Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SATELLITE channel transmitting the proceedings of the British Parliament and overseas legislatures has been suggested by the Astra satellite company , Marketing Week reports . |
| 2 | He believed in that case the main danger would come from Wollo soldiery pursuing the Shoans into the town , and passing close to the Legation . |
| 3 | With some force he told von Knobelsdorf , the Crown Prince 's Chief-of-Staff , that it would be pointless pursuing the attacks on the Mort Homme until Côte 304 was finally conquered . |
| 4 | Ulrich proposed that acid industrial emissions , principally the old enemy sulphur , were poisoning the forests through the release of aluminium in the soil . |
| 5 | Pronouncing Congress to be ‘ a microscopic minority ’ , he began to give thought to ways of preventing this minority from poisoning the minds of the majority , especially those of the vast array of native collaborators — the patwaris and the chowkidars , the stationmasters and the clerks — on which British rule so visibly depended ; and before long attendance by government employees at meetings of Congress or any other political organization was made illegal . |
| 6 | In about 1516 he moved to Cambridge , where Erasmus had recently introduced the study of Greek and had asserted the supremacy of the Scriptures , ridiculing the theories of the schoolmen and their fantastic systems of interpretation . |
| 7 | A delay timer , variable between zero and 180 seconds , holds the elevator at the end of the slew , allowing the corners of the store to be filled evenly . |
| 8 | The recorded tone is warm , and nonetheless very open , allowing the strands of the textures to be heard with ease — the bass , for example , is marvellously clear . |
| 9 | The Communists claimed that the ILP Member , John McGovern , had weakened the demonstration by trying to present its demands to Parliament himself , rather than allowing the leaders of the NUWM to do so . |
| 10 | The local council in Aldershot ruled that soldiers serving in the Gulf would not have to pay poll tax ; but Whitehall refused to follow America 's example of allowing the troops in the Gulf not to pay income tax . |
| 11 | Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge . |
| 12 | In this study , the usage rates for the lobon-gur solution were found to be poor , ( corroborating the findings of the programme monitors mentioned above ) ; less than 10% of all cases of diarrhoea had been treated with oral rehydration therapy . |
| 13 | If , therefore , the visitor has made an error in construing the statutes of the university , his decision can be quashed on judicial review . |
| 14 | The court investigated the technology in some detail , but stressed that it was not evaluating the experts ' decision , just construing the words of the agreement . |
| 15 | This , in the government 's view , was the only practicable way of rectifying the injustices of the dual market for land . |
| 16 | Over the last fifteen years , preaching has moved , by and large , from preaching the truths of the Christian faith to the experiences of the Christian faith . |
| 17 | Through their power of patronage , the King and the Lords were able to exert " influence " over the composition of the lower chamber so oiling the relations between the King and the representatives of the people and cementing the elements of the constitution into some kind of working whole . |
| 18 | Robbie asked , her gesture encompassing the exchanges of the last few moments . |
| 19 | Furious rapids enclosed by narrow gorges guide the Tay through Grandtully , speeding the waters towards the flood plains at Ballinluig , where the Tummel joins the race . |
| 20 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 21 | He was no theologian , neither a traditionalist maintaining the views of the Fathers nor a scholastic systematizing a body of doctrine . |
| 22 | None the less , he did succeed in maintaining the rights of the convent and on his death in 1331 he left the priory a considerable estate of books , vestments , plate , and horses . |
| 23 | last week and er what I want to get out of course is obviously increased confidence and skill at sort of maintaining the aims of the meeting or the presentation |
| 24 | He must be sagacious and have good judgement , be patient and yet at the same time firm in maintaining the interests of the ruler he represented . |
| 25 | Whilst strictly maintaining the privileges of the House of Commons , the Attorney-General used the Parliamentary materials in this case as an illustration of the dangers of so doing . |
| 26 | Moreover , in order to assist us , whilst still maintaining the privileges of the House of Commons , he made submissions as to the effect of such material on the construction of section 63 if , contrary to his contentions and advice , we decided this appeal with the assistance of such material . |
| 27 | In perpetuating a financial structure which offers tremendous advantages to large firms , it is as important to consider the role of the state in maintaining the idiosyncrasies of the financial system as it is to debate the extent of state control over commercial banks . |
| 28 | The campaign was at best only partially successful in recovering the fortunes of the BUF in 1938 — 9 . |
| 29 | France is a country which led the therapeutic enterprise of building the asylums in the nineteeth century . |
| 30 | In Britain , on average 60,000 men were employed annually in building the railways between the 1830s and the 1870s . |