Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 3 | She felt delightfully relaxed and slightly unreal , and her mouth seemed incapable of shaping anything but a broad smile . |
| 4 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 5 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 6 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 7 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 8 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 9 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 10 | ( b ) Determinacy I turn now to another basic logical condition of meaningfulness of describing something as an ontological existent . |
| 11 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 12 | What hope is there of saying anything about a whole work , if each small sentence deserves to be scrutinized in this way ? " |
| 13 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 14 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
| 15 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 16 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 17 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 18 | Lynda always accepted the importance of having someone with a strong concept controlling the design outflow and never found Laura 's unspoken guidelines stultifying . |
| 19 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 20 | The chances of finding one with a positive clinical response rate of 20% or more is less than 1 in 40 000 . |
| 21 | The latter offer yet another way of affecting the output power of the S120 ; the amount of variation available means that the amp is capable of offering anything from a humble 8 watts per channel to a fairly mighty 60 watts per side . |
| 22 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 23 | Each has systematic ways of dealing with apparently awkward cases and there is no hope of specifying neutral conditions for testing one against the other and thus deciding between them . |
| 24 | ‘ You mean you 're grateful to her for sending someone with an ulterior motive ? ’ |
| 25 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 26 | They can get so much more out of it if you encourage them to approach it in the way a real production would be approached — as an exercise in communicating something to a specific audience . |
| 27 | What 's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you 're suffering hardship now ? |
| 28 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 29 | If you are to get the maximum enjoyment from growing roses , just as much care is needed in choosing one as a hundred , and it is to selecting what to grow — and where to buy — that we now turn . |
| 30 | This is not part of the project plan but an aid to the project leader in creating one with an adequate safety margin . |