Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to stop , she collided heavily with the man ascending the stairs , only his strength and quick reflexes preventing them both from tumbling the rest of the way . |
| 2 | Given the most rapid detection possible , the most effective means of transmitting the call to the fire services and their most prompt attendance , it is reasonable to suppose that in the absence of an effective automatic fire extinguishing system or even the benefit of a conventional one , that the fire will have reached a well advanced stage on their arrival . |
| 3 | And a strong pelvic girdle with links was essential for transmitting the support of the fin/legs to a gradually strengthening spine . |
| 4 | The process of transmitting the signal from the nerve to the muscle can be described quite simply . |
| 5 | Problems with forecasting the course of the epidemic |
| 6 | Such models were applied to the car market by several authors in the 1960s and early 1970s ; this research is intended to determine whether the principle can still be usefully applied in forecasting the size of the market . |
| 7 | This principal character is a " " poure scoler " " ( 3190 ) , a " " clerk " " ( 3199 ) , liable , therefore , to be living by his wits , including , it is hinted ( 3191 – 6 ) , by forecasting the weather on the strength of his astrology . |
| 8 | The visitors deservedly took the lead on 16 minutes when a fine move involving Gary McCartney and Mark Glendinning on the left ended with Jonathan Magee crashing the ball into the net . |
| 9 | When she insists on pursuing the case against the onlookers , her boss first ridicules her , then revealingly loses his temper , telling her she 's finished — win or lose . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation . |
| 11 | However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts . |
| 12 | Algy said to her mother , stupidly pursuing the question of the trolley . |
| 13 | Pursuing the issue of the fieldworker 's social role , it is worth commenting on a very general and apparently reasonable assumption that the closer the fieldworker is matched to subjects in terms of various social attributes , the more successful he or she is likely to be . |
| 14 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 15 | ‘ Our solicitor believes it is a binding contract and we will be pursuing the matter through the courts . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We are actively pursuing the matter with the contractor employed on its behalf to carry out this work . ’ |
| 17 | Since there are seven university departments involved , I find this difficult to understand and will be pursuing the matter with the Scottish Office . ’ |
| 18 | By now , Avon and Somerset police were pursuing the car on the ground . |
| 19 | Without Gooch , the victim of food poisoning the night before the game , much depended on Mike Gatting if England were to escape with a draw following India 's first innings run-riot of 560 for six declared . |
| 20 | For instance , the smooth flowing curve of the soft rail encourages water to follow the line of the rail up around the board , therefore having the effect of sucking the board into the water . |
| 21 | These insects spend years underground as larvae , sucking the sap from the roots of trees . |
| 22 | Which is , perhaps , sad for the writers of television series , or even for those more serious people who think agencies are full of a breed of viciously frivolous vampires bent on sucking the blood of the poor innocent public . |
| 23 | She 's now sucking the end of the pen ! |
| 24 | Angling the powerhead towards the heater will ensure good circulation around it . |
| 25 | Within limits , the deviation of a ray by a given lens depends only on its distance from the lens axis — tilting the lens or angling the ray about the point makes no difference to the angle of deviation of the ray . |
| 26 | Heavy snow in January and February kept other possible buyers away , and by the time the crocuses and daffodils were decking the rest of the Thrush Green gardens , Tullivers was looking at its worst . |
| 27 | It should also be possible to use the computer screen as a kind of operator panel , allowing the user of the system to modify , in real time , the interpolation points . |
| 28 | The gathering , organised by the Union of Officers under Col Sviatcheslav Terekhov ( ret ) , declared Grachev responsible for dismantling the country 's defences , allowing the break-up of the armed forces , and betraying national interests . |
| 29 | Stephen seemed unperturbed , and she felt stupid for allowing the scene at the airport to upset her so much . |
| 30 | 1825 " The Presses of this meeting , as being part owner of the Steam Boat , declines allowing the assessment for the Steam Boat to be charged for this year . |