Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 2 | Shopping at your local garden centre or leafing through the pages of catalogues can be a good place to start , whether you are buying for people who prefer to read about the possibilities of beautiful plantings or for those who actually get out there and make it happen in their own gardens . |
| 3 | Section 7–4 examines the implications of the taxation of intermediate goods , allowing for the interdependence of industries ( via the input-output table ) , and describes a simple hierarchical model of production . |
| 4 | Extensive experience with decriminalisation in Holland shows that not only is there no accompanying surge in consumption — allowing for the inrush of addicts from more restrictive countries — but related crime falls when drugs are legalised . |
| 5 | For example , for Article 4 of the proposed directive to be implemented , Britain would have to introduce legislation allowing for the searching of premises to hold and seize items which another country says there are ‘ reasonable grounds for believing ’ have ‘ been unlawfully removed from its territory ’ . |
| 6 | By allowing for the distribution of results in random diversification , reductions in the overall risk of a randomly selected portfolio of shares may continue until the number of constituent securities reaches about thirty . |
| 7 | In October 1981 be floated the company on the Stock Exchange and four months later be merged Habitat with Mothercare , the world 's largest chain of stores catering for the needs of mothers and babies , and became chairman of the Habitat Mothercare Group plc . |
| 8 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 9 | In this task , the production of materials catering for the needs of pupils of all abilities will be seen as a priority . |
| 10 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 11 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 12 | With a last desperate heave the steel door slammed shut , slicing off the row of fingers like falling skittles . |
| 13 | A CATHOLIC Bishop spoke today of ‘ a circular chainsaw of hatred ’ tearing through the lives of families in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | However , the small number of implied covenants have a part to play in contributing towards the comfort of tenants and some have attracted the attention of Parliament . |
| 15 | Her voice was quivering beneath the pressure of tears . |
| 16 | Like Dexter , she had had enough of grappling with the bundles of facts she had accumulated , facts that did not slot together to form a coherent pattern ; but dissolved and reformed into new patterns every time she touched them . |
| 17 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 18 | Wilmot also faces a separate trial at Southport on November 19 accused of driving under the influence of drugs . |
| 19 | Suddenly the earth was drumming and quivering with the beat of hooves , coming at a fast gallop along the grassy verges of the Roman road from Shrewsbury . |
| 20 | In the days since her visit to me , her mind had become so used to the idea of walking in the vicinity of birds that it had seemed quite a natural thing to do . |
| 21 | The urge to empathise is strong , but the projection is often rewarded by understanding in the case of animals . |
| 22 | The latter are the main pigments occurring in the eye of insects from many orders . |
| 23 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 24 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
| 25 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 26 | All her energies were devoted to appearing in the eyes of others as nonchalant . |
| 27 | Paradox 4 does n't ignore what 's been happening in the world of Windows , either . |
| 28 | It might seem odd that this kind of thing is happening in the age of Aids , but none of the home porn stars I interviewed seemed very concerned . |
| 29 | This is particularly paradoxical and revealing in the case of notions . |
| 30 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |