Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an economic climate such as that obtaining at the current time , employers are even more likely than usual to wish to alter their employees ' terms and conditions of employment , whether relating to pay , overtime requirements or other matters . |
| 2 | For all three junction types the mean value of B is lower than the 3.5 expected for unbiased responding despite the fact that overall subjects gave more ‘ No ’ responses than ‘ Yes ’ ones . |
| 3 | And the next thing I know as this banging on the door ! |
| 4 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 5 | For a blind with a shaped hemline , a further allowance should be added for facing the shaped edge ; allow a depth of between 8 and 15cm ( 3–6in ) for this depending on the depth of the edging below the lath . |
| 6 | After some searching in the entrails of the massive wall , they located an insulated , though hot , hatch — and undogged it . |
| 7 | When speeches are made after seated dinners at lengthy , formal wedding receptions , they begin after all eating at the formal meal has finished , and are preceded by the announcement from the toastmaster , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , you may now smoke . ’ |
| 8 | Toad , Ratty , Mole and Badger are making a comeback , eighty-five years after first appearing in the Wind in the Willows . |
| 9 | That might seem like a long time , but the issues have clearly been complex , and have been progressed as quickly as possible not least through vigourous prodding by the D O E , keen to see approval of a long term development strategy for Greater York and more importantly , a statutory definition of the York gre greenbelt . |
| 10 | ‘ There are different levels of alert depending on the seriousness of the fire , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 12 | Founded in 1986 by Tim Williams and Gordon Harris , the Somerset , New-Jersey-based company now has a team of eight working on the products , which respectively compress , encrypt and speed up the Unix file system . |
| 13 | He adds that ‘ anyone who has knowledge of masonic working in the higher degrees , will mark a part of one ceremony which maintains a record of this in its ritual . ’ |
| 14 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 15 | At the core of Anthony d'Offay 's exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer ( 4 June-24 July ) is an installation entitled ‘ Die Frauen der Revolution ’ , which returns to a theme already investigated by the artist in a large picture of 1986 belonging to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . |
| 16 | In the roof space , check the thickness of the insulation ( the standard is now 100mm/4in ) ; look carefully for signs of woodworm , particularly around the hatch , and for any signs of damp entering through the roof covering , especially at the eaves . |
| 17 | Was Curle really worth that or was this the City of old paying over the odds ? |
| 18 | The conversation , the ‘ dinner of two complete courses , variety of wines and the regimental band of musick playing in the square ’ all enchanted Boswell , and according to him , Johnson too , whom he reports as saying , ‘ I shall always remember this fort with gratitude . ’ |
| 19 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 20 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 21 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 22 | He shuddered a little , but whether at the memory of this vomiting by the water 's edge or of something even uglier Wexford could not tell . |
| 23 | The sea was not rough , but there was quite a heavy swell , and the noise of this breaking on the reefs and skerries to their left was daunting to the uninitiated . |
| 24 | It all comes of this traipsing about the moor . " |
| 25 | Look , in my day , before the war , we always had wingers , none of this booting up the middle and hoping for the best . |
| 26 | There were very few birdwatchers , about sixteen in the county , and it was quite different in those days — there was none of this rushing around the countryside , 2,000 people going to look at a rare bird . |
| 27 | However , undoubtedly the most extraordinary aspect of this grumbling against the tendency of the working class to assert its noisome presence in places where it clearly had no right to go , was to be found in the magnified excitements which surrounded the bicycle craze of the 1890s . |
| 28 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 29 | The Institute 's Director is Professor Martin Parry , who heads a research team of 22 working on the effects of climatic change on agriculture , energy efficiency and climatic change . |
| 30 | An hour of easy plodding over the glacier found us on a hideously loose moraine which we climbed precariously , balancing on huge boulders held loosely in a matrix of soft cement . |