Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When working with couples , the therapist 's role is to help the partners identify the problems that they face as a couple and then to encourage them to tackle those that appear soluble using the approach that has already been described . |
| 2 | For many young people now are confidently writing real music , using the idioms that come most naturally to them . |
| 3 | ‘ Under John 's leadership , the last three years have seen significant progress and given us a good start in tackling the challenges that lie ahead . ’ |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning the supermarkets that have recently been opening on Sundays ? |
| 5 | He was remembering the strength that came gloriously from nowhere when your body seemed to be finished . |
| 6 | And he ran full speed down the hill , by-passing the bodies of Rebel and the lamb and scattering the sheep that had almost settled again . |
| 7 | In practice they overlap : for example , while the inner-city data was still being collected , we were analysing the tape-recordings that had already been obtained . |
| 8 | They will be ignoring the slide that has already taken place — and is accelerating . |
| 9 | Without further ado , he slipped around the corner , and rushed towards the gangplank , ignoring the shots that zipped past . |
| 10 | After eight years of paying lawyers ' fees , Ragu is longer attending court an is ignoring the summonses that arrive regularly . |
| 11 | Since the speaker is discussing the possibility and not the reality of daring , he feels that there is no real daring occupying the before-position that daring normally occupies with respect to the event dared , and consequently does not use to in these contexts . |
| 12 | You have joined the RSPB because you want to help protect birds and their habitats — when we talk about " helping the Society " it is always taken to mean " helping the birds " through supporting the organisation that does most to protect them . |
| 13 | Everywhere in Greece the hoped-for growth of income from tourism depends in part on removing the smells that haunt too many beaches and other places where north Europeans twitch noses and raise eyebrows . |
| 14 | Her arms went round his shoulders , she buried her hot , wet face in his throat , kissing the pulse that beat so rapidly there , and she felt so moved , so deeply in love , that a hoarse sob escaped her lips and a second later she was dragging air into her lungs in a shaky breath filled with emotion . |
| 15 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 16 | He argued that these were : a desire to secure career advancement or at least not prejudice career chances ; a willingness to push matters in order to measure his own cleverness and particularly dexterity at getting around the rules ; to experience the satisfaction which comes from having the power that goes both with high corporate status and criminally victimizing other organizations or persons ; a need to maintain his position within the peer group or family network . |
| 17 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 18 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 19 | CRICKET legend Ian Botham made his shark fishing debut — but returned to port without a bite and bemoaning the ones that got away . |
| 20 | She closed her eyes for a moment , fighting the tremor that began somewhere in the pit of her stomach . |
| 21 | Deem gives the example of cuts in teacher training , which had the effect of reducing the opportunities that had previously been available to large numbers of girls who had been considered by their teachers to be , as they put it to Michelle Stanworth , ‘ not university material ’ . |
| 22 | At Kingsdale I stopped by the road and had a bite to eat before striking off up the fell to Whernside , following the wall that leads upwards towards the summit . |