Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [v-ing] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death squads identified in a Jan. 12 article in Vrye Weekblad were responsible amongst other things for the Paris killing in March 1988 of ANC representative Dulcie September [ see p. 36073 ] . |
| 2 | In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 . |
| 3 | Between them , Japanese semiconductor firms will produce 120m of the new 4-megabit chips for the year ending in March . |
| 4 | The profits of British Airways plunged for the year ending in March . |
| 5 | Since the hon. Gentleman mentioned YT in particular , I may say that we are investing £842 million in YT in 1991-92 and the figure for the year starting in April is £851 million . |
| 6 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 7 | Using the estimates for the BP options , the hedge ratios work out as follows : therefore , for the options expiring in October we should write 1.1886 option contracts per 1000 shares held and for the options maturing in April we should write 1.9279 contracts per 1000 share held . |
| 8 | Using the estimates for the BP options , the hedge ratios work out as follows : therefore , for the options expiring in October we should write 1.1886 option contracts per 1000 shares held and for the options maturing in April we should write 1.9279 contracts per 1000 share held . |
| 9 | Nor had he to wait long there for the train running in connection with the sailing of the ‘ Iona ’ steamship from Greenock . |
| 10 | As a substitute Brian Whitaker , the second most experienced journalist continuously involved with NoS , was drafted to write a journalist 's case for the paper remaining in London . |
| 11 | It seemed scarcely conceivable that the leadership had not made sufficient provision for the troops wintering in Russia . |
| 12 | During the afternoon drinking in Barcelona , I ask him to tell me a joke . |
| 13 | He also strove staunchly to strengthen relations between the Poles living in Poland and those scattered abroad in the 13-million-strong Polish diaspora — links which had been almost destroyed during the Cold War period by Communist authorities , oblivious to their potential value to both sides . |
| 14 | He knew about the light shining in darkness , and had come , for reasons completely different from Alexander 's desire for exactness , specificity , to mistrust figurative language . |
| 15 | Most of my workmates are very happy but it 's a pity about the plant closing in Galway . ’ |
| 16 | But Coral 's offers of 6-4 about the colt winning in Kentucky ; 5-1 about his tasting success at Epsom , and 6-1 the double will be revised dramatically should Arazi not cruise home in today 's one-mile Prix Omnium II . |
| 17 | Rumours at H.Q about the Brigade advancing in pursuit of the German forces , who have now , it appears , pulled back towards the Seine taking all their equipment with them . |
| 18 | Dr Bruce Styne — originally from California but who came to live in Castlerock six years ago after a spell working in London — said : ‘ The people love this place . |
| 19 | One possible link between the Wakesfield and Tyneside incidents stems from the Gateshead gas depot explosion late on Tuesday night , a year and a day after an IRA killing in Yorkshire . |
| 20 | The orchards yielded plums , pears and apples ; bees occupying the hives set amongst the trees produced honey with the extra aid of the herbs flowering in beds along the walls ; and above all careful gardening provided a wealth of vegetables unknown to the herb growers of previous centuries . |
| 21 | We 've got two letters from erm , the two adjacent neighbours , erm , particularly concerned with lack of privacy , car park next to the wall of the properties resulting in noise pollution and potential danger of property from thieves . |
| 22 | Neill and Nicholls L.JJ. , both of whom had been members of the court sitting in Ashtiani v. |
| 23 | Most of the times living in Soweto , I have police coming to pay me a visit , which they usually call ’ routine ’ checks . |
| 24 | An adaptation is a modification of the genome resulting in structures , functions or behaviour patterns that increase the probability of an organism surviving and reproducing in a particular environment . |
| 25 | Perhaps they thought of the militia fighting in Kampala ; perhaps they recognized that an awkward and in any case grandiose assumption had been pinpointed and pricked . |
| 26 | When we move towards statements of the kind occurring in science , the theoretical presuppositions become less commonplace and more obvious . |
| 27 | Michael Maloney 's appealing , rather elfin Hal finds in Falstaff at least some of the humanity lacking in Patrick Glover 's Victorian father of a king . |
| 28 | Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet . |
| 29 | I also become exasperated when I see some of the deals appearing in supermarkets and tacky remainder shops , with low levels of staff and service and complete inability or disinclination ever to pay their bills . |
| 30 | Then they lunched , visited the extremely hard-working Swiss masseurs , and spent the remainder of the day resting in preparation for the rigours of the following morning . |