Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began by learning a bit of the trade and spent a summer up at Glenfiddich helping to put in a new storehouse . |
| 2 | This season has a side struggling to stay in the second divison . |
| 3 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 4 | Overall , however , our studies showed schools tending to cluster towards the following main types : |
| 5 | Morris : Tell me ; when is the WEA going to die as a voluntary body ? |
| 6 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |
| 7 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 8 | Soft light beginning to shimmer on the still water . |
| 9 | that a culturally sensitive arts education risks failing to exploit to the full its potential to culturally enrich the lives of its pupils by being , largely , ‘ gender blind ’ ; |
| 10 | Lazarene boys came to throw kisses at the trucks as they left , Justinette and Elice trying to squeeze through the open windows , catcalling back . |
| 11 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 12 | So as less salty water comes into contact with more salty water , the two water masses shift ( the fresher mass tending to float on the saltier mass ) . |
| 13 | 1983 ) looked at 1255 step-families applying to adopt from the step-family population of 6150 in 1980 , and identified a major problem of variable treatment by courts of step-families seeking adoption . |
| 14 | COMPANIES wanting to break into the vast Russian consumer market have been told to cater for five distinct groups with very different tastes : Kuptsi , Cossacks , Students , Businessmen and Russian Souls . |
| 15 | Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] . |
| 16 | What are our enlightened descendants going to do about the fourth element , Earth ? |
| 17 | We also a member of the Accountants ' Business Network ( ABN ) which exists to circulate details of companies for sale and companies wishing to buy among the major accountancy firms . |
| 18 | The country remained in a state of turmoil , with simmering ethnic , religious and personal rivalries threatening to erupt into a fresh war . |
| 19 | Corbett nodded and they staggered on , bodies soaked in sweat , eyes blinded with panic , legs and feet threatening to turn into the heaviest lead . |
| 20 | The remainder of the day had passed almost enjoyably , with Jake and Shiona and little Kirsty appearing to behave like a happy little family . |
| 21 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 22 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 23 | I stayed with Robert Fraser for some years and it all ended with Robert going to jail on the famous drug bust with the Rolling Stones . |
| 24 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 25 | Banks wishing to apply for an offshore banking licence were required to provide capital of US$1,600,000 plus an annual fee of $20,000 . |
| 26 | In the medium and long term , the major sources of monetary growth are banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio and government borrowing . |
| 27 | Banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio could be prevented by the authorities imposing statutory reserve requirements on banks . |
| 28 | It illustrates the fundamental dichotomy of a headstrong band trying to work with a major label . |
| 29 | The narrator is a figure in transit trying to live in a perceptual present which avoids fixed relations . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes … yes , it 's been a long day , ’ she admitted , her cheeks flushing and her heart beginning to beat in a crazy rhythm as he held her tightly against his hard , tall figure for a moment . |