Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among these last was Archbishop Reynolds who had at first excommunicated the invaders by pressing into service a ten-year-old denunciation against the Scots ! |
| 2 | ‘ If there 's bandits along any of these sections , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll skip 'em and you can tack on the extra mileage by walking round Kano a few times . ’ |
| 3 | He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man . |
| 4 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 5 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 6 | Our friend the Reverend G. M. Musgrave , disembarking at Boulogne a dozen years earlier , was much impressed by the French system : ‘ The contrivances for receiving , weighing , marking and paying for luggage were simple and excellent . |
| 7 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 8 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 9 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 10 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 11 | The Board is recommending to shareholders a final dividend of 7.1 pence per ordinary share making a total dividend for the year of 10.3 pence compared with 9.65 pence last year . |
| 12 | For example , if a company occupies a self-contained building then it may simply be looking at sub-letting a surplus floor or floors to achieve its objective . |
| 13 | Society still needs a large number of its adult citizens to give caring for others a higher priority than a conventional career . |
| 14 | At the time of going to press a fourth PC World was due to open at Staples Corner . |
| 15 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you 're just going to print a final output , and you see a number on it that looks odd , you can just hit F7 and go back to where it 's generated , even if you have got to go through several worksheets . |
| 17 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 18 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 19 | The odd thing about this new lava plug is that it went straight up , like a piston in a cylinder , wearing on top a thick cap of mud and clay , which had originally been deposited in a crater lake and had formed the ground surface prior to all the upheaval . |
| 20 | But if they are experiencing on average a smaller rise , you would want to raise output , taking advantage of the high relative price on your island ; and if they are experiencing a larger rise you would want to reduce supply . |
| 21 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 22 | ‘ He may not be dead , ’ put in Charlotte , drawing from Frank a withering glare . |
| 23 | The cells are distributed so that callers travelling through cells a fair distance apart can use the same frequencies without interfering with each other , making most use of the limited spectrum available . |
| 24 | If we allow for a stochastic element in lifetime income , then individuals may respond rather differently , having for example a lower propensity to consume out of windfall or ‘ entrepreneurial ’ gains . |
| 25 | From here you depart at 5.30pm and head up the Moselle for overnight mooring at Aiken a delightful wine village overlooked by the Thurant Castle . |
| 26 | That would save an awful lot of lives and make travelling by train a great deal more attractive and competitive . |
| 27 | Even taking into account a recent £200m order for another four chemical carriers to guarantee work for Kvaerner Govan 's 1,650 permanent workers to 1995 , the last commercial shipyard in Glasgow remains a shadow of the Scottish industry that used to employ 70,000 on the Clyde alone . |
| 28 | Also , taking into account a 100 Group survey and a brief note on the view of organisations already authorised to train , the report concludes that although the ‘ TOPP schemes established so far are providing excellent training opportunities for those students who are committed to a career in a non-practising environment ’ , the Institute may need to review its approach if it wants to increase the range of its training opportunities . |
| 29 | In particular , it may prevent the market 's price discovery mechanism operating as a genuine indicator of supply and demand , creating in turn a misleading impression of the value of a particular contract . |
| 30 | This tactical change , confirmed at the ninth full session of the Communist International in February 1928 , and aimed , according to Georges Cogniot , at creating in France a working-class front against the combined bloc of social democracy and the bourgeoisie , was none the less interpreted by many in the PCF primarily as the need to intensify the struggle against social democracy . |