Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room will be furnished with tatami ( mats ) for walking over in bare feet or socks/tights and seating is on zabuton ( large cushions ) . |
| 2 | After teaming up with fellow musicians in the early Seventies , he formed Alaap , performing at Asian shows and weddings , a practice they still do as well as supporting the likes of Peter Gabriel and UB40 at international music festivals . |
| 3 | A HOSPITAL consultant who claimed she was sacked after speaking out against nursing shortages won her appeal against dismissal yesterday . |
| 4 | OS/2 : After fuelling up with 6,000 gallons of gas , you get in the car and drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in procession . |
| 5 | One evening in May 1979 they eagerly clambered in after warming up with several glasses of favourite tipple , turned the thermostat up high and set to . |
| 6 | After washing up for five days , the 4th Bottesford Pack in South Humberside raised enough money to buy daffodil bulbs which they planted beside their church car park . |
| 7 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 8 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 9 | Certainly there is Biblical precedent for splashing out on special occasions — Martha 's anointing of Jesus with the expensive ointment could easily be used as a justification for spraying around a little champagne to hansel a special occasion . |
| 10 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 11 | The benefits of contracting out at younger ages stem from the fact that the flat-rate rebate is based on an average of the costs of providing benefits for all age groups . |
| 12 | We saw in Chapter 6 that fixed-term contracts offer one , strictly limited , means of contracting out of statutory rights . |
| 13 | In marine manufacturing one has the sense of a kind of using up of existing facilities and skills without much new investment , although the Tyne does have R and D capacity in this sector . |
| 14 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 15 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 16 | The Government imposed a ceiling of 1.5 per cent in the public sector is showing little sign of filtering through to private companies , said the report . |
| 17 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 18 | She paints hearts in lots of different colours and says she has no intention of branching out into other organs of the body . |
| 19 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 20 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 21 | This was not so much a service as a lot of clowning about to biblical themes . |
| 22 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 23 | We will end the present Government 's policy of clawing back from local authorities amounts equivalent to those they receive from the European Community 's regional development fund . |
| 24 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 25 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 26 | Playing with other children , joining group activities , spending time in the park and playground — they 're all important parts of growing up for pre-school children . |
| 27 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 28 | And being part of the tradition , they are part of the way of going on in those sub-cultures . |
| 29 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 30 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |