Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this diagram the values of single boreholes were linked together depending on the reflectance ranges . |
| 2 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 3 | It has the advantage that current drawn by the arms of the bridge is supplied by the source and so loading of the ratio windings and possible consequential disturbance of the potential difference ratio from is avoided . |
| 4 | Secondly , I tried the 3-day diet which was so depriving during the diet days ( 3 days on , 2 days off ) that I still binged every week , felt terrible mentally and my weight fluctuated ! |
| 5 | Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge . |
| 6 | It supports up to 15 drives per controller pair , thus appearing to the host computers as several very large SCSI-2 devices . |
| 7 | OCLC waives its charges for the use of most services , thus contributing to the teaching resources of participating schools . |
| 8 | I spent it on a bike , carried on doing a paper round , and by the time I was 14 , I was already contributing to the family coffers . |
| 9 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 10 | Mm oh I 'm pleased about that , I 'm just waiting for the wedding bells , I said to Robert I said if they ca n't get any one to witness it , I said we 'll be there , , he said , well you I said what do you mean ? |
| 11 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 12 | If you have n't come across foot-assisted trowels before these have a long tubular handle and work as the name suggests allowing the whole weight of the body to force the trowel into the ground , rather than just relying on the arm muscles . |
| 13 | Rob is still driving and is soon steering by the tree tops since the mist is so dense . |
| 14 | Just thinking of the role plays . |
| 15 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 16 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 17 | But you 're still looking at the bar spaces a hundred and fifty pounds , and seat spaces two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 18 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 19 | The defect of this mutant may thus reside in a factor that modulates transcription without directly interacting with the promoter elements of the MHC class II genes . |
| 20 | Interesting , then , that his book was published at a time when the Western world was still recoiling after the oil sheikhs ' first shock to our system . |
| 21 | THE Royal Family spent yesterday preparing for the Christmas festivities much like any other family . |
| 22 | He wove these and other influences from Florentine contemporaries into a distinctive manner , at once responding to the plastic values of Donatello but never renouncing an almost calligraphic approach to outlines and drapery . |
| 23 | The team that holds its nerve as pressure builds up will gain automatic promotion with the others plunged into yet more nailbiting in the play-off stakes . |
| 24 | Judge Furner was still presiding over the county courts at Lewes after twenty-two years , and he continued to order defaulting and mostly absent debtors to be punished by having to spend short terms in the county gaol , for some time after New Years Day 1870 . |
| 25 | In Britain there remained many common ties between Communists and Labour Party members and many Communists were still working within the trade unions . |
| 26 | Also capitulating to the student protesters , television director-general Pavel Pisarev resigned on July 5 . |
| 27 | The reason why Lieberson is doubtful about the control variable approach is the selectivity processes are probably operating within the control variables themselves and involve factors which affect the dependent variable but in unmeasured ways . |
| 28 | The young Beatrice Potter , anonymously living among the textile workers of Bacup , had no doubt that she shared the lives of the ‘ comfortable working class ’ — dissenters and co-operators , a tight community without the casual , marginal or ‘ unrespectable ’ , surrounded by ‘ the general well-being of well-earned and well-paid work ’ , ‘ the cottages comfortable and well-furnished , and the teas excellent ’ . |
| 29 | This approach was gradually accepted , though not before inflation had reduced the tax threshold so low that most poor wage-earners were also benefiting from the tax allowances . |
| 30 | Capitalist agriculture was also expanding in the cotton areas of Durango and sugar plantations of Sinaloa , which were other areas of peasant revolt . |