Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes are the blue of a shallow sea , watering slightly at the corners , a trickle of moisture sinking into the parched skin . |
| 2 | After he had walked a little distance , he noticed that the concrete slabs underfoot were glistening damply in the torch light from the constant dripping of moisture seeping through the joints in the roof from the earth above . |
| 3 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 4 | It is clear that these organizations have different points of unity depending on the concerns of their members . |
| 5 | The awareness of unity existing in the diversity of objects ( intuition or ‘ para para ’ ) — the middle level . |
| 6 | It also includes people who were resident in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the relevant time falls ( see IHTA 1984 , s267 ) . |
| 7 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 8 | Great quantities of effluent pouring into the river added to the stench of local skin and tannery works to produce appalling smells and what one official report referred to as ‘ gross pollution ’ . |
| 9 | Yet in order to understand the present pattern and appearance of settlements , allowance has to be made for varying degrees of change occurring in the past . |
| 10 | There is a wind of change blowing through the corporate environment these days , one that has long been predicted but that few expected to actually see . |
| 11 | Wilde , she argued , was in a state of insanity owing to the shock to his self-esteem of prison , ‘ and the exposure of the abnormal and filthy practises which he had been indulging in with stable boys ’ . |
| 12 | He could smell his own burned flesh on them , could see blackened streamers of skin sticking to the metal . |
| 13 | This ‘ blanket ’ is a generous fold of skin stretching from the side of the neck to the tips of fingers and toes and extending to the tip of the long tail on each side of the body . |
| 14 | Julian was telling me that erm he 's house on a Friday night is like a mad house because his daughter does a bit of hair dressing on the side , and she 's having people come to have their hair done |
| 15 | Even within living memory the following saying was often quoted : ‘ If you find an honest miller you 'll know him by the tuft of hair growing in the palm of his hand . ’ |
| 16 | This loss of optional travel was also exacerbated by the intensified competition from longdistance coaches following the liberalisation of route licensing in the 1980 Transport Act . |
| 17 | To reintroduce us to the joys of story telling round the log fire , Signals rounded up a slightly disconcerting group of five contemporary writers , all strange to me . |
| 18 | Sheep — the main culprit of woodland grazing in the LFAs — have increased in Powys from 1.51 million in 1939 to 3.13 million in 1982 , more than a doubling in numbers . |
| 19 | This is the voice of communism relaying to the reader unfaltering ideological orthodoxy , pushing the reader constantly towards greater political , social and historical awareness . |
| 20 | We 're used to the sharp cracks of lightning and the belch of thunder issuing from the belly of the sky . |
| 21 | Came quite deliberately , though as usual Hilda had made plenty of noise coming down the stairs to ensure that her presence was known . |
| 22 | They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man . |
| 23 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 24 | With the likes of Ministry marching over the hairy horizon , Eugenius and their casual like are virtually being pushed towards the mainstream . |
| 25 | Police chiefs say they had evidence of drug dealing on the site , and had met with violence when they approached before . |
| 26 | The police say they acted after hearing reports of drug dealing in the run up to a warehouse party . |
| 27 | Police have said there was evidence of drug taking at the £17-a-head event , including discarded packets of white powder and some cannabis resin , but there were no arrests for drugs . |
| 28 | The next three chapters concentrate on interviews with users themselves and on establishing the extent to which our agency surveys , which define the known sector of drug use , underestimate the overall prevalence of drug taking in the community . |
| 29 | Operation Cyril One of our biggest successes against the rapidly growing menace of drug smuggling with the new cutter fleet was code-named Cyril . |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia had executed more than 38 people convicted of drug smuggling in the past five years , a Saudi security official was quoted by Reuters as saying on Oct. 6 . |