Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish : The EC sought some access to EFTA country territorial waters , Spain having originally proposed a 90,000 tonne annual cod catch quota . |
| 2 | As has already been stated , infrastructure spending previously constituted a large percentage of EC aid to member states . |
| 3 | But now , with the Government having heavily modified the MMC's recommendations so brewers have to drop the tie from only half of the outlets they own over a 2,000-pub limit , Whitbread has decided to stick with brewing . |
| 4 | The latter had just changed his name to Freygood and was preparing to move to Montreal having recently married a young Jewish girl called Ruby . |
| 5 | In June , with eleven months still to go , he was told by his doctor that his state of nervous exhaustion was such that if he did not immediately take a week 's rest at Chequers ( which with Parliament sitting inevitably involved a public announcement ) he would not survive without collapse until the end of July . |
| 6 | Two weeks ago , I revisited Zagreb having previously led a parliamentary delegation there a year ago . |
| 7 | I asked quietly , my stomach having suddenly acquired a large ice cube . |
| 8 | The engine appears to be in good order having recently had an upper cylinder overhaul and new valves and has a very modest oil consumption . |
| 9 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |