Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 2 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 3 | Do the postures continuously , in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading in to the next . |
| 4 | and the percentage staying on until the sixth year from 14 per cent . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half . |
| 6 | Eight miles from the Bauble lies the historic town of Colchester , an ancient town dating back to the 1st century BC with Roman remains , a ruined Norman castle , a 15th-century abbey , museums and excellent shopping facilities . |
| 7 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 8 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 9 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 10 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 11 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 12 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 13 | Science and The Church are caught in a bloody feud dating back to the 14th century . |
| 14 | Everybody did 10 laps with the winners of each race going through to the next heat . |
| 15 | SERB forces were last night closing in on the last Muslim-held stronghold in eastern Bosnia , battling at close range with defenders of Gorazde . |
| 16 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 17 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 18 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 19 | Visitors can see an extensive collection of textile machinery dating back to the 18th century along with an exhibition tracing the development of Wales ' woollen industry from the Middle Ages . |
| 20 | O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’ |
| 21 | While these discoveries illustrated remarkably well the period of the greatest renown and prosperity of Aphrodisias ( between late Hellenistic times and the early Byzantine era , i.e. , first century BC to the seventh century AD ) , archaeological evidence for a long prehistory dating back to the fifth millennium BC was recorded in excavations of two habitation mounds , or höyük , located at the heart of the Roman city . |
| 22 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 23 | Carter dealt out the oxygen cylinders while Ralph stood and stared at the smoke billowing out of the third floor of McKay 's department store . |
| 24 | That was the idea of the union starting out in the first place . |
| 25 | Lawyers acting for the 31 year-old double terror victim have recently entered into negotiations with Northern Ireland Office lawyers to settle a compensation case arising out of the first attack on him in which he lost a leg and suffered serious damage to an arm . |
| 26 | Let's must hope Smith 's mind is on the game tomorrow , when Redditch are at Hitchin to contest a place in the FA Cup 's final qualifying round before the Third and Fourth Division sides enter . |
| 27 | This is a very special 14-night tour which has only one departure on 19 June — perfectly timed to give a limited number of our customers a chance to attend the opening night of the Verona Opera Season : Verdi 's Don Carlo , performed in the 20,000 seat Roman Arena amphitheatre dating back to the 1st century . |
| 28 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 29 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 30 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |