Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring she planted a garden of remembrance round the grave using all the flowers her mother had loved . |
| 2 | His response was the great ode , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , a masterpiece reflecting all the thinking he had done about poetry , pain , and redemption during his years of silence . |
| 3 | Practise selecting different blocks of text using all the keystrokes above . |
| 4 | After three years of redrafting and hard debate , a large majority in the Council was able to welcome a text reflecting both the ideas and the spirit of the more ‘ pastoral ’ tendency . |
| 5 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 6 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 7 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 8 | In a result reflecting both the republic 's ethnic diversity and a resounding rejection of the ruling Bosnia-Hercegovina League of Communists , the vast majority of seats went to the three main nationalist parties separately appealing to the Moslem , Serb and Croat populations . |
| 9 | A coach departed from Leeds at 8.15pm with parties representing all the constituencies in Leeds plus a party from Shipley and another from Bradford . |
| 10 | Last week , Mr Perez de Cuellar called for a ‘ structured ’ Afghan delegation representing all the Afghan factions to meet and organise an intra-Afghan dialogue . |
| 11 | Renamo was said to have proposed an army of 24,000 soldiers , with a further 1,000-strong air force and 800-strong navy , with each side contributing half the force . |
| 12 | Because it is necessary to include subjects from the other discipline from the first year onwards it is very difficult , although not impossible , to complete a mixed honours degree programme incorporating all the ‘ professional ’ law courses . |
| 13 | With influences dating all the way back to Rodgers and Hammerstein I certainly had the most complete musical education , or at least the broadest . |
| 14 | There were kids dressed in velvet cloaks who lived free lives ; there were thousands of black people everywhere , so I would n't feel exposed ; there were bookshops with racks of magazines printed without capital letters or the bourgeois disturbance of full stops ; there were shops selling all the records you could desire ; there were parties where girls and boys you did n't know took you upstairs and fucked you ; there were all the drugs you could use . |
| 15 | In Miami alone there are reported to be more than fifty botanicas — shops selling all the necessities of the cult — and there are also pet-shops specializing in the doves , chickens and peacocks which devotees require for the rituals . |
| 16 | She was flung violently forward , to land face down in a heap of blankets , the crushing weight of her assailant forcing all the air out of her body . |
| 17 | And then he 'd be grumbling , Why is the the horseman getting all the best stuff . |
| 18 | The beer will have labels giving all the information it is felt the beer consumer needs . |
| 19 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 20 | If we want to show that it is not spurious , we have to demonstrate that there are no plausible prior variables affecting both the variables of interest . |
| 21 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 22 | The polymer then behaves like a stiff spring storing all the available energy in stretching as potential energy , when work is performed on it . |
| 23 | On leaving the Course , any student who has passed at least one module will receive a glossy covered printed transcript showing all the modules passed , their credit value , the grades achieved , the fields ( if any ) studied and the award ( if any ) made . |
| 24 | A few blades of grass clung to the otherwise barren slope , the gale tugging all the while at their roots . |
| 25 | The ticket office was surmounted by a great mural bearing all the symbols of engineering success , a multi-arched bridge , river steamers , and , of course , the steam engine arriving from the left and dominating all . |
| 26 | However , at the financial year end all the invoices that had been received but had not been paid would be collected together for each department say , and a total entry would be put through the books accruing all the payments due to be made . |
| 27 | The steady flow of emigrants from the British Isles meant that landowners in the West Indies did not need to look further afield to find workers for growing tobacco , for which they needed a relatively small labour force working all the year round . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll be telling both captains , Mr. Miandad and Mr. Gooch , ‘ Let's have a Test match to remember — one that stops the Olympics hogging all the limelight ’ . |
| 29 | Example 2 takes the same scale across all the string sets and Example 3 shows how this information may be practically applied to start a cascade effect crossing all the string sets . |
| 30 | A cartoon version of the debt tragedy featuring all the major actors and accompanied by information gems . |