Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 2 | Caffeine abolishes the apparent cooperativity of InsP 3 -induced calcium release , suggesting that it interferes with the event that couples the binding of InsP 3 to subsequent channel opening . |
| 3 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 4 | My choice of heating equipment may raise a few eyebrows , ranging as it does from the advanced to the primitive . |
| 5 | Lying as it does at the northern limit of the global thermohaline ‘ conveyor belt ’ , changes in this region may ultimately have global consequences . |
| 6 | Somewhere distant , faint , off to my right , I can hear a cuckoo calling as he moves among the coppices and hedgerows . |
| 7 | It goes without saying that everything depends on the nature of the piece of music to be scored . |
| 8 | He has found several different types of Anomalocaris ; from studying the whole lot , he thinks he can make a case for saying that it belongs with the arthropods , not out on its own . |
| 9 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 10 | Le Cheval de Troie , focusing as it does on the street confrontation between communism and fascism , is evidently a fictional distillation of these events viewed from the vantage-point of Moscow . |
| 11 | Although it is a means of asserting authority , coming as it does at the start of the shift , parade is very relaxed and , from the point of view of the ordinary constables , serves as a way of casually reorientating themselves to the demands of work . |
| 12 | The Norwegian Forest cat is another large breed , coming as it does from the coldest part of the domestic cat 's range . |
| 13 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 14 | The report rejects , however , the contention that economic growth in itself is unsustainable , insisting that it leads to the development of cleaner , more efficient technologies which cut pollution . |
| 15 | The same colour edges the top and bottom of the caudal fin , but less prominently , fading as it runs from the caudal peduncle along the margins of the fin . |
| 16 | The therapist can not win out against death , but he or she can win out for life , for a sense of the real , for the kind of growth that truly matters ; dealing as it does with the evaluation of ways to love and hate , with the meanings of human conduct , an appreciation of human nature , and the succession of the generations . |
| 17 | ‘ For sociology too , dealing as it does with the behaviour of people in society , can not be anything but applied psychology . |
| 18 | Clause 4 is the heart of the agreement , dealing as it does with the mechanism for the forecasting of requirements and the placing of orders . |
| 19 | ‘ Conveyance ’ can be proved by describing the thing concerned and in cases of difficulty by showing that it comes within the definition of a conveyance as shown as B ( 3 ) ante . |
| 20 | Buckley is unrepentant , arguing that what remains of the Scottish coal industry now has a more secure future . |
| 21 | I just have to put it on when we 're talking and it goes on the tape you see |
| 22 | Accordingly I consider that the degree of international recognition of an alleged government is a relevant factor in assessing whether it exists as the government of a state . |
| 23 | The category of free indirect speech is a more ambiguous mode , falling as it does between the categories of direct and indirect speech . |
| 24 | Even amongst the mountain of slate workings above Llyn Peris , the Rainbow Slab is unmistakeable , sitting as it does above the CEGB hydro-electric power station , flowing from bottom left to top right across an otherwise faultlessly smooth , purple-banded , blue-grey wall . |
| 25 | The Methodist chapel is also in a vulnerable spot , standing as it does at the crossroads . |
| 26 | The current form in which pop reproduces itself , the music video , is the perfect post-modern form , standing as it does at the vector of the leisure industries ' new situation . |
| 27 | Why should it not , if there are grounds for thinking that it matters to the fiction ? |
| 28 | Yes , but pretends he 's not watching and he looks over the top of his paper . |
| 29 | The European Court 's teleological approach can be seen once again in the passage cited from that judgment , referring as it does to the ‘ purpose ’ and the ‘ result pursued by ’ the directive . |
| 30 | Dinosaur size is a vitally important subject , bearing as it does on the controversy concerning metabolism and the generation and conduction of heat , and hence on the susceptibility or otherwise to changes in climate . |