Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 However , because it is the weight distribution rather than the frequency distribution which determines sediment behaviour during transport and deposition the weight of the pebbles falling into each size class should be used for the purposes of comparison .
2 The overseas office of an MNP is in a slightly different position ; the solicitors practising from that office ( including all the solicitor partners , whether resident overseas or not ) are governed by the Solicitors ' Overseas Practice Rules 1990 , and solicitor partners will be responsible for ensuring the office 's compliance .
3 He also considered the relationship between mispricings of index futures and mispricings of S&P100 index options , and discovered a contemporaneous correlation between changes in the futures mispricing for each of the three index futures and changes in the mispricing of the S&P ; 100 option .
4 Assume that we have an additional relation which is also in TNF giving details about the students taking modules and the lecturers teaching on those modules .
5 The debts owing by each of the bankrupts exceeded the values of their interests in the homes .
6 Those summer nights will stay with me for ever , with the moon illuminating the darkness and the birds calling to each other in the trees at sunset .
7 Everything comes to life in the summer with the long days , the moon to illuminate the darkness , and the birds calling to each other in the trees .
8 Kenneth Langford said the noise of the prisoners shouting to each other at night was ‘ not too bad ’ at the moment , but that the proposed new blocks would bring the prisoners too close to the rear of his property .
9 But the sheer effort required to gather and analyse data systematically , let alone the lobbying activities to initiate change , often exceeds the capacity of the groups working on this issue .
10 Many of the cases falling within this offence may involve serious fault — where there is racing on the highway , for example , or a prolonged course of very bad driving , or bad driving in order to avoid apprehension .
11 An obligation to file an answer to an originating application only arises if there is some specific provision in the rules relating to that particular application , or if the court so orders .
12 The rules applying to such proceedings are the Insolvency Rules 1986 .
13 The roads leading to these houses are guarded to prevent the general species of mankind from entering ; and I felt a slight twinge of sorrow for these rich people who have isolated themselves in these strange colonies and deprived themselves of the society of humble and unpretentious men who add the savour to human society ; for it is only in such men that the real spirit of joy , and freedom resides .
14 Across its glossy cover , his right hand was stretched wide , the fingers straining towards some unattainable circumference .
15 The authorities relating to those provisions demonstrated the desirability at the very least of the need to adjourn for fresh hearing when a bench of two disagree .
16 Journalists also represent a fertile field of would-be Parliamentarians : in each successive general election since 1959 , over 100 of the candidates standing for all three major political parties have been journalists .
17 ( We can construct doubly infinite sequences of Ts and Ss which contain every possible finite sequence of Ts and Ss ; the trajectories corresponding to these sequences pass as close as we like to any other trajectory in the invariant set. ) ( 4 ) Periodic orbits are dense in the strange invariant set .
18 So that when one entered one would find the pictures talking to each other and you would enter and listen .
19 The way in which the 80 bp fragment stimulates transcription suggests that the proteins binding to this fragment work like activators ( see 23 ) .
20 Oncoming carts appeared in the gloom , the drivers calling to each other , one moving over for the other .
21 Two horse-drawn buses careered down the middle of the road , the drivers racing against each other , scattering everything in their way , including the piles of rubbish which lay stinking in the heat .
22 ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’
23 It was n't the cars there it was the cars turning in that 's stopping him getting out .
24 This was infrequent in the units participating in this study , but in centres where the relative surgical and endoscopic expertise is different such a situation may well arise more commonly .
25 However , whereas most studies suggest that the fungi developing in these secondary sites are normal , regardless of their position , studies by Glenn Richards and Myrtle Smith , of Minnesota University , on Herpomyces , a parasite of cockroaches , indicate that different parts of an insect 's exoskeleton may differ in their susceptibility to Laboulbeniales .
26 This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission .
27 One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life .
28 These are examples of synchronic analysis : slicing through the relationships obtaining at any one time in the social-cultural formation .
29 The colors corresponding to these wavelengths are absent from the reflected light , which therefore appears to be colored .
30 Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time .
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