Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 2 | Highways are being split down the middle , with special ‘ car pool lanes ’ for vehicles carrying more than two passengers , allowing them to cruise past the traffic jams . |
| 3 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 4 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 5 | Is not the most practical step that he could take to help renewables to allow those people working on tide , wind , coppicing and other renewables in the Atomic Energy Authority a separate organisation free from the foolish need to produce short-term profits , allowing them to invest in the advantages of renewables , which are essentially long-term ? |
| 6 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 7 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 8 | More important , trade would tie their economies into the global market , allowing them to specialise in the things they do best , and helping governments to consolidate their economic reforms . |
| 9 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 10 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 11 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 12 | They all have structural similarities to the nucleotide building blocks of DNA ( or RNA ) , allowing them to interfere with the replication of viral genetic material . |
| 13 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 14 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 15 | I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter . |
| 16 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 17 | They felt this was important in helping them to get through the difficulties associated with unemployment . |
| 18 | This can be accomplished by wisely releasing the creative potential of individual employees and empowering them to contribute to the goals of the corporation . |
| 19 | These included giving families reproductive choice in future pregnancies , enabling them to plan for the future with a disabled child , avoiding the experience of a delayed diagnosis , and identifying a presymptomatic cohort who might benefit from future treatments . |
| 20 | If you have a Pascal compiler you may wish to re-use , amend or string together various of the procedures within PITEST.PAS to produce your own routines e.g. you may wish to use the three options : create DC , update DC , and submit DC , to produce a routine enabling you to go through the whole create and submit procedure for DCs . |
| 21 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 22 | The MPs , leaders of Britain 's cross-party peace group New Consensus , wrote to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams challenging him to appeal to the IRA to halt its campaign of violence . |
| 23 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 24 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
| 25 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 26 | Each Mechonoid was moulded in fibre-glass on a circular base and , like the Dalek , fitted with castors enabling it to roll along the floor . |
| 27 | Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed . |
| 28 | We praise you , O God , that the light of Christ shines amidst the darkness of our world and that the darkness has not overcome it ; and we pray that his light may shine more and more into our own lives , illuminating our minds with the knowledge of the truth and enabling us to walk in the way of holiness and love ; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord , |
| 29 | In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom . |
| 30 | ELEMENTAL spirits found on the Isle of Man , they have a malicious habit of magnetising stones which mark the road 's edges ; these then exert a strong pull on passing motor cars , causing them to swerve off the road despite the driver 's efforts . |