Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] [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 A SATELLITE channel transmitting the proceedings of the British Parliament and overseas legislatures has been suggested by the Astra satellite company , Marketing Week reports .
5 The process of transmitting the signal from the nerve to the muscle can be described quite simply .
6 Problems with forecasting the course of the epidemic
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Algy said to her mother , stupidly pursuing the question of the trolley .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Our solicitor believes it is a binding contract and we will be pursuing the matter through the courts . ’
18 ‘ We are actively pursuing the matter with the contractor employed on its behalf to carry out this work . ’
19 Since there are seven university departments involved , I find this difficult to understand and will be pursuing the matter with the Scottish Office . ’
20 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 .
21 By now , Avon and Somerset police were pursuing the car on the ground .
22 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 .
23 Ulrich proposed that acid industrial emissions , principally the old enemy sulphur , were poisoning the forests through the release of aluminium in the soil .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 These insects spend years underground as larvae , sucking the sap from the roots of trees .
27 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 .
28 She 's now sucking the end of the pen !
29 Angling the powerhead towards the heater will ensure good circulation around it .
30 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 .
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