Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 2 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 4 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 5 | MUCH has been said in the Steam Railway press about the financial and management trouble of the ‘ Mid-Hants Railway ’ , some of it even forecasting the forthcoming demise of the Watercress Line . |
| 6 | Barely registering Gwen 's horrified face , she turned and whirled out , crashing the back door against the wall so hard that the echoes seemed to follow her fleeing figure . |
| 7 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 8 | However , I shall leave this problem to one side for the moment and concentrate instead on pursuing the general line of reductivist strategy , which remains unaffected by the choice of basic entities . |
| 9 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |
| 10 | The British Ambassador in Madrid , Sir Samuel Hoare , rapidly appreciated the potential value , for pursuing the Allied objective of Spanish neutrality , of the monarchists ' increasing opposition to the Falange , Serrano Suñer and the pro-Axis policies they supported . |
| 11 | Given the pressure on sites within the Science Area the University is actively pursuing the possible provision of research facilities on other sites within the City , in addition to seeking to acquire the Radcliffe Infirmary ( see para. 3.2 above ) . |
| 12 | He also promotes his staff according to merit , rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady , age-linked advancement . |
| 13 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 14 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 15 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 16 | So far , the explanation of corporate crime has concentrated on the specific long-term goal-orientated feature of corporations and the personnel who might become suited knights ambitiously pursuing the Holy Grail of profits , and who would , if necessary , be willing to initiate and execute crimes for the good of the corporation . |
| 17 | But neither of them is incapable of pursuing the artificial fiction of being himself . |
| 18 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 19 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 20 | Thorns and holly grew where Tallis lay , absorbing the marrow of the wolf and the crow , sucking the sad life of the stillborn infant , tapping the memories of Old Silent Tree and the grandmother skull that nestled by it . |
| 21 | He was still high on the adrenaline generated by the mass hysteria he had whipped up , then fed on , like a vampire sucking the tainted blood of its own unclean offspring . |
| 22 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 23 | The pronounced topside knuckle not only contains water ballast tanks , but also , by angling the top panel of the knuckle fairly sharply inboard , enables deck area and thus weight to be reduced . |
| 24 | She waited to be told , but he stayed silent , sipping , angling the damaged side of his face towards her . |
| 25 | ‘ Tomorrow , ’ she said , ‘ nudging the last float of ice at the penguin 's feet , ‘ tomorrow you 'll feel different — trust me ! ’ |
| 26 | As mentioned in the sub-section on SPRs , a number of SSRs should be generated when responding to a complex SPR , thus allowing the complete description to be stored in LIFESPAN . |
| 27 | Now , however , the constitutional court , whose chairman is allied with the anti-reformers in parliament , has begun investigating whether the bank acted unconstitutionally in allowing the real value of savers ' accounts to fall . |
| 28 | Following annealing , this sequence remains single stranded allowing the annealed oligonucleotide to be cloned into the Bam HI site in the vector pBL 2 CAT ( 16 ) . |
| 29 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 30 | The activities outlined above , and the results achieved , strengthened the foundations established in our first year of operation — allowing the continued development of training programmes to realise the full economic potential of the people and businesses of Glasgow . |