Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 2 | The use of strategies varied according to the occupational category : at the professional and managerial level , 82 per cent of employers used strategy 2 , and at the technician level it was used by 74 per cent . |
| 3 | The new picture is then assessed and another remedy given starting at the lowest degrees of dynamization ( LM 1 ) regardless of what potency level the previous remedy had reached . |
| 4 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 5 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 6 | Now it appears England 's attempt to win backing from the nine countries with Test status by offering a higher bid of £300,000 may also be flawed . |
| 7 | One entire wall was filled by The Harbour ( present whereabouts unknown ) , a painting eleven feet in width , the scene offset by a large seated figure shown drawing in the left foreground . |
| 8 | Royalties vary depending on the perceived value of the artist to the record company . |
| 9 | As far as is known , AIDS began fulminating in the gay communities of New York City and San Francisco in the late 1970s . |
| 10 | An even bigger obstacle to the successful introduction of legislative guide-lines in this country might be the existence of a number of different tariff ranges according to the different levels of court , to which we referred earlier . |
| 11 | ‘ If the number of candidates keeps rising at the present rate ’ , he said , ‘ then by the year 2010 the entire population of the world will have a SCOTVEC National Certificate ! ’ |
| 12 | The figure of one in four crimes being reported refers to crime in general , and this ratio of recorded to unrecorded crime varies according to the particular crime . |
| 13 | British missionaries started arriving in the early 1800s and convinced Fijians that they should wear clothes . |
| 14 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 15 | Hari remembered standing in the darkened street , watching the parade of carriages driving along Mumbles Road and into Gloucester Place . |
| 16 | She foretold the invasion and defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 ; and Samuel Pepys ' Diary grimly records that Mother Shipton gave forewarning of the Great Fire of London in 1666 . |
| 17 | Bringing that thought into consciousness means going through the classical stages of acknowledging the anger and the pain before finding acceptance . |
| 18 | The Party chairman would decide later that day on what course of action to take pertaining to the Young Conservatives : the morning 's debate would continue as planned . |
| 19 | Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate . |
| 20 | The aim of the ‘ new ’ hospital was in part to lessen overcrowding in the other twenty mental hospitals of the region , from which referrals would be taken , and in part to develop specialist methods of treatment for those who did not get better under ordinary therapeutic regimes . |
| 21 | In a White Paper Defence Secretary Tom King says spending over the next 3 years will rise by only 1.2% and after that it could fall . |
| 22 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 23 | In the morning a little aeroplane came buzzing across the blue window-pane of sky and alighted on the sugary beach . |
| 24 | But for some , however much we wish it to be otherwise , grounds for divorce seem pressing in the desperate unhappiness and pain either or both partners appear to be experiencing . |
| 25 | Speaker B keeps returning to the same point , his first statement , dealing with it in a variety of ways , and we get three different and slightly conflicting evaluations of his action in discussing sex openly with his pupils ( it 's daring , it 's unsystematic , it 's something anyway ) . |
| 26 | The stunning view of Dumyat makes a splendid backdrop to the garden , reminding us of the times Sir Monty spent hillwalking on the many occasions he visited Stirling . |
| 27 | ‘ From the first traces of their existence to this day , no example can be found of an interposition by the courts of Westminster Hall proceeding according to the general law of the land ; but the judges have acted as in a domestic forum . |
| 28 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 29 | Mrs Rand , an avid Scrabble player , crossword fan and reader , lived alone in Stockton until just before her 100th birthday when a fall meant moving into the residential village . |
| 30 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |