Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 2 | Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality . |
| 3 | It might be something about blending with the efficient American women he had seen around the city or it might be a feeling of exile . |
| 4 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 5 | After wading through the comprehensive 40 page manual you may have some idea of what to do as , yet again , it 's simulation time ! |
| 6 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 7 | After serving with the Royal Flying Corps as a wireless equipment officer , a time which included a formative spell at the Wireless Experimental Station , Biggin Hill , Eckersley joined Marconi 's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1919 as head of the experimental section of its designs department . |
| 8 | I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) . |
| 9 | By folding the chute concertina fashion , it can be packed relatively tightly under the pack flaps in the order of bottom , sides , then top , before the release pin is secured through the cord loop , after passing through the other three flap eyelets . |
| 10 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 11 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 12 | Jobs : The rate at which smaller firms are shedding jobs has increased , after declining in the last five surveys , with a balance of 20pc more manufacturers reporting a fall than an increase . |
| 13 | They also said that maybe Strandli will push Wallace for the first team place after scoring in the last 2 reserve matches . |
| 14 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 15 | After losing to the little Chinese-American again , this time by 6-3 , 6-4 , he admitted that he had changed his mind . |
| 16 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 17 | Paul , 23 , of nearby Crawley , was tipped for stardom after finishing in the top 30 at the Austrian Open . |
| 18 | After participating in the abortive 1848 uprisings in Germany Marx lived his life in exile in England . |
| 19 | However , he was expelled from the CFD in August after participating in the Grand National Debate organized by Kolingba [ see p. 39040 ] . |
| 20 | A Leading aircraftsman , he joined the RAF when it was formed in 1918 after transferring from the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 21 | We have developed a combination depth electrode ( Spencer probe , Ad-tech Instrument Co. , Racine , WI ) and microdialysis probe ( dialytrode ) suitable for implanting in the conscious human brain to measure extracellular concentrations of glutamate and GABA in epilepsy . |
| 22 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 23 | The firm has also introduced a new front linkage with lift capacities of 3500kg ( 7715lb ) for fitting to the latest 3670 and 3690 tractors as well as the 3680 . |
| 24 | Tens of thousands of Popular Front supporters , most of them refugees from Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia , criticised the Azerbaijani CP leadership for acquiescing in the central Soviet authorities ' retaining responsibility for security in Nagorny Karabakh when the region had been restored to Azerbaijani control in November 1989 following 10 months of direct rule from Moscow [ see p. 37044 ] . |
| 25 | This should represent a fair indemnity to the Claimant i.e. either the value of the property at the time of the loss , taking into account depreciation/wear and tear and the original purchase price or the cost of repairing to the immediate pre-accident condition . |
| 26 | In preparation for this , the first decade of the regime was devoted to the development of the infrastructure , in particular the railways and canals , so that by 1860 France had reached a point where it was felt she was capable of competing with the greatest economic power of the age . |
| 27 | Because of the difficulty of finding precise equivalents in English , I shall follow the common practice of sticking to the original Russian terms . |
| 28 | Mansell last night admitted he was considering driving in the infamous Indy sports car series in the USA — despite fears about safety . |
| 29 | This book ends on a heavy tone of the thought of returning to the evil civilised world . |
| 30 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |