Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn .
2 I 'll go on accepting payment until the course finishes
3 Caradryel introduces the system of rotating units to the Gateway fortresses so that the garrisons are always at full strength .
4 Early studies of the contemporary romance form tended to offer somewhat disbelieving accounts of the readership figures for a fiction in which marriage was invariably offered as the solution for female anxiety ; as in David Margolies ' attempts to do this in his application of the tools of literary criticism to the most consistently successful publishing concern in the world .
5 The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members .
6 Mainz Cathedral is immense and was altered in later periods when the crossing towers were rebuilt in different styles and houses were constructed abutting on to and becoming part of the cathedral flanks .
7 In May Jim rounded off his season by representing Scotland in the World Championships .
8 The overall regression equation , calibrated by ordinary least squares , relating population to the carrier variables is Table 5.3 gives further details .
9 In September it was revealed that the government was soliciting comments from the opposition parties on the election process .
10 and they 'll get very worried , and it 's quite a difficult area because you have to be on the look out for something that 's not right , but you do n't want people to get er very worried because those feet are going to be very mobile and doing non walking thing until the child walks , they 're also very fat and podgy are n't they little babies ' feet ?
11 After Britain 's entry into the Common Market in 1975 , trading links with the Commonwealth countries loomed much less large , as did defence considerations after the Wilson government withdrew Britain 's presence from ‘ east of Suez ’ in 1968–70 .
12 There were reasonable grounds for hoping that the Salt 11 Treaty would be ratified by the American Congress , prohibiting deployment of the cruise devices for two years .
13 The following minutes will be taken as forming part of the Contract Documents : =
14 ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square .
15 On May 29 tens of thousands of demonstrators in Tirana 's Skanderbeg Square , calling for the overthrow of the government and expressing support for the hunger strikers , attacked police with rocks , bottles and fire-bombs .
16 And that 's grouping notes plus the bar lines .
17 Around one fifth of those replying to one question said that they are offering the general SVQs in partnership with another organisation , while one third are seeking partnership for the Skillstart awards .
18 UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons .
19 Despite security risks — even though no written minutes were kept — the raid was remounted in August , with commandos replacing paras for the flank forces when two LSIs became available and as weather conditions for air-drops differ from those for seaborne landings .
20 The attacking troops are certainly not getting it all their own way and the shelling from both sides is causing casualties in the Commando positions . ’
21 Gómez and Lloreda opposed extradition , favouring dialogue with the drug cartels in the hope of capitalizing on a perceived public weariness with the drug war .
22 As regards the latter , some of the most mobile in the British case are workers in personal services ; those , for example , seeking work in the catering trades .
23 Although capital and operating costs of the wind generators were higher , the disparity was reduced by the absence of fuel costs .
24 Some heavily-indebted developers have run into trouble , causing problems for the finance companies that back them .
25 Both proposals , little changed in respect to the previous , have been controversial within the Commission itself and are still causing problems among the member states .
26 What little time remained for indoor work was occupied mainly in making clean copies of the maps and in writing memoirs on the coalfield areas .
27 Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets .
28 ALL members of the Pension Scheme will have received an announcement recently detailing changes to the Scheme Rules .
29 In Ceylon , stations ranged from those which served the elegant bungalow coastal suburbs of Colombo and those used by Europeans seeking refreshment at the hill stations or at Mount Lavinia to special ‘ coolie ’ stations , where the Tamil labour migrants introduced from South India to the tea plantations could be detrained and kept in quarantine until health requirements could be met .
30 No I do n't think I have , indeed I am meeting members of the grass roots of the party this afternoon .
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