Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the subscribers taking part in the trials said : ‘ I would n't have had the problems I had with malicious calls a few years ago if I 'd had Caller Display then . ’ |
| 2 | Lord Oliver spoke of the Government taking ‘ a terrible and unjustifiable risk ’ and of the papers containing much that was ‘ quite unacceptable ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We recognized that they were a new club , that they had obtained a good holding in a Rugby area and that the club had bright prospects , but our case was clear — Leeds were defiant , and could be defiant through one cause — fear of the papers giving away certain secrets . ’ |
| 4 | And , er , the upshot of all that was , I got a phone call , what , three weeks ago , from one of the papers saying , we 'd like to come and take your picture Mr cos we 're doing this article about on on er , on care services , so I said , okay , so he came and took a picture . |
| 5 | If you compare a fourteen hundred new settlement , three thousand people with the new settlements around York , as you 've seen in our papers , and some of the papers circulating , it 's very similar in size to many of the expanded villages around York , which are all , virtually without exception , commuter settlements for the urban area , so the inevitable consequence of that size of new settlement , in my opinion , be it fourteen hundred , be it two thousand five hundred dwellings , it will be primarily a large housing estate set in the open countryside . |
| 6 | The text and diagrams are clear and readable and the value of the text is greatly enhanced by about 80 per cent of the papers having an average of over eight references . |
| 7 | We must remember , even so , that this was the golden age 's own assessment of its own golden youth , and the repeated alarms about pistol gangs gives a further indication of the depth of the fears surrounding working-class youth at this time . |
| 8 | Local Government Minister , David Hunt , met Tory Councillors in the trouble-torn West Oxfordshire constituency today in an attempt to some of the fears surrounding the Poll Tax . |
| 9 | The ANLT system uses a set of rules to segment the string into possible morphemes and then determines the validity of the segmentations using a word grammar . |
| 10 | The orchards yielded plums , pears and apples ; bees occupying the hives set amongst the trees produced honey with the extra aid of the herbs flowering in beds along the walls ; and above all careful gardening provided a wealth of vegetables unknown to the herb growers of previous centuries . |
| 11 | It was the same banner that flew over the columns of marching men converging on the Women ‘ s Battalion guarding the Provisional Government in St Petersburg … the same banner that was raised in front of the crowds surging into George Square in Glasgow . |
| 12 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 13 | The knife gripped between his teeth slightly distorted Rev. Levitt 's articulation but did not inhibit his chatter , which rose above the shrieks of the fowls beating their wings in panic against the coop and the even more frenzied squawking of the hen imprisoned in his hands . |
| 14 | The council work is one of the projects going ahead as part of Middlesbrough new title of BT Environment City . |
| 15 | The more highly convicted and at-risk profile of the AEC sample was also reflected by the fact that whereas nationally as many as 80 per cent of the persons commencing probation in 1988 had no additional requirements made to their probation orders , only six per cent of the probationers undertaking the AEC received this traditional type of probation order from the courts . |
| 16 | Answer guide : A sole proprietorship has one owner whereas a partner has at least two , partners are jointly and severally liable for the debts of the partnership , there needs to be separate accounts kept of the transactions relating to each partner , agreements need to be reached regarding profit shares etc . |
| 17 | It has been a common practice since ancient times to date official documents by the year of the rulers issuing them , or from within whose jurisdiction they emanated . |
| 18 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 19 | The headship of the amalgamated department will be assigned by the Hebdomadal Council from time to time for specified periods of not less than five years to one of the persons holding an established academic post in the department , normally with the title of professor or reader . |
| 20 | " Where I , or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them ( taken together ) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety , each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot . " |
| 21 | " Where three or more persons who are present together , use or threaten unlawful violence and the conduct of them ( taken together ) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety , each of the persons using or threatening violence is guilty of violent disorder . " |
| 22 | Where the grounds upon which it is intended to impose conditions are the intimidatory purposes of the persons organising , the chief constable is entitled to take into account the previous conduct of the organisers , including relevant criminal convictions if the organisers have any . |
| 23 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 24 | Service must be effected on one of the persons acting or deemed to be acting as solicitor for the department . |
| 25 | This can be achieved by ensuring that we fall within the exemption contained in Section 60(1) of the Companies Act , which states that an offer or invitation is not to be treated as made to the public ‘ if it can properly be regarded , in all the circumstances , as not being calculated to result , directly or indirectly , in the shares or debentures becoming available for subscription or purchase by persons other than those receiving the offer or invitation , or otherwise as being a domestic concern of the persons receiving and making it ’ . |
| 26 | Indeed it is necessary after their names to state the electoral number including the electoral letter of each of the persons signing the paper . |
| 27 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 28 | The more highly convicted and at-risk profile of the AEC sample was also reflected by the fact that whereas nationally as many as 80 per cent of the persons commencing probation in 1988 had no additional requirements made to their probation orders , only six per cent of the probationers undertaking the AEC received this traditional type of probation order from the courts . |
| 29 | The objective of the persons doing the convincing is to ‘ sell ’ their ideas to others . |
| 30 | Give the names of the persons making the valuation or particulars of their qualifications , together with the bases of valuation . |