Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little leaching from the catchment area , which is small and covered with perennial ice , bare rock or scree , with hardly any mineral soil or vegetation . |
| 2 | The largest group affected is , as we have already noted , that consisting of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 3 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 4 | The Faculty is one of the largest of its type in Europe , consisting of six Departments in which are located some 180 members of academic staff , each contributing to the strength of the Faculty with their scholarship and expertise . |
| 5 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 6 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 7 | The head deals with the first , class teachers with the second , and there is little blurring at the edges . |
| 8 | The Local Government Act 1972 specifically states that the only business which can be transacted is that appearing in the summons convening the meeting . |
| 9 | I 'm all for loud singing and opposition-baiting at matches and other times , but I do n't normally Do The Dambusters , or worse still the ‘ who 's that dying on the runway ’ stuff . |
| 10 | Another great piece of illustration features in a book for younger readers , Who 's That Banging on The Ceiling ? |
| 11 | over taking you know cutting right in front of you and er , you just , I see things in front of me and I can hardly believe that there has n't been a horrible accident , you know , just seeing the things that happening on the road . |
| 12 | For a blind with a shaped hemline , a further allowance should be added for facing the shaped edge ; allow a depth of between 8 and 15cm ( 3–6in ) for this depending on the depth of the edging below the lath . |
| 13 | Oh yes , I could do that , thought Grainne , sleepless and still half drowning in the warmth and the sweetness . |
| 14 | Mr McGill repairs a window to make it safe , paints the air raid shelter door , does some concreting in the garden . |
| 15 | To supplement the engineering investigation there could be one investigator concentrating on the aircraft structure and flying controls , with another working on power plants , i.e. engines and fuel systems , another concerned with hydraulic , electrical , pneumatic and electronic systems , and yet another checking through the maintenance records . |
| 16 | I 've already done some checking with the Luftwaffe . |
| 17 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 18 | Action has been taken to prevent this occurring in the future . |
| 19 | And the next thing I know as this banging on the door ! |
| 20 | Susan had no sooner sat down than there was another knocking at the door . |
| 21 | This tearing of the curtain symbolised that the God who was hidden is now revealed to all people . |
| 22 | Even as he made back up towards it , half pulling , half swimming along the line leading towards the rapidly swelling shape that he knew was his raft , the water he was in turned solid , sweeping him effortlessly to one side . |
| 23 | He shuddered a little , but whether at the memory of this vomiting by the water 's edge or of something even uglier Wexford could not tell . |
| 24 | And then you had a sort of a gadget what would slide the st there was strap coming from the pulley of the oil engine onto There was a loose pulley and there was a gadget , you could slide the strap onto the loose pulley , then that that was only just er turning loose of course , then you slid it back on the fixed and it 's be turning all this shafting along the barn and then there were pulley sets on that and in direct line with crusher and chaff cutter and the scrapping machine you had a a strap form those . |
| 25 | Some leaning against the spiles ; some seated upon the pier-heads ; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China ; some high aloft in the rigging , as if striving to get a still better seaward peep . |
| 26 | After some searching in the entrails of the massive wall , they located an insulated , though hot , hatch — and undogged it . |
| 27 | I can not give you the exact quantities you should use , for it will vary from one water to another according to the carp population . |
| 28 | Their controlled study showed that the social withdrawal and poverty of speech of chronic patients varied from one hospital to another according to the severity of ward restrictiveness , absence of personal belongings , and the length of time that patients were left to do nothing . |
| 29 | Moreover , the magnitude of a sexual problem may vary from one person to another according to the extent of sexual urge and sexual need . |
| 30 | " No , I suppose not , " He was only half listening to the bookseller . |