Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was widespread media criticism of the government for capitulating to the drug traffickers , but Gaviria denied that he had entered into negotiations or made any prior deal with Escobar as part of a policy to defuse the costly and violent " drug war " gripping the country . |
| 2 | They have a talent for using as a lever planks or anything else that comes to hand . |
| 3 | Scott also suggested that in addition to carrying out some exercise or activity focused around one of the essential concepts , pupils should be given the opportunity for reflecting on the thinking processes they have gone through . |
| 4 | just off hanging over the welly boots when somebody puts their feet in the welly boots they get a bit of shock ! |
| 5 | The hope is that these peptides might compete with the virus proteins for binding to the receptor molecules . |
| 6 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other wacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 7 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other whacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 8 | The procedure for applying for the prerogative remedies of certiorari , prohibition and mandamus is contained in Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ( RSC ) , some provisions of which have been re-enacted in statutory form in section 31 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 9 | Again in 1948 , after struggling through the war years , for which services they were grossly undercompensated , these 4 grouped companies , virtually bankrupt , were nationalised , and the less profitable lines , often many of them rural , were closed and the tracks lifted . |
| 10 | After qualifying for the East semi-finals in impressive style , Essex beat Hertfordshire 3–1 and trounced Cambridgeshire 5–1 in the final , after taking a 2–0 lead at half-time . |
| 11 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts was just seven years old and five weeks into his first term at Barnstaple boarding school , Devon , when he received ‘ a slippering ’ for notching up five ‘ demerit ’ marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 12 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 13 | In May , after receiving from the Emperor introductions to the various states in Italy , Leopold wrote to Hagenauer |
| 14 | After hibernating through the winter months , a male sand lizard wakes up and sheds his old brown skin for a new green one which the duller female finds attractive . |
| 15 | One has elongated jaws for picking between the coral stems , another may specialise in cropping a particular kind of small crustacean . |
| 16 | RICHARD Branson 's Virgin Atlantic Airways will today take another step towards competing with the aviation giants by opening a new lounge at Heathrow Airport . |
| 17 | The mice showed symptoms of poisoning by the Alexandrium toxins produced by phytoplankton , but comparisons with known Alexandrium toxins proved negative . |
| 18 | Yet this was a period when the English Civil War was at its height ; from the coins themselves we would never have suspected that such a large proportion of minting in the war years of 1639–47 was the result of a commercial agreement between the two countries and not just of the high levels of expenditure caused by the war . |
| 19 | Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars . |
| 20 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 21 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 22 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 23 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |
| 24 | Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum , make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin 's strip-down . |
| 25 | Charlton 's seven-year love affair with the Irish shows no signs of heading for the divorce courts . |
| 26 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 27 | I also suspect that all the major players will shortly move to 400dpi as their base resolution , it 's probably only a question of waiting for the engine manufacturers to get production rolling for the new CCITT Group IV facsimile standard and then taking the excess . |
| 28 | In a tract written in defence of the petitioners , Lord Somers , the Junto chief , bitterly inveighed against the House of Commons , accusing it of encroaching upon the executive powers of the Crown by seeking to impose punishments without the King 's authority . |
| 29 | I can honestly say that the most painful bit of going to the blood donors is the next day when you come to rip the sticky plaster off your arm ( even more so if you 've got as much hair as Arthur Upton ! ) so , if you 've never been — give it a go . |
| 30 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |