Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [art] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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1 The missing boy was n't really interfering with the progress of the Connon case , because the progress only existed in theory .
2 Doors that swing inwards present the problem of curtain fabric interfering with the operation of the doors .
3 Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process .
4 v. Laughton where , it will be remembered , the I.T.F. union , in dispute with Merkur Island , a flag of convenience shipowner , induced tug-boat crews to refuse , in breach of their contracts of employment , to move Merkur Island 's vessel , thereby interfering with the charter of the vessel to Leif Hoegh .
5 A great bed with a dark carved headboard like an ecclesiastical panel reaching half-way up the wall , a chest of drawers supporting a mirror between brass pillars , a desk dropped open exposing drawers and pigeon holes stuffed with papers : these high-polished , sombre items , out of keeping with the rest of the house , subsided within the airtight hush of the room curtained and shuttered against the light .
6 Where a director of music has an inadequate knowledge of the liturgy , the musical contribution may be at best out of keeping with the rest of the celebration , and at worst destructive of it .
7 The suggested move towards a centrally-determined curriculum , however , was still out of keeping with the spirit of the times .
8 They consider the gates are too large and out of keeping with the character of the area .
9 The surroundings were wholly out of keeping with the importance of the people there and the nature of their task .
10 The Mozart shown beneath the Chopin has the same form , using repetition and ending with a recall of the first section .
11 On the hearing of the petition he decided that the debtor had ‘ carried on business in England and Wales ’ within a period of three years ending with the presentation of the petition for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of the Insolvency Act 1986and made the order sought .
12 The season 's finale was the annual festival ending with the presentation of the ‘ Fair Play Award ’ by GM to the team who , in the opinion of the Umpire , approached the day in the true spirit of the game .
13 Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner .
14 His main means of communicating with the rest of the world is a laptop computer with a speech synthesiser .
15 We are now living with the law of the jungle .
16 It is here that an anthropological observing participation comes into its own , for in living with the semantics of the system the analyst has the potential to undertake a rarely used method of social research .
17 The mother of two children , a girl born in 1986 and a boy born in 1989 , was living with the father of the boy when both children suffered minor non-accidental injury .
18 Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment .
19 She turned her face into the pillow , still trembling with the force of the passion he 'd unleashed , then left unquenched .
20 Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States .
21 There was speculation that in distancing himself from the Khmers Rouges , Sihanouk was acting with the approval of the Chinese government .
22 At that point he is acting with the consent of the shopkeeper .
23 This week William and his horse Chaka have been training with the rest of the British team at Badminton … back in the spring they enjoyed their finest hour here when they finished seventh in the annual championships …
24 It was n't a courtship at all , according to Eileen 's outraged family , who viewed her meeting with a member of the Protestant gentry with deep suspicion .
25 And sure enough , he watched Ibrahim visit the Lebanese Embassy several times a week , and he photographed Ibrahim 's Dutch girlfriend meeting with a member of the PLO delegation in a side street near the Churchill hotel .
26 meeting with the leader of the Labour group who 's supposedly doing all this to protect his wife .
27 There was a cultural bias against them too : much of British theatre and cinema in the fifties and sixties was peopled by heroes and anti-heroes wrestling with the small-mindedness of the lower-middle class .
28 She did cry a little , almost soundlessly , and was furious with herself for doing so , her tears mingling with the spray of the shower .
29 The directive had been unpublicized , and was only confirmed officially on Jan. 25 after the news had been leaked by the independent Interfax news agency ( which was now operating with the support of the Russian Federation government and Moscow city council after Gosteleradio had withdrawn its support in January — see p. 37972 ) .
30 He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ?
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