Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 2 | After wading through the comprehensive 40 page manual you may have some idea of what to do as , yet again , it 's simulation time ! |
| 3 | I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) . |
| 4 | By folding the chute concertina fashion , it can be packed relatively tightly under the pack flaps in the order of bottom , sides , then top , before the release pin is secured through the cord loop , after passing through the other three flap eyelets . |
| 5 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 6 | Jobs : The rate at which smaller firms are shedding jobs has increased , after declining in the last five surveys , with a balance of 20pc more manufacturers reporting a fall than an increase . |
| 7 | They also said that maybe Strandli will push Wallace for the first team place after scoring in the last 2 reserve matches . |
| 8 | Paul , 23 , of nearby Crawley , was tipped for stardom after finishing in the top 30 at the Austrian Open . |
| 9 | After participating in the abortive 1848 uprisings in Germany Marx lived his life in exile in England . |
| 10 | The firm has also introduced a new front linkage with lift capacities of 3500kg ( 7715lb ) for fitting to the latest 3670 and 3690 tractors as well as the 3680 . |
| 11 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 12 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 13 | Already , he knew that his chances of living through the next four or five weeks had been severely curtailed . |
| 14 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 15 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 16 | He was looking forward to Friday 's game with Wigan and the heady possibility of moving into the top three of Division Two . |
| 17 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 18 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 19 | Annfield found their hopes of finishing in the top four being dimmed when they went down at home Boldon CA . |
| 20 | At the end of May 1989 a new supreme representative body , the 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies , held its inaugural session after being elected in three rounds of voting during the previous two months . |
| 21 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 22 | COUNTLESS hours of studying over the past six years have paid off for a Barlaston engineering technician — in the form of an Open University degree . |
| 23 | Is the Minister aware that it is not true that there have been no notifications of dumping in the past six months ? |
| 24 | Mother-of-four Theresa de Mogollon , Glen Road newsagent Michael Edwards and Falls Road hairdresser Sean Hughes have all fallen victim to UFF gunmen in an orgy of killing in the past two weeks . |
| 25 | Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 27 | In Chapters 2 to 10 we take the various constructions in which English adjectives actually appear , and consider the grammatical and interpretative consequences of the intensional patterns which are expressed by those constructions , before returning in the final three chapters to more general issues of syntax . |
| 28 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 29 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 30 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |