Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stravinsky ensures a happy yet solemn ending to The Firebird by using the old Easter hymn ‘ At the Gate ’ where the whole congregation rejoices at the renewal of life . |
| 2 | Barbara Jeffries had gone from managing the Manor to running the entire Studio Division . |
| 3 | In Sections 4.4 and 4.7 we described the way in which schools set about spending their project grants and the key role played by the DCSLs in advising schools on the " weeding " of existing stock , the range of available books and materials , and the mechanics of ordering , cataloguing and shelving their acquisitions . |
| 4 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 5 | The dispute led to a French boycott of meetings of the Council of Ministers , effectively preventing the EEC from launching any new developments . |
| 6 | In a preliminary council , Joseph received miles ' that his people could winter with Miles on the Yellowstone before returning to Lapwai . |
| 7 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 8 | He served as a Flying Officer with the RAF before joining Unilever as a management trainee . |
| 9 | This is the tale of 575237 Bowers R C , an ex-Halton apprentice who served for 38 years with the RAF before retiring as Wing Commander Engineer . |
| 10 | My experience also spans the full spectrum of aircraft maintenance within the RAF from turning them around for the next flight at the sharp end , through the deeper repair at station level to the major repair at remote sites . |
| 11 | As the third round opened Rwanda 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Boniface Ngulinzaira , accused the FPR of having violated the ceasefire signed by the two sides on July 12 . |
| 12 | Rentokil were voted Company of the Year The Jibes about tackling dry rot in the Cabinet came thick and fast . |
| 13 | Back in 1986 the president accused the Ewes of mounting a failed coup against him , claiming that the plot involved Ghana 's leader , Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ; Mr Rawlings is an Ewe on his mother 's side ( his father was Scottish ) . |
| 14 | The Mauritanian Renewal Party ( PMR ) was led by Moulay al-Hassan Ould Jeydid , described as an engineer and former mayor of the northern town of Zouerate , who accused the PRDS of using state facilities , claiming that several ministers had become officials of the PRDS while retaining their ministerial privileges . |
| 15 | China criticized Kung 's appointment and accused the Vatican of interfering in its affairs . |
| 16 | ‘ Secondly , there are costs incurred by the CAA in participating in study/working groups . |
| 17 | It is collaborating with the TNO Physics & Electronics Laboratory in the Netherlands on assessing virtual reality for aerospace and military simulation , for example . |
| 18 | Contrary to Stu 's reports , I was n't deported from the Netherlands for looking like E. Cantona ! |
| 19 | In Europe , AT&T plans to add to its existing network management centres here in the UK and in the Netherlands by installing systems in key European commercial centres to provide the service for multinational customers in the UK , France , Germany , Spain , Italy , Belgium , Switzerland , the Netherlands and Sweden , and plans to hire or redeploy more than 650 technicians and sales personnel in Europe to provide customer support for the new services that are to be available in 1994 . |
| 20 | The government in turn accused the FMLN of compiling a dishonest inventory of the number of weapons it held and of having staged illegal land occupations after the signing of the peace treaty in order to boost its land tenure claims . |
| 21 | The war , and the relative success of the FMLN in hitting economic targets , has led to marked reductions in both agricultural and industrial production . |
| 22 | Kryuchkov affirmed the high priority being given by the KGB to combating black-marketeering and organized crime , but not before he had alleged that certain forces were engaged in " economic sabotage " for political ends and were in league with the criminal underworld . |
| 23 | Not just smear the KGB by making them seem callously careless in their shooting . |
| 24 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 25 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 26 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 27 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 28 | Jacopo Bassano ‘ The miraculous draught of fishes ’ , to be shown at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth , Texas , from 23 January to 24 April , when the major Jacopo Bassano exhibition transfers to the States after closing at the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa on 6 December . |
| 29 | Mr Gould — who this week quit the Shadow Cabinet and was voted off the NEC after defying the party 's Euro line — was applauded by his Blackpool audience . |
| 30 | Grateful thanks go to David Pountain of the BMS for helping with these articles . |