Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] 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 | The couple gave just a hint of the trauma they faced in an open letter thanking the press for allowing them to put together the pieces of their relationship in private . |
| 3 | Trickle filter bacteria are well supplied with vital oxygen , allowing them to break down the fish' wastes efficiently . |
| 4 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 5 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 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 | You 'll be wanting me to scrape out the gutters next . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the same time the fleet 's normal exit from Portsmouth harbour would have been blocked , forcing it to use instead the more dangerous , shoal-encumbered , Needles passage : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Consideration should be given to the background of prospective clients and their motives for requiring us to carry out the work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | I am asking you to take up the privilege . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not asking you to write up the interview . |
| 19 | Now he says he wrote to S & N chairman , Alec Rankin , asking him to explain fully the reasons for switching away from diesel . |
| 20 | I then took Maxine 's mind off what had happened by asking her to describe again the scenery in the area of the canal and the painted barges and sturdy horses which had so fascinated the young boy . |
| 21 | A total of 270 visitors ( 74% of all respondents ) replied to a question inviting them to say why the exhibitions appealed to them . |
| 22 | THE way things are going , any Rugby Union player who has kept himself fit during the summer , can expect a sudden telephone call inviting him to join either the Lions or England on tour . |
| 23 | A light snow was falling and he raised his face to allow the soft flakes to fall on his skin , willing it to wash away the disgust he felt inside . |
| 24 | He opened the door , allowing it to reach only the length of the chain . |
| 25 | Use a comb or brush , whichever you feel most comfortable with and invest in a ‘ tail comb ’ , using it to plump up the roots after backcombing . |
| 26 | Dr Schore says the most impressive statements he has read , inspiring him to investigate further the LM potencies , are the following , by Dr. Pierre Schmidt ‘ … but we must bear in mind that Hahnemann never says anything which has not been duly considered and thought out , and that all his words should be weighed with the utmost care . ’ |
| 27 | Off he went to Great Scotland Yard , in that frightful double-breasted suit , silly flat cap and flashy green tie , carrying all the worries of the Empire on his shoulders , leaving me to pick up the pieces . |
| 28 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 29 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 30 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |