Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Rinuccini wrote a Dafne consisting of a prologue and six scenes . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) If there is a residence order in force relating to a child and the " residential parent " agrees to the provision of accommodation , anyone else with parental responsibility is powerless to object and can not remove the child . |
| 3 | Article 25 d. of the 1983 UCP provides that banks will reject a transport document issued by a freight forwarder ‘ unless it is the FIATA Combined Transport Bill of Lading approved by the International Chamber of Commerce or otherwise indicates that it is issued by a freight forwarder acting as a carrier or agent of a named carrier . ’ |
| 4 | As shown in Fig. 9.5 terraces are formed by a head of rejuvenation receding up a river and causing the river to become entrenched in its earlier valley floor . |
| 5 | The tube was then introduced up to the sigmoid colon with the endoscope acting as a guide When the balloons were inflated with air , two 8 cm long segments were established ( Fig 1 ) ; one in the rectum ( rectal segment ) and another in the sigmoid colon ( sigmoid segment ) . |
| 6 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 7 | There is also an add-on module , the Enterprise Mail Manager ( EMM ) , a graphical management system for network configuration , operation and maintenance running in an X-Windows and Motif environment . |
| 8 | By buying a £1 ticket , racegoers will be given a number which will correspond to a horse running in a race and , if it wins , they are guaranteed a return of 4-1 whether the horse is odds-on or an outsider . |
| 9 | Hands on knees and lights out with a mind buzzing like a bee and the strong conviction that I should be sorting out something more tangible than my mind . |
| 10 | Certainly the actress seemed friendly enough , her perfectly carved mouth curving into a smile as she nodded amiably ; yet there was something about her that sent a warning tingle up Shannon 's spine . |
| 11 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 12 | The last point is demonstrated by the fact that according to Johnson 's definition neither a lawyer working for a company nor a lawyer working for a neighbourhood centre would be a professional . |
| 13 | You could suggest that you both pop around on a week-day evening , or you could take Mum-in-law shopping on a Saturday while he 's at the match . |
| 14 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 15 | All but the simplest PC LANs are likely to have a central computer acting as a file or database server , dedicated to looking after the data on behalf of all the desktop machines . |
| 16 | I saw the cat hanging from a tree and a man beating it with a stick . |
| 17 | One of the applications demonstrated will be an intelligent desk consisting of a videophone and B-ISDN workstation mounted on a desktop , designed to provide access to multimedia databases and medical information services such as transmission of X-ray photographs and Computerised Tomography Scanner images . |
| 18 | The only type of legal research that most practising lawyers want to do is research into the law relating to a case that they have on hand . |
| 19 | The 1960s saw some hectic Australian searching for a music that was ‘ ours ’ , not ‘ theirs ’ . |
| 20 | Sale agreements commonly provide for the value of the pension rights to be calculated according to a formula set out in the agreement and for the detailed calculations to be agreed between the parties ' actuaries , or , if they do not agree , to be determined by another actuary acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 21 | An option may say that the price for the purchase at that future date will be determined by a valuer acting as an expert if the parties can not agree on the price at that time . |
| 22 | I mean , if I sort of just stay for a , for a while but er I 've still keep looking for work looking for a job cos I do wan na get away from B T. |
| 23 | The landing place is for a meadow lying on a shelf or terrace beneath the cliffs : the Rutli meadow where representatives of the three founding cantons met in 1307 to take a solemn oath confirming their Everlasting League to defend the liberties their valleys had inherited against tyrants . |
| 24 | Two relatively modern areas have been investigated — those of telephone selling as a technique and the selling of services because of societal changes that have taken place over recent years . |
| 25 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 26 | He announced that he had resigned in accordance with a recent party proposal providing for an income and wealth ceiling for those holding leadership posts . |
| 27 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 28 | AIR AND ANGELS by Susan Hill Mandarin , £3.99 THE natural choice to be the next head of his Cambridge College , a bachelor philosopher in his fifties , sees a 15-year-old girl standing on a bridge and instantly , desperately falls in love with her . |
| 29 | The sample was drawn from carers providing substantial amounts of help to a disabled adult living in the same household , excluding spouse carers and caring arising from a son or daughter born disabled . |
| 30 | Next , try depicting the mannequin leaning on a stick or sitting down , remembering as your draw what it 's like to do these things yourself . |