Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 2 | Our beamy Bénéteau made a lot of noise as she slammed down into the troughs before climbing the next steep wave . |
| 3 | The basic solution is first to restrict the flow of water percolating down into the aquifers by planting trees , preferably native species , on the higher ground . |
| 4 | Some kind of assessment of the competence of teachers was seen as a way of weeding out those who were incompetent : a reaction to severe cuts in education ( along with the effects of falling rolls ) , and the need to thin out the teaching force . |
| 5 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
| 6 | Coun Arthur Taylor said there was no planning opposition so they should not give in to the vandals by refusing the application . |
| 7 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 8 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 9 | Last year for instance Barton Shield skipper Colm McCarroll brought Wilson , Winston and Kehoe junior , the men who were subsequently to win the National youth title , into his line-up and Derry battled their way through to the quarter-finals before losing to Belvoir Park . |
| 10 | For budding artists who would like to stage their own exhibition , but are put off by the costs of framing , a visit to the Melford Fine Arts is a must . |
| 11 | For budding artists who would like to stage their own exhibition , but are put off by the costs of framing , a visit to the Melford Fine Arts is a must . |
| 12 | Well it certainly is , and we think that we 've had an examin of our co , examination of the constitution , we 've made a number of changes , but the task for Labour now is to press on with the issues of looking at our policies , and making sure that our economic policy and our social policy a actually meets the changes that are out their in the world . |
| 13 | My accountant is n't sitting here on my shoulder , and I 'd have to ask her , Bill , but it 's certainly we do n't assume a hundred per cent take up for the purposes of estimating like this . |
| 14 | Consumers liked being able to lift a bottle to their lips , and were not so hung up about the problems of disposing of bottles . |
| 15 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 16 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 17 | But erm the logistics costs are made up from the costs of procuring spares and support equipment largely and er for an aircraft such as this , the amount of equipment required to operate at first line is very low indeed . |
| 18 | To film arctic foxes facing up to the rigours of approaching winter . |
| 19 | But he would not countenance a " Party within a Party , " and the NAC had to face up to the consequences of maintaining a separate party in Parliament . |
| 20 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 21 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 22 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 23 | A lot of activity on the ceiling , too … as Ninereeds hovered , thumping the air with his wings , Twoflower peered up at the shapes of roosting beasts and tiny men-shaped dots that were somehow walking upside down . |
| 24 | FISHING fans can find out about the benefits of restocking rivers at a public meeting tomorrow . |
| 25 | This was in the study of pragmatics , a fast-growing and popular new area of research in linguistics , which came out of the controversies about meaning which had dominated linguistics around 1970 . |
| 26 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 27 | Blowers studies Backdraft 's dynamic video sleeve , depicting Russell striding manfully out of the flames after rescuing a child . |
| 28 | In business it is not uncommon for a seller ( X ) to sell large quantities of a commodity to a buyer ( Y Ltd. ) in the knowledge that Y Ltd. will be able to pay for them only out of the proceeds of re-selling them . |
| 29 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 30 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |