Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oftel director general Sir Bryan Carsberg said : ‘ I am no longer satisfied that the code makes adequate provision for compensating those who suffer . ’ |
| 2 | Well no I you do n't , I tell you what , after reading these I swear I could write one myself . |
| 3 | In later life his love for seeking that which unites rather than that which divides found full scope in his devotion to Freemasonry , which became the ruling factor of his every action . |
| 4 | Once again , however , the declared aim and the reality are not actually coterminous , and prevention as such has always had lower status than the task of catching those who do the taking . |
| 5 | Should not we now bend our efforts to supporting the proposal that the Minister mentioned and to finding some way of compensating those who have lost dearly ? |
| 6 | This Aids quit which is being taken around the country , recently came to Oxford ; a way of remembering those who 've died , whilst keeping hopes alive for the future . |
| 7 | It was not , for them , simply a matter of supposing that what held true in some cases would hold in all , but of their coming to see a particular case as an instance of an intuitively recognizable universal truth . |
| 8 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 9 | Anything other than an uncritical acceptance is a direct challenge to the idea of the rule of law which has sustained the police since their inception and which argues that the replication of a known system of order is the best means of containing those who need to be controlled . |
| 10 | And who would say that enough was enough , and would take on the task of punishing those who transgressed the rules of the game ? |
| 11 | Municipalities had , prior to nationalisation , often controlled local electricity sales and distribution , and the 1947 Act required the Minister to establish Consultative Councils of consumers , to expand this tradition of consulting those who used the monopoly electricity service . |
| 12 | ‘ We will introduce the policies that we have undertaken to introduce , and in the course of doing that I hope we can attract a breadth of support to add to our majority and to add to the degree of consensus supporting that majority , ’ he added . |
| 13 | You sees like cutting , you know you see these walls that are like that and they sort of go down like that and join a pillar and do the same again , just , instead of doing that you lay the soldiers across the top and you , you 've got to sort of cut the bricks in between ai n't ya ? |
| 14 | Unlike Strachey , he discovered a way of doing this which did not involve the subordination of British socialism to the ideological hegemony of either of the emerging superpowers . |
| 15 | To stand the best chance of doing this they need to win the group , which would bring them a match in Bologna against the runners-up from Group E. |
| 16 | I do n't think Lewis er thought Stone was capable of doing this you know and he 's got into a great situation there . |
| 17 | In addition we will examine ways of giving those who retire with lump sum payments more choice as to how their savings are invested . |
| 18 | Finally , in continuity with some elements of the earlier anti-slave trade argument , Buxton , Stephen and Clarkson all saw British pride in the achievement of abolition and the moral stature this accorded the nation , at least in its own eyes , as requiring the step of liberating those who had been stolen from Africa before 1807 and their descendants since the principle of hostility to man stealing remained the same . |
| 19 | Before deciding on whom to invite to succeed Sir Richard the BDDA created other opportunities of honouring all who rendered outstanding service to the BDDA by the introduction of " medals of honour " . |
| 20 | It would be very difficult would n't it because the British then would be sort of admitting that you know , what would they do if their own troops were sent in , what would they do ? |
| 21 | It is worth noting that what began for Victoria as admiration , tinged with a degree of condescension , developed over the years into genuine friendship and a respect for Eugénie 's character which was to link both sovereigns ever more closely until the Queen 's death in 1901 . |
| 22 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 23 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 24 | Its decisions could be positive , by directing investment or controlling both prices and production , or negative , through punishing those who ignored its decisions . |
| 25 | for doing that you go forty |
| 26 | We did some more research and we found out that in return for doing this you had to pay the minister a fine , so we found a minister who was very excited by the idea of marrying us in a seventeen century house , and in fact , on the morning of the wedding he was more worried about what he was wearing than what I was ! |
| 27 | There is some justification for treating those who run these enterprises as capitalists if they manifest certain characteristics . |
| 28 | Much recent historicist revisionism within the early modern period has been particularly vocal in opposing those who attempt to discover an organised political character among those groups outside the formal organisation of official state policy . |
| 29 | In challenging this we believe in the unity of the working class . |
| 30 | Progress is being made by scientists in understanding both what causes the pleasure of drugs and what makes the pleasure so hard to give up ( see page 123 ) . |