Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're having a whole day next term to sort out testing for the eleven year olds . |
| 2 | The ultimate criterion for the presence of pollution in law , in contrast with other more familiar forms of offence , is a test carried out according to the supposedly ‘ objective ’ precepts of natural scientific ( predominantly chemical ) analysis . |
| 3 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |
| 4 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 5 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 6 | In a pointed reference to criticism of his refusal to rule out voting with the Government in the future , he said : ‘ Jim of all people should know that there are occasions when Labour as well as the Tories can act against the Scottish interest and therefore must be opposed . ’ |
| 7 | For them , it must be almost a relief to walk around listening to the cocks crowing or the cows mooing — it must help to keep them sane . |
| 8 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 9 | All seven expect unemployment to go on rising throughout the year . |
| 10 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 11 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 12 | Whereas the speaker is under considerable pressure to keep on talking during the period allotted to him , the writer is characteristically under no such pressure . |
| 13 | Plagues by troubles with management , record companies and poor audience turn-outs — not to mention the agony of seeing their ‘ Breathing Fear ’ 45 being weighted out of the Top 75 by Gallup — band talk during the summer revolved around emigrating to the States and leaving ‘ them ’ all behind . |
| 14 | The alternative is for Greeks to watch their economic hopes fade , and listen to the world go on chuckling about the story of the Golden Unfleeced . |
| 15 | A few minutes later Wayne McDowell , he played the ball out to brother Gary again , whose hard low cross was scrambled clear by the Almondsbury defence to back to Wayne McDowell whose lob shot ended up resting in the top of the netting . |
| 16 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 17 | An in-depth study of parental opinions about values in schooling found parents have strong opinions , but what was striking was the lack of willingness to become more involved in how the school goes about dealing with the issue . |
| 18 | Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves . |
| 19 | However , from the 1990 White Paper ( Cm 1021 , 1990 ) the Treasury gave up including in the total of planned public expenditure that part of local authority expenditure which is locally financed through local taxes and charges . |