Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 2 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 3 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 4 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 5 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 6 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 7 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 8 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 9 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 11 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 12 | Others , although sympathetic , were hard put to explain his lack of caution in pursuing hopeless cases through the courts and providing the Federation with such ample material with which to plot his downfall . |
| 13 | In section 6.1 , we referred to the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s and we pointed out that one explanation for this involves bringing inflationary expectations into the argument . |
| 14 | Naming specific experts in the expert clause may allow an awkward party to create insoluble deadlock : see 10.3.3 . |
| 15 | The government claimed that UNITA was stalling whilst awaiting United States congressional discussions on military aid budgets , while , for its part , UNITA alleged that the government was preparing an all-out military strike against its forces along the Angola-Namibia border , using Namibian airstrips with the co-operation of the Namibian government . |
| 16 | Consequently in 1835 the Geological Survey of Great Britain was established by the government for the purpose of producing geological maps of the country to be based on the Ordnance Survey maps as they became available . |
| 17 | It would work by using genetically-engineered parts of the HIV virus to inject healthy people . |
| 18 | There has therefore to be an agency of repression , and a means of maintaining repressed experiences in the unconscious state . |
| 19 | The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population . |
| 20 | The " Dresden manifesto " , approved unanimously at the end of the conference , ( i ) stressed the importance of forging genuine unity between the two parts of the country ; and ( ii ) called for an end to the constitutional ban on using German troops outside the NATO arena and for their use in UN peacekeeping forces or in a future European force . |
| 21 | Using five-minute returns for the period from 1 to 15 October 1987 , they concluded that the negative basis after 11 a.m. on Monday 19 October was primarily due to stale prices , particularly physical delays in the processing of spot transactions , and not to illiquidity . |
| 22 | For the Euro-sceptics , he is Neville Chamberlain , or , worse , the lacklustre , appeasing British apparatchiks of the 1930s . |
| 23 | The flame from its mouth passed over the western lands like a comet and woke millennial longings in the hearts of Roman legionaries , who eked out their twenty years of cold service dreaming of victories and of eating fresh figs under the olive trees of home . |
| 24 | Tony Smith claims that we apply a double standard to orthodox and alternative medicine , using published studies in the medical literature to denounce the former while relying largely on anecdotal evidence to promote the latter . |
| 25 | A day earlier the Falklands Islands Legislative Council had passed a long-awaited bill allowing licensed surveys of the area , prompting Argentina 's President Carlos Menem to approve a bill in Congress rejecting British sovereignty and setting out Argentina 's right to all mineral deposits within 200 nautical miles of the islands . |
| 26 | You have the sense that , from now on , you 'll be travelling on a different line , you 'll be seeing different views through the window . |
| 27 | On May 29 Gabonese troops , using extended powers under the state of emergency , succeeded in regaining control of Port Gentil . |
| 28 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 29 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Conditional probabilities of leaving the spell ( hazard ) are estimated in an unrestricted manner , allowing different individuals in the sample to have different pattern of hazard . |