Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 2 | A few weeks of residential treatment are merely a scratch on the surface of the disease — but it is a deep scratch and it may help many more sufferers into recovery than might otherwise be successful through depending upon the AnonymouS Fellowships alone . |
| 3 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 4 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , commuted on June 26 the death sentences imposed on 29 people ( three of them women ) for collaborating with the Iraqi authorities . |
| 6 | He improved his championship best to a wind-assisted 10.39 seconds in the 100 metres semi-finals and the organisers have agreed to pay his expenses for competing in the Olympic trials in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 a bonus normally offered only to winners . |
| 7 | ‘ Notwithstanding the fact the minister and I , as chief financial officer , are accountable to Parliament — and there 's no comparison between appearing before the parliamentary accounts committee and shareholders at an AGM — the benefits are delivered in tiny pockets all over the country which makes it impossible to control directly from the centre . |
| 8 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 9 | They went on to consider whether the return during trading on one market leads the return during trading on the other markets . |
| 10 | How could you possibly enjoy yourself if that meant taking time off praying for the holy souls ? |
| 11 | In those days there was considerable emphasis on its carcass quality and 60,000 fat Jutlands were sent to England with another 30,000 lean cattle going for fattening on the German marshes . |
| 12 | Our expedition was the brainchild of a small , rotund , Bombay businessman with a penchant for climbing in the outermost reaches of the Himalayas . |
| 13 | Indeed , many women had no footwear suitable for walking beyond the local shops , boots always posing a major difficulty in household budgeting . |
| 14 | If the landlord attempts to take counter measures ( eg by erecting lockable posts in some spaces and issuing keys to some of the tenants and not others ) he may face an action for interfering with the other tenants ' easements . |
| 15 | If locally at y the second part of eqn ( 6.16 ) is to be satisfied after transforming to the unprimed coordinates we must therefore have . |
| 16 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 17 | The rationale underpinning Procedure Audit , therefore , is that a conceptual model of a chosen procedure can be constructed on similar lines to that of the SSM , which , after checking with the formal systems model , can be compared with the real situation to determine where changes are appropriate , taking account of defined measures of performance . |
| 18 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |
| 19 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 20 | There is a small harbour , and skeletons of boats decorate the stony beach , the road coming alongside after passing between the terraced cottages of the village . |
| 21 | He picked it up crossly , but after listening for a few moments , his expression softened and he nodded twice . |
| 22 | He could mature well after coming through the junior ranks . |
| 23 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 24 | The first minister he saw after taking in the new facts was Eden , in many ways his favourite at the time . |
| 25 | The town is in mourning after hearing about the two accidents at the weekend . |
| 26 | Mr Hart and his wife , Ruth , managed to get Mr Durrant invited after hearing about the planned celebrations . |
| 27 | After hearing about the latest methods of transporting troops about the battlefield , it is reassuring to know that the leg , foot and boot still work ! |
| 28 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 29 | ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles . |
| 30 | With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 . |