Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 2 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 3 | Such an act of statesmanship appears the only way to avoid an outbreak of fighting between the two giants of the Commonwealth . |
| 4 | Her approach would be to treat spelling as a part of writing on the one hand and of pronunciation on the other . |
| 5 | At the end of his judgment he said , at p. 356 , that mandamus would not lie to direct the benchers of Gray 's Inn to compel them to call the applicant , who was a student member of the Inn , to the degree of a barrister-at-law and added that , if there was a ground for mandamus , the party must take the ancient course of applying to the 12 judges . |
| 6 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 7 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 8 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 9 | After years in the wilderness , he became head of the newly-established Institute for Forecasting in the mid-80s . |
| 10 | There has been a close connection between opera and poetry over the years ; given the interchange of thinking between the two subjects . |
| 11 | He could hear Sabrina in the bar below talking to the two men . |
| 12 | Many of the American psychiatrists who were doing much of the important pioneering empirical work on dreaming during the 1960s were deeply influenced by psychoanalysis . |
| 13 | So , I think you should now have a very clear basis for discriminating between the two sorts of two sorts of toxin . |
| 14 | A new climate for planning in the 1990s |
| 15 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 16 | After a period of blossoming in the 1970s , during which time homosexuals came into the public eye and fought militantly for their rights , the majority of gay organisations became institutionalised . |
| 17 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
| 18 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 19 | Growing burrs and hooks , reaming her snaggled , sleep-starved nerves , her fretting longed for the relaxation of talking to the one person who had always taken her part : her sister . |
| 20 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 21 | Other linguists imply even more clearly that there is no difference in meaning between the two versions of the infinitive by claiming that to is meaningless when it precedes the bare infinitive form . |
| 22 | Indeed , most grammarians claim that there is absolutely no difference in meaning between the two constructions , the only contrast being that the bare infinitive is more colloquial , or more American ( cf. |
| 23 | Such uses suggest very strongly that there is in fact a difference in meaning between the two constructions . |
| 24 | The difference in meaning between the two coincides therefore with the distinction already made between to infinitives evoking their event as a " subsequent potentiality " and those evoking it as a " subsequent actualization " . |
| 25 | A number of scholars up to the present have held that Mozart intended no difference in meaning between the two symbols . |
| 26 | There was some discussion on the difference in grading between the two posts . |
| 27 | Valtr Komarek and Jan Carnogursky were demoted from First Deputy Premier to Deputy Premier ( because there was no point in differentiating between the two levels of post , according to Marian Calfa , the Federal Premier ) . |
| 28 | In a diagram : There is a significant distinction in meaning between the two nevertheless , and it accounts for the use of the bare infinitive with the former . |
| 29 | The move to lending in the 1980s for ‘ adjustment ’ , and away from projects , has replaced a set of conditions closely tied to projects with a set tied to broader conditions affecting a whole economy , or large sectors within it . |
| 30 | Erm one was a penalty on Saturday , G Gary 's and of course you ca n't er really lay a lot of credit for getting in the six yard box on penalties , but he took his other goal well , shot and he pick he picked the bits up off the keeper and Gary scored a good headed goal from a a brilliant cross by Tony . |