Example sentences of "the [adj] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cramped and cold in his hide , he listened as the sounds of the day fell from him into silence one by one , until he could hear the measured pacing of the watch on the walk between the gate-towers . |
| 2 | But I 'm very annoyed with er , the incessant canting about the John Major government . |
| 3 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 4 | Tallis went outside quickly , alert for the boy , her own heart racing in response to the awful wailing from the woods . |
| 5 | The villus height depends upon two factors ; firstly on cellular multiplication and differentiation from the crypts ; and secondly on the migration of mature cells along the villus axis , accompanied by the cellular shedding from the apex . |
| 6 | Is it a major historical turning-point , implying the complete re-fashioning of the economy , of production and of the geography of production ? |
| 7 | I 'd opened all the windows in the flat , drenching the atmosphere in car fumes and the uproar of the unemployed arguing in the street . |
| 8 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 9 | To meet the immediate problems , the vital priorities were the proper progressing of the manufacture of designs for nearly 6000MW of plant planned or under construction by the former undertakings , and the acceleration of work in progress on sites . |
| 10 | The one in particular I 'm referring to you will see we 'd all see the Son of Man , they they 'd recognised that reference to himself Son of Man , they 'd recognised that because that comes out of the Old Testament Book of Daniel does n't it , the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty coming with the clouds of heaven . |
| 11 | The bulk of the issue is devoted to an acrimonious article full of names and packdrill , a furious rebuttal from the accused , a reply from the accusers , and , tucked away at the back , a letter from the accused replying to the reply . |
| 12 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 13 | Detailed studies of the distribution of animals and plants were made throughout the nineteenth century , often employing amateurs to do the actual surveying under the leadership of a few professionals . |
| 14 | The first clusters according to numeric properties , and the second according to the names of the clusters invented during the first part . |
| 15 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 16 | I did n't think you had to ha have the aerial coming from the for the hole in the wall . |
| 17 | Whereas in the early church believers were discipled through the teaching and corporate life of the Christian community , the third and fourth centuries saw many of the devout withdrawing to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts to pray and give themselves to spiritual warfare . |
| 18 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 19 | In 1870 the ninety serving in the French foreign ministry , for example , were dwarfed by the 1,500 employed in the ministry of finance , the largest of all French central government departments . |
| 20 | We have to give thanks for the magnificent giving to the Camphill Project . |
| 21 | Power marked the apostolic preaching in the Holy Spirit at Thessalonica , and joy marked its reception by the new believers ( 1 Thess. 1:5f ) . |
| 22 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 23 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 24 | And erm my father and Michael had got to know the maids in in the Plas but Michael had grabbed the the the the good looking of the parlour maid and my father had to make do with the cook . |
| 25 | The promised re-routing on the Bromsgrove Line means that passengers make the connection at Worcester Shrub Hill . |
| 26 | As well as these , there are the spiracular muscles and the epipleural muscles , the latter inserting on the subalare and basalare . |
| 27 | Paisley and Napier were the examples chosen , the latter pointing to the ‘ wholehearted acceptance by industry of CNAA degrees ’ , and emphasizing the difficulty of gaining course approvals . |
| 28 | Wolfram 's ( 1980 ) account of variable constraints on prefixing a- to the present continuous form of the verb in Appalachian English ( e.g. ‘ He got sick a'workin' so hard ’ ) is also a mixture of quantitative and non-quantitative analysis , the latter focusing on the now familiar problems of establishing relevant environments and possible semantic distinctions encoded in a -prefixing . |
| 29 | During the period of industrial calm which followed 1906 , SRs and Social Democrats alike were reduced to a rump , party membership of the latter falling from the probably inflated figure of 150,000 to some 10,000 . |
| 30 | There have to be big spending cuts and bigger interest rate cuts , the latter compensating for the former . |