Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office has asked through the Scottish Education Department that we write to all governing bodies in Scotland reminding them of the difficulties created by urgent requests for naturalisation shortly before international sporting events . |
| 2 | At the lasts two A.G.M. 's of the parent body , the Hong Kong Branch has failed to comply with the constitution in that they have not submitted a Branch Report for consideration by the A.G.M. The chairman of Standing Committee has subsequently written to the Branch on several occasions reminding them of the need to submit a report and so far , has not received a reply . |
| 3 | On fine days start cutting sprigs of herbs for drying , hanging them in a shed to dry out completely before crushing for storage in screw-top jars . |
| 4 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 5 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 6 | These marine otters of California regularly open mollusc shells , whilst floating on their backs , by banging them against a rock balanced on their bellies . |
| 7 | Photographing them for an interval gives portions of particle paths , which , if short enough , can be used to synthesize a streamline pattern even in unsteady flow ( e.g. Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 8 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 9 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 10 | Any proceeds in year 1 are also present values , but those in succeeding years are discounted by multiplying them by the fraction given at the appropriate year in the chosen rate of interest column in the tables . |
| 11 | Any proceeds in year 1 are also present values , but those in succeeding years are discounted by multiplying them by the fraction given at the appropriate year in the chosen rate of interest column in the tables . |
| 12 | And the need for audience contact I found particularly important because if you get feedback from the audience looking them in the eye involving them then you 're able to know how your talk is progressing and whether you need to modify it in any way to be able to maintain the audience 's interest . |
| 13 | But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary . |
| 14 | Clematis are also a good choice — try growing them with a rose to extend the period of interest , but make sure neither is too vigorous a grower . |
| 15 | Collinson was meticulous in his careful distribution of plants and seeds always including instructions on growing them in a manner approximating to their native conditions , as carefully described by John Bartram . |
| 16 | They would draw representatives from the business community , voluntary and interest groups , providing them with the opportunity to influence plans and priorities and comment on the quality of services . |
| 17 | Formerly known as Operation Raleigh , the charity aims to develop young people by providing them with the opportunity to work on demanding environmental and conservation projects in remote areas of the world . |
| 18 | The kittens are certainly influenced by what their mother does , but there is no evidence that her action is directed at one specific behaviour , rather than simply providing them with an opportunity to behave generally with the victim . |
| 19 | Annual trips and holidays are organised for disabled children , providing them with an opportunity to experience different environments . |
| 20 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 21 | Allan argues that these class differences are due to very different ways of organizing friendship ( p. 49 ) : ‘ Briefly , whereas the working-class respondents tended to restrict interaction with their friends ( and with their other sociable companions ) to particular social contexts , the middle class respondents developed their friendships by explicitly removing them from the constraints imposed by specific settings . ’ |
| 22 | The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) . |
| 23 | The addition of the necessary chemicals can be made at the same time , and the plant requires means for adding these , mixing them with the water to give time for interaction , and removing the precipitate by sedimentation , usually by some variation of the " upward-flow " type of tank . |
| 24 | Inevitably , since there are only twelve tissue salt preparations , an attempt was made with varying degrees of success to enlarge their scope by mixing them in an effort to cover other symptomatologies . |
| 25 | At the moment she was cutting up courgettes and dropping them into a saucepan containing peppers and onions and tomatoes . |
| 26 | This will be achieved by analysing the criteria used to select expert system applications and comparing them with the criteria used to evaluate the feasibility of traditional data processing projects . |
| 27 | At least three vans regularly tour London persuading Jews to fulfil religious obligations — inviting them into the vans to say prayers or recite the traditional blessings over bread and wine . |
| 28 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 29 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 30 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |