Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best , who will attend a Lions meeting in Edinburgh on Sunday — the 30-strong squad wo n't be chosen until after the last internationals on 21 March — is looking for more back play tomorrow , but if the weather gets any worse he fears that aerial bombardments may be the order of the day . |
| 2 | Holidaymakers , who stand to lose their money after a travel company collapsed , have been attending a creditors meeting today . |
| 3 | But ‘ a summers rambling over rugged ground ( of the lakes ) would be more beneficial than all the waters in the universe . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a shareholders meeting and the press are excluded , ’ confirmed a club official . |
| 5 | A It is caused by honeydew , exuded by aphids , which then becomes the host to a fungi giving the foliage a sooty look . |
| 6 | In a joint venture with Petrolimex , the Vietnamese state oil company , BP became the first major oil company to build a lubricants blending plant and to market lubricants in that country . |
| 7 | It was learnt yesterday county councillors have already considered ending a schools cleaning contract awarded to a private firm hired to look after Middlesbrough schools after the it notched up 22 default notices between last August and May 1 . |
| 8 | In fact , the police force lacked access to any digital information and although the evacuation went off without a hitch there is little doubt that a GIS containing the Chinese postman algorithm could have provided efficient routes and also have guaranteed that no road was missed from the warning sweep . |
| 9 | Old Norman Hunter sounded like he was bored of it all and just kept saying ‘ looking at it , you just ca n't see where a goals gon na come from ’ . |
| 10 | a convertible , with a eyes streaming , it was really hard to see , and clocked his speed at fifty , and er the bloke behind me nearly got hit , because when I went past this bloke I went |
| 11 | Staff and governors at Our Lady of Fatima Upper School , Anfield , have organised a parents meeting on Monday . |
| 12 | It has peat blocks and a 3″ covering of fine gravel with external filtration . |
| 13 | However , McCallen will not know until after a stewards meeting tomorrow morning whether or not he will be on the front row of the grid . |
| 14 | Eddie McDermid tackles the administration side of being a salesmen using his car as a mobile office . |
| 15 | At Wigan , a reredos depicting the death of Ananias , which had been woven in the Mortlake tapestry works , was placed behind the altar of the parish church , and at Nicholas Ferrar 's parish church at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire , a reredos consisting of three brass plates inscribed with the Ten Commandments , the Creed , and the Lord 's Prayer was erected . |
| 16 | At Wigan , a reredos depicting the death of Ananias , which had been woven in the Mortlake tapestry works , was placed behind the altar of the parish church , and at Nicholas Ferrar 's parish church at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire , a reredos consisting of three brass plates inscribed with the Ten Commandments , the Creed , and the Lord 's Prayer was erected . |
| 17 | Any party , including the child , may be excluded from a directions hearing if they are legally represented and their absence is desirable in the child 's interests in view of the matters to be discussed ( FPCR , r16(2) ; FPR , r4.16(2) ) . |
| 18 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 19 | VXM claims a CPU-intensive subroutine created using PVM and executing on a cluster of mixed network environments could be accessed by a applications running on systems running ToolTalk services . |
| 20 | There is a delegates meeting in the Constitutional Club tomorrow night ( 6–30 ) and if that particular item is not top of their agenda it should be . |
| 21 | He left for Birmingham ahead of the team for a managers meeting yesterday and with coach Jens will be working hard to get the best out of the team against Iceland and against the Czech Republic on Thursday and the USA on Friday . |
| 22 | She is being kneaded and punched like bread dough by a Valkyrie sporting the corporate logo tattooed on a bicep . |
| 23 | Representatives of foreign , defence and border guard ministries of CIS member states met in Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) on July 16 to discuss the establishment of a CIS peacekeeping force . |
| 24 | On 4 June the Company introduced a parcels carrying service , using the front platforms of Mitcham & Sutton cars . |
| 25 | Bob Holmes on a fearless Thai player and a three-times losing finalist aiming to capture the sport 's biggest prize |
| 26 | It 's got a quarters missing . |
| 27 | It kicks-off on August 15 and Parry was yesterday involved in a fixtures meeting in Coventry . |
| 28 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |
| 29 | The appointment of a non-computer person , Louis Gerstner , as the new chief executive , now regarded as a near-certainty , did nothing to improve sentiment , and late on Tuesday , the shares tumbled $3.125 to $51.125 , fuelled by a profits warning from Amdahl Corp . |
| 30 | Thorold Mackie , a small companies ' analyst who is highly thought of in the city 's financial circles , has been charged with obtaining and misusing price-sensitive information relating to a profits warning by Glasgow-based Shanks & McEwan . |