Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They imposed the overtime ban last week after two nurses were sacked for using a pig 's head to terrify patients . |
| 2 | We acknowledge that individuals drawn to WFS 's conference possibly had genuine intentions , but we have no confidence that the aims , objectives , and structure will set the path for building a women 's movement . |
| 3 | I remembered that Carolyn Henderson had recommended the use of a formula , in the November edition of Today 's Horse , for approximating a horse 's weight . |
| 4 | Even so , a miner such as Anthony High , who was formerly a cobbler , could earn money repairing underground shoes for the management , and in June 1846 he was given 3/ for repairing a blacksmith 's leather bellows . |
| 5 | COUNCIL worker Derek Bastard earns £37,000 a year … just for keeping a city 's street lights going . |
| 6 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 7 | Some better-known ladies are full of support for keeping a woman 's age her own , however . |
| 8 | In addition there had been a report on June 30 that the Supreme Council had changed the law on the status of deputies , including a provision for annulling a deputy 's mandate if his or her activity tended to hinder the development of an independent democratic state . |
| 9 | The wages councils ' minimum rates are far from a pathway to comfort and security , but they do often make the difference between keeping a family 's head above the water and going under . |
| 10 | There are two grounds for challenging a meeting 's decision : first , if the arrangement unfairly prejudices the interest of a particular creditor ; second , if there was some procedural irregularity . |
| 11 | It said that there was ‘ no empirical evidence for correlating a politician 's effectiveness in office with his or her sexual orientation ’ ; it was critical of ‘ a large reason for electing a party being because its leader is fortunate in his [ sic ] marriage ’ ; it claimed that the family had been ‘ elevated into the status of party policy . |
| 12 | A Cheltenham man has been sent to gaol for two months after breaking a policeman 's nose . |
| 13 | The Merseyside soap opera star , an avid modern art collector , set off in pursuit , overpowered the two men and one woman and frogmarched them to Hope Street police station after making a citizen 's arrest . |
| 14 | A MAN was caught after leaving a dentist 's appointment card at one of the places he burgled , Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | Last week two nurses were sacked for dressing a pig 's head as a patient and parading it in front of acutely disturbed women . |
| 16 | It is clear in the present case that the statute makes no express or implied requirement that the Secretary of State should state his reasons for refusing a prisoner 's release . |
| 17 | Above all , are they a reliable basis for believing a school 's assurance about quality ? |
| 18 | However , the scope for publishing a defendant 's side of the story prior to trial is wider than is commonly believed . |
| 19 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |
| 20 | Erm the process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 21 | The process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 22 | The process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 23 | The couple felt they should make their plight known so that others would realise the danger of accepting a surveyor 's report . |
| 24 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 25 | ‘ Even if I were n't of Hindu stock , I doubt if I would ever have been attracted by the notion of eating a cow 's stomach . ’ |
| 26 | But apply to the European Tour for a spot in its qualifying scheme and your chances of gaining a Player 's card at the end of it are a measly one in 20 . |
| 27 | Another electronic effect , pioneered for this story , and thereafter used in all subsequent Dalek serials , was the Dalek extermination effect-a very simple trick of opening a camera 's aperture too wide , thereby admitting in too much light , swamping the camera 's electronics and causing it to send back to the gallery a negative image . |
| 28 | A land lease was another kind of commercial favour which recurs , and this too could form a useful and persuasive means of keeping a voter 's loyalty , as in the attempt to augment the Argyll interest in the burgh of Stirling in 1756 by giving a tack of land in Argyllshire to Robert Campbell , a brother of the laird of Barcaldine , who was one of the merchants of the town . |
| 29 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
| 30 | Since the musician works with notes , why should we not accept that colour by its intrinsic force is capable of expressing a painter 's thought ? ’ |