Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a small deficiency can occur through struggling to manage on a low income , through a difficulty in swallowing or chewing food , not bothering to plan a nourishing diet , or difficulty in shopping because of a disability . |
| 2 | A number of prominent Kuwait opposition figures were reportedly arrested by the Iraqi forces after refusing to participate in the new government . |
| 3 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 4 | All climbing up the stairs in one mad rush trying to get out of the hell-pit of the London Underground tunnels , after having escaped from the claustrophobic strangulating suffocating hold of the London Underground Tubes , marginally cleaner but less picturesque than those of New York . |
| 5 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |
| 6 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 7 | A feeling began to emerge that the advantages of the new approach might be long- rather than short-term , but the dichotomy between wanting to work in the new way because of its potential advantages and ‘ Are we ever going to get the syllabus done ? ’ continued to be problematic . |
| 8 | Trusts , however , offered the potential for developing nodding into a legal act . |
| 9 | Breasts sliced off — ’ he held out a glistening spoonful ; Kitty blenched — ‘ for refusing to submit to the lustful wishes of one Quintian . |
| 10 | A ‘ credit ’ he may have been , but Owens was expelled from the American Athletics Union for refusing to compete in a Swedish tour and was eventually reduced to freak show racing against horses and motorcycles . |
| 11 | As we saw in chapter 12 , there is another quite different intellectual reason for wanting to control for a third factor when assessing the relationship between two variables . |
| 12 | The degree of supercoiling imposed on the viral genome in vivo is not known , but our experiments show that a moderate superhelical density can exert an stabilizing effect on the open complexes formed at the P A2b and P A3 promoters , which should be important in facilitating the transition into elongation complexes . |
| 13 | Already the trade showed signs of becoming restricted to the immediate neighbourhood of Reading , whose clothiers seem to have controlled most of the output of Berkshire . |
| 14 | Fulmars planed below , stubby necked , stiff-winged : a short burst of flapping followed by a long glide . |
| 15 | From about AD500 the Christian Church introduced a practice of dating according to the nearest religious festival . |
| 16 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 17 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 18 | Carefully Sally moved against it and felt a sort of yearning begin in the sensitised area between her thighs . |
| 19 | It would also , if adopted , have the practical merit of getting rid of a procedural minefield . |
| 20 | generally erm and if we 're talking about the strategy we 've got ta sort of er sort out for ourselves whether we think the strategy of getting rid of the local tyrants and the evil gentry is the wa right way to actually achieve that the aims of getting rid of warlords . |
| 21 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |
| 22 | However , it does have the merit of beginning to touch upon the multiple sources of these meanings : what I think ‘ popular ’ you may not . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman does not have to worry about the normal courtesy of staying to listen to the next speaker . |
| 24 | To Western eyes this method seemed restricted and undemocratic , but to the Soviets it was considered an orderly method of proceeding compared to the apparent chaos of Western politics . |
| 25 | However , if , as applies to many women , despite having worked for a good number of years you have made insufficient contributions to qualify for a full pension , you should contact your local Social Security office , quoting your pension number and national insurance number . |
| 26 | These actions can all be part of letting go of a painful stage of life , and will help the children and family remember happy times which may otherwise be forgotten . |
| 27 | Handling the whole process of letting go in a wise and loving way is probably the most important factor in negotiating the teenage years . |
| 28 | He also holds the unique record of having appeared in every one of the club 's first 22 FA Cup ties . |
| 29 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 30 | Although the committee was expected primarily to identify people suspected of having collaborated with the Iraqi army , opposition sources quoted in the Guardian of Feb. 13 expressed the fear that such a committee might be used against dissidents , adding that , if this were so , such a body " would be very dangerous if there were no parliament " . |