Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least eight prison inmates attempt suicide or mutilate themselves daily according to the Howard League for Penal Reform which said the catalogue of self-injuries , almost 3,000 incidents last year , was an ‘ appalling record ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps acting as a UK branch of an existing US shareware outfit might be a starting point — again , others have done it , and now have very successful libraries . |
| 3 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 4 | He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out . |
| 5 | But basically turning to the Selby situation erm I mean here here we have a district that does n't have any areas of acknowledged national or landscape im importance at all but as as I mentioned previously that 's not to say that there are n't valuable areas of countryside within the district and areas which to use use the words of of P P G advice are valued by the people that live and and work in the district and and also by visitors . |
| 6 | Did he have any political motives for apparently dealing with the Volga population almost as harshly and coldly as with starving Ukrainians or the Tambov peasantry ? |
| 7 | So there was an Englishman , a Welshman and a Scotswoman all fighting for the Hereford seat in Parliament … and you 'll have to wait until 9th April to hear the punchline . |
| 8 | It was bad enough sitting in the London traffic without having to listen to the mumblings of his international racing manager . |
| 9 | The EEC 's attitude is somewhat baffling to the Višegrad trade negotiators : it lectures them on the merits of free trade , while closing its own markets . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Time is running out , Northern Ireland is slowly developing into a Bosnia situation . |
| 11 | TURNING A HUMBLE PC INTO A NETWORKED BEASTIE INVOLVES MORE THAN JUST BUNGING IN AN ETHERNET CARD . |
| 12 | On the boring but practical side — do n't get too carried away wandering through the Dartmoor mist — it 's all too easy to get lost so do n't try it unless you 're competent with a map and compass . |
| 13 | These firms are already suffer-ing from the US recession and a further hike in duty could be a fatal blow . |
| 14 | Iraqi forces were already massing on the Kuwait border when Flight 149 took off from Heathrow at 6.05pm on August 1 , 1990 after a two-hour delay . |
| 15 | The trek proves long and arduous , with casualties mounting as they forge through swamps and mountains before finally breaking into the Dalek city . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt a nine-match ban was a fair punishment for Davis , who was just breaking into the England squad at the time , and I suspect the FA may make an example of Ian as well . ’ |
| 17 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 18 | Behind the scenes Pilger , still fuming from the Kennedy Hotel showdown , was working separately . |
| 19 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister convened the first ever meeting of the UN Security Council at Heads of Government level . |
| 21 | ‘ Because John does shift work I get very lonely and would like to write to someone in a similar position to myself , preferably living in the Sheffield area . ’ |
| 22 | Police are still looking for a Phillips radio cassette serial number PH 620 FB 5028714 . |
| 23 | Mr McEwan said police had so far been unable to trace any members of the missing girl 's family still living in the Coatbridge area . |
| 24 | Mr McEwan said that police had been unable to trace any members of the missing girl 's family still living in the Coatbridge area . |
| 25 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 26 | The central bankers have a vested interest in allowing their Japanese counterparts room for further interest rate cuts in Tokyo in an attempt to prevent further haemorrhaging on the Tokyo stock market which has hit stock prices in New York . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the firm said yesterday that the new redundancies were to allow further restructuring in the Arbroath plant and maximise the company 's manufacturing resources . |
| 28 | For many years Iceland and New Zealand have used geysers and aquifers to provide space and water heating and in Britain research work that began in 1973 on hot dry rock is still continuing at the Camborne School of Mines , Cornwall . |
| 29 | Oxford still bubbling in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 30 | She has made much of statements made by Neville , and has quoted him as saying that ‘ the weapons of revolution are obscenity , blasphemy and drugs ’ and as further saying during the OZ trial that the whole point of pornography was to promote promiscuity . |