Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each neighbourhood was assigned a planner who was responsible for notifying neighbourhood residents of planning decisions which were likely to affect them and for channelling requests for action through the appropriate city departments . |
| 2 | Meryl , above , who revealed her singing talents in Postcards From The Edge , will play the role made famous by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 film . |
| 3 | Repeated cases have convinced SAVE that allowing permission for development in the grounds of country houses must be strongly resisted . |
| 4 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 5 | As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability . |
| 6 | This conclusion highlights the importance of seeing support between kin in the context of the interpersonal relationships of the parties to these negotiations . |
| 7 | The graphics are mean and moody , allowing freedom of exploration with the minimum of mapping , the setting is realistic and gives a real feeling of being there , and the puzzles — you 'll be scratching you head for weeks . |
| 8 | In addition , using patterns of variation from the derived standard maturity-depth relationship ( Fig. 2 ) , it is possible to determine the amount of uplift of the Carboniferous section in particular areas . |
| 9 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 10 | A different approach would be to introduce Caldwell recklessness into the non-fatal offences of causing injury , with a view to labelling cases of endangerment in the same way as ‘ traditional ’ crimes . |
| 11 | Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work . |
| 12 | Bumping and alarmed shouts rose behind him as he ran out in ecstasy , tumbling heels over head down the last twists of the stair , to tell his mother he was a castle ghillie now ! |
| 13 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 14 | The exceptionally rich soil here was producing carrots for London by the end of the century when , perhaps , the trade was already long-established . |
| 15 | Western potential for easing tension between parts of the former Soviet Union is easily exaggerated , but there is no harm in reminding Moscow and Kiev that their mutual hostility hardly creates a climate attractive to foreign aid and investment . |
| 16 | Criticism from the Vatican during the papacy of Pope John Paul II had also resulted in one of Arns 's auxiliary bishops , Mgr Luciano Mendes de Almeida , who was also president of the Bishops ' Conference , becoming Archbishop of Mariana in the largely rural state of Minas Gerais , while other progressive Brazilian bishops , including Arns , had lost their seats on Vatican councils and other responsibilities to conservatives . |
| 17 | The file designer can measure the results of applying groups of updates to the file and make timing estimates based on the results of these tests . |
| 18 | Omitting part of sentences on the assumption that an earlier sentence or the context will make the meaning clear is known as ellipsis . |
| 19 | There is speculation that Grand Metropolitan , challenging McDonalds for supremacy of the fast food market , could pay up to £16m for the Allied branches . |
| 20 | not more than 500 000 000 shares ( representing 10% in aggregate of the authorised ordinary share capital of the Company at the time of the Offer for Sale in 1986 ) may be issued under the Scheme ; |
| 21 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 22 | Some could easily be found by incorporating screening for AF into the routine health checks on over 75s already carried out by UK general practitioners . |
| 23 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 24 | Many in the profession have their own example to quote of a rival firm bidding 20% to 50% under the otherwise going rate . |
| 25 | Many in the profession have their own example to quote of a rival firm bidding 20% to 50% under the otherwise going rate |
| 26 | When he left the pitch he started hurling abuse in French at the referee . |
| 27 | ‘ But when Gazza said the word beginning with F while he was representing England on TV before the Norway international , nothing was done . |
| 28 | Both in his foreword to the Italian edition of Reading Capital and his Essays in Self Criticism ( Althusser 1976 ) , Althusser points out his own ‘ theoreticist tendency ’ in equating philosophy with science as the ‘ Theory of theoretical practice ’ ( Althusser 1976 : 124 ) . |
| 29 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 30 | They are essentially problems of the youngster concerned but , in becoming matters of concern for the parents , they are automatically seen as problems in the youngster . |