the real drama was building between the British and the French again . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , rapid economic development , which led to real income per head tripling during the 1960s and quintupling again during the 1970s , strengthened private economic interests . |
| 7 | Some manufacturers recommend a light sanding between the second and third coats and it is important , as with all types of products mentioned , that the instructions are read carefully before use . |
| 8 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 9 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 10 | Difficult not to take the weather personally and on this day , when it is so important that the sun shines , I think of Camus 's return to Tipasa , ‘ walking through the lonely and rain-soaked countryside ’ , trying to find that strength ‘ which helps me to accept what exists once I have recognized that I can not change it ’ . |
| 11 | Dusting off the black and white label Lagerfeld made the double ‘ C ’ button the gilt security symbol of the Eighties over-achievers . |
| 12 | But the 7,500 punters at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre were not fooled — there was scattered booing after the ninth and 10th rounds over Eubank 's inability to deck this human punchbag . |
| 13 | All this can be done without interfering with the operational or planning processes currently under way in the organization . |
| 14 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 15 | Hence is positive semi-definite and restrictions on its components can be written down — giving an upper bound on each modulus appearing in the normal or " canonical " form as a coefficient . |
| 16 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 17 | My subsequent business activities were to involve my old colleague Barry Kirby in , commencing January 1981 and ending in the mid-eighties when the premises came in for redevelopment . |
| 18 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 19 | Glasses clash and cutlery clatters in the all-night cantinas where drunken revellers confuse the robot waiters and flee along the colonnades , their bills unpaid , their breath steaming in the thin and wintry air . |
| 20 | Works from the series , mostly done in the 1970s , are at Knoedler this month , opening on the 13th and running until 11 March . |
| 21 | In each set there were 16 trigrams appearing on the left and 16 trigrams appearing on the right . |
| 22 | In each set there were 16 words appearing on the left and 16 words appearing on the right . |
| 23 | Too many people know what is happening to the Polish and the Slavs and to the Jews and the dissenters . |
| 24 | It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification . |
| 25 | There is also little doubt that the lack of opportunity to exercise in a cage is a major factor contributing to the weak and brittle bones of the typical battery hen . |
| 26 | Scotch malt whisky and Scotch grain whisky must , by law , mature for a minimum of three years — in practice , most mature for much longer — five years , ten , fifteen , sometimes more … a lingering period during which Scotland 's cool , clear air steals through the porous oak of the casks and charms their contents , contributing to the smooth and golden character of each distillery 's unique creation . |
| 27 | Until the appearance in the late eighteenth century of catalogues and pattern books on the types of coffin , linings and coffin furniture provided for the lower-class funeral , the details relating to the upper and middle classes of society have to be gleaned from undertakers ' trade cards , eyewitness accounts of funerals and through specific instructions imparted via wills . |
| 28 | Since its foundation it has held nine biennial congresses and one special general meeting in various parts of the United Kingdom , at which papers on various subjects relating to the deaf and dumb have been read and discussed , and resolutions passed . |
| 29 | Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person ( other than the authority ) . |
| 30 | May also stated that he could not hear any detailed evidence relating to the Four until any criminal proceedings against police officers had been completed . |