Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 3 | Congress , this simply calls for the Labour Party , like the G M B and its experience yesterday in awarding like the gold badge to show and acknowledge long serving members with award of some sort of recognition . |
| 4 | For some of them , eagerly selling six-packs of beer on street corners , the new Berlin is full of opportunities . |
| 5 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 6 | Bush promised legislation " this year " setting specific goals and timetables for the reduction of acid rain pollution , a long running source of disagreement between the two countries . |
| 7 | so having things like division by a matrix , when the matrix happens to be zero . |
| 8 | In any case , Twoflower was delightedly taking picture after picture of people engaged in what he described as typical activities , and since a quarter-rhinu would subsequently change hands ‘ for their trouble ’ a tail of bemused and happy nouveaux-riches was soon following him in case this madman exploded in a shower of gold . |
| 9 | Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism . |
| 10 | ‘ Last I heard , the Eiffel Tower had n't collapsed and neither had Rome been sacked by pagans because of money perhaps changing hands in return for playing rugby ’ , he says . |
| 11 | Cyclops may have originated with the Arimaspians , a one-eyed race from Scythia who coveted gold and were constantly fighting gryphons for access to their caches of treasure . |
| 12 | In order to encourage the winter tourist industry , it had a winter fair featuring exhibitions of interest to farmers , and many winter sport events . |
| 13 | When it is only a month or two old , the long dangling object in front of its face is obviously a puzzle to it . |
| 14 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 15 | There we sat , at the dinette feature , side by side , equably untwirling yard after yard of the pale pasta . |
| 16 | Even if Bernard Stasi may be right in describing Jack Lang 's cultural policy as a ‘ spectacular performance played behind closed doors for the amusement of the prince and his obliging friends ’ , it will be a challenge to succeed him , the longest serving Minister of Culture of the Fifth Republic . |
| 17 | Orton was the longest serving prisoner of conscience in Africa . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel sure that this will lead to many of the girls following courses in Technology next year and hopefully , eventually seeking jobs in technology in industry ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 're departing from the idea that microcomputers will be a fantastic source of telecommunications traffic in the future , ’ said Jean-Jacques Damlamian , France Telecom 's sales director , citing a study by DG Conseil that shows France 's 420,000 networked personal computers already generating $160m per year in revenues for all types of telecommunications traffic . |
| 20 | Three of the principal shareholders were already producing films for release at the time of Dustin 's signing , and unfortunately proving that artistic liberty was not synonymous with artistic quality . |
| 21 | It 's already causing howls of outrage from the industry . |
| 22 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 23 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 24 | In mathematics education , we need to re-examine our approaches to ensure pupils see mathematics as for , and about , everyone , thus promoting recognition of mathematics as an activity we can all engage in . |
| 25 | It was n't Rory Adam had set his sights on , it was the nightclub , and it seemed now that his first devious move was already paying dividends in loss of business for Rory . |
| 26 | ‘ All mom and dad talk about is politics , I 'm already getting kind of sick of it , ’ she said . |
| 27 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 28 | He won further prestige when he was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for Twilight of the Gods in 1963 . |
| 29 | Out in the kitchen preparations were already taking place in readiness for the lunch-time trade . |
| 30 | Ask the person whether they already eat enough fibre and encourage them to eat more if necessary — and this does n't mean just putting bran on cereal at breakfast . |