Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 2 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 3 | As the second round of European matches gets into full swing tonight , Rangers can only sit back and watch after tumbling out to a last minute goal from Levski Sofia . |
| 4 | After missing out on the last 2 grand prix , a win for Mansell in France was a must , but he was beaten off the grid by his team mate , Ricardo Patrese . |
| 5 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 6 | What 's sort of going on since the last time I interviewed you . |
| 7 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 8 | Eric Cantona 's 85th minute goal was far too little and unfortunately far too late to save Howard Wilkinson 's men suffering the agony of going out for the second time in the space of five weeks . |
| 9 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 10 | Right at the end Inst coach Denis Guiler , forced into coming on as a 50th minute substitute so depleted were his side 's ranks , almost stole the headlines with the winner , but his effort was brilliantly saved by goalkeeper Raymond Geddis . |
| 11 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 12 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 13 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 14 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 15 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 16 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 17 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 18 | Good team spirit was built up during lunch before heading out to the second round . |
| 19 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 20 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 21 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 22 | It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next . |
| 23 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 24 | Thus , when he explained his view of the campaign , and of the war as whole , to Cantalupo on 4 April , he claimed that he was waging war slowly , in order to avoid unnecessary destruction and to consolidate the " liberation " ( which , he said , was not the same as the mere " conquest " ) of one area before going on to the next . |
| 25 | Individuals will approach a Lect/Dem. differently and the details will vary , but in the main it is more practical to take a piece of apparatus and say all you want to about its use before going on to the next piece . |
| 26 | Breadth-first search extends all the paths at one level of the search tree ( the siblings ) before going on to the next level ( the descendants ) . |
| 27 | It should perhaps be pointed out before going on to the next set of examples to be discussed that most of the uses found with have admit of only one of the two interpretations given above . |
| 28 | PRESTWICK 's David Gourlay , jun , the first Scot in action in yesterday 's opening day of the £140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Championship , survived an off-green setback before moving through to the second round with a three sets to one win over past UK champion Stephen Rees . |
| 29 | The eyes of the slow reader will stop on each word before moving on to the next one . |
| 30 | SPAR processed stories sentence by sentence , resolving the ambiguities in each sentence , integrating the information in them into context , and outputting a paraphrase of the sentence , before moving on to the next one . |