Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 3 | Having read your newspaper for many years , I believe your edition of April 17th best illustrates the dilemma facing those who interpret the events of the late 20th century . |
| 4 | Now that so many other pubs sell cask ale , I feel it is worth reminding people to continue supporting those which pioneered the trend . |
| 5 | ‘ Whatever the source of this material I am glad to say that we have been successful in seizing large amounts and bringing those who broke the law to book , ’ Mr Atkins said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | By doing that you made the whole crime worthless . |
| 9 | It 's also saying that you know the family it 's only the family unit that helps itself out so if you 're an orphan |
| 10 | In doing this they provide the material for their own cultural development that is self-determining and self-governing . |
| 11 | In doing this she demonstrated the way in which , having once made contact with one 's feelings , it becomes possible to convert pain into creative action . |
| 12 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 13 | The stage is high , deterring those who see the stage as their personal Kuwait and giving the laser-lit silhouettes of the Inspirals real presence when they arrive to a pre-recorded keyboard and mooing groove . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And who would say that enough was enough , and would take on the task of punishing those who transgressed the rules of the game ? |
| 16 | Behind it seems to lie a powerful public need to provide a justification for social inequality by blaming those who have the rawest deal for their own fate : hence the stereotyping of immigrants , and of women , as well as of older people . |
| 17 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |
| 18 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 19 | Even the knighthood was not the honour it might seem , for James I had instigated the practice of charging for knighthoods , and Charles I had compounded his profit by fining those who had the temerity to refuse . |
| 20 | WITH A REVISED VERSION OF PAT LITTLEJOHN 'S POPULAR ‘ SOUTH WEST CLIMBS ’ GUIDE NOW AVAILABLE , PUBLISHER KEN WILSON DESCRIBES SOME OF THE EXCELLENT AND ADVENTUROUS EXCURSIONS AWAITING THOSE WHO VISIT THE AREAS COVERED BY THE BOOK |
| 21 | It is becoming increasingly clear that this whole process , defined in one recent study as ‘ a set of procedures for uniting those who control the resources necessary for certain tasks ( the members of a municipal council or the shareholders in a company for example ) with those who use the goods or services produced from these resources ( pupils , patients , tenants , customers , etc. ) 'i is itself part of policy making . |
| 22 | Following this we have the long period of isostatic emergence , rapid weathering of the new mountains with the formation of molasse-type deposits , widespread red bed sedimentation and also perhaps a period of glaciation , before peneplanation , widespread marine transgressions and the recommencement of the cycle in new troughs . |