Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only strings consisting entirely of items in the RM1 lexicon were selected . |
| 2 | Robert Bakker and the AAAS report notwithstanding , animal metabolism is a rather complicated subject , depending greatly for clarity on the precise definition of terms . |
| 3 | The Washington Post of April 13 reported that death rates among refugees were unclear , but that relief officials estimated that up to 1,000 were dying daily in camps along the Turkish and Iranian borders . |
| 4 | But then , he has been checking his lambs , fattening nicely for sale in the byre . |
| 5 | For ten days the Nez Perce trailed slowly south , trading peacefully with settlements on the Bitterroot . |
| 6 | Swan was very careful to fly low all the time , keeping just in front of the Gruncher , leading him on and on , threading a path carefully through the great trees in the forest . |
| 7 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 8 | For the surfers , it was a supreme challenge keeping upright on top of the torrent of water and avoiding the danger of being dashed against the river bank . |
| 9 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 10 | The situation is changing now as young people with skills are becoming more in demand in the labour market with the falling youth population . |
| 11 | I remember one evening when we were returning home from Sitanarhi in the bullock cart . |
| 12 | Thirty-seven year old Michael Hughes , who was married with five children , was driving home to Glasgow from the enquiry in Dumfries , when he collided with a lorry . |
| 13 | We hope that the more frequent training schedule will enable us to get students out teaching classes earlier in the course , returning later to top-up for the examination . |
| 14 | The full-back partnership of Male and Hapgood flowered into one of the most effective in the history of the game , appearing regularly for England in the 1930s . |
| 15 | In fact the conflict had nearly two years to run , but by October 1951 some movement was occurring even in Washington on the subject of relations with the USSR . |
| 16 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 17 | By March , with the Germans driving forwards toward Paris from the north-east and renewed heavy air-raids , Parisians were spending more and more time in cellars and shelters . |
| 18 | Her priorities include giving more encouragement to medical research ; emphasis on preventive health to make the NHS a ‘ health as well as a sickness service ’ , with the publication shortly of new national targets for reducing deaths from heart disease and cancers ; and pressing ahead with care in the community . |
| 19 | On the contrary , among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at the community of Qumran , there are rules applying specifically to members of the sect who are married and have children . |
| 20 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 21 | He was lashing away at balls on the practice ground . |
| 22 | Death becomes the way out of deep hurts , the unexpressed griefs and resentments eating away at self over the years . |
| 23 | This frontal assault on goal , he explained to the Examiner , was held to be a ‘ more deadly , if less spectacular , method ’ than the ‘ senseless policy of running along the lines and centring just in front of the goalmouth , where the odds are nine to one on the defenders ’ . |
| 24 | The new Conservative leader Mrs Thatcher , was finding it hard to assert herself , especially with a Shadow Cabinet consisting largely of followers of the defeated Edward Heath . |
| 25 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 26 | The guns were loaded , their portfires smoking gently in readiness for the French . |
| 27 | It is probably best found by looking directly between Achernar to the one side and Lepus to the other . |
| 28 | I forgot that someone was living illegally in Paris on the floor of my home and demanding a large sum of money to leave . |
| 29 | However , as many canoeists who frequent the rivers Severn and Wye will confirm , the sport of super rafting is rapidly developing both in terms of the number and races and teams around the country and in the techniques and equipment used by the participants . |
| 30 | This included a Registry function for receipt and despatch of correspondence , acting also as custodian of the central filing system , which was supplemented in the branches of the two departments by outposted files maintained by branch clerks . |