Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 2 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 3 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 4 | Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay . |
| 5 | He found the Regent dismounted and talking to the magistrate-father of the messenger . |
| 6 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 7 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 8 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 9 | When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this . |
| 10 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 11 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 12 | The report added that according to the police and the Botswana Defence Force ( BDF ) , the SADF had carried out 20 direct attacks or acts of sabotage against Botswana up to February 1989 , killing 31 civilians , of whom 70 per cent were Botswanan citizens , the rest being refugees or visitors . |
| 13 | In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ . |
| 14 | An article in Izvestiya of Nov. 2 , however , noted that according to the 1991 Russian Federation law on the rehabilitation of repressed peoples , deported peoples had the right to the land on which they had lived before their deportation . |
| 15 | 11–2–1903 The Moderator intimated that owing to the state of his health he was no longer able to perform all his duties and resolved to ask the General Assembly for a grant from the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund to aid in securing the services of an unordained assistant . |
| 16 | A hideously powerful blow on one of the boards sent it splintered and whirling into the basement . |
| 17 | The first real scare came while flying over the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | Rubbish , of course , but Dr Forster , the meteorologist of Bruges , declared that according to the journal kept by his grandfather , father and self , from 1767 to the 1880s , whenever the new Moon had fallen on Saturday the following 20 days were wet and windy , in 19 cases out of 20 . |
| 19 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
| 20 | The results showed that knowing about the theme of the passage only at recall did not improve performance . |
| 21 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 22 | They hover together in their crowded safety , their tables littered by empty pint glasses rimmed and dripping with the foamy froth of leftover lager , and ashtrays overflowing like untidy clumps of ashen moss . |
| 23 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 24 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 25 | Of the 6111 recorded as working in the Royal docks , 5093 ( 83.3 per cent ) lived in Canning Town or Plaistow . |
| 26 | While he condemned as pride the solitary life-style which arises from self-reliance rather than faith in God ( 14.87 ) he countered his opponents with another Scriptural quotation from Osee ( Hosea ) 2:14 interpreted as referring to the relationship between God and the soul : " I will lead her into solitude , and I will speak to her heart " ( 13.83 ) . |
| 27 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 28 | The type of reactor used at Chernobyl had a design flaw , which meant that dropping in the control rods to avert a surge in power briefly exacerbated the surge . |
| 29 | Erm to my self respect and I just I was determined that it was n't going to happen to my daughter , so in consequence I saw that working on the side to get to get the uniform so that she could go to school in a new uniform same as all the other kids as a necessity . |
| 30 | The parents felt that continuing with the full formal intervention ( recording , reward menu , reminders during the day , etc ) was not necessary . |