Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , Grolier 's books are famous for gilt stamps on the upper covers : sometimes ‘ Grolierii Lugdunensis et Amicorum ’ ( 'for Grolier of Lyons and his friends ' , Lugdunum being the Latin name , appearing in many publishers ' imprints , for Lyons ) ; sometimes just ‘ Io Grolierii et Amicorum ’ ( for Grolier and his friends ) ; and , almost always on the lower cover , a text from the Vulgate , Psalm cxli . |
| 2 | The tax rebate relating to prior years ' tax paid was recognised in last year 's accounts as an extraordinary tax credit , but has been included in taxation on profit on ordinary activities in these accounts in accordance with FRS3 . |
| 3 | They are overcharging for fitting childrens ' safety seats . |
| 4 | The celebrated bust , looking like two dunces ' caps applied to her chest , was encased in a puce halter-necked sweater which left all but essentials bare . |
| 5 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 6 | Although much of the racism that black job-seekers experience is of a direct and overt kind , it is important to recognize that a variety of indirect forms of discrimination also operates against black people in the search for employment , ranging from common employers ' practices like recruiting relatives and children of existing workers to the operation of particular conceptions of the ‘ good ’ worker which militate against the employment of workers thought to be different in manner or appearance ( Lee and Wrench , 1983 ; Blackburn and Mann , 1979 ; Jenkins , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | And somebody else with different experience from me , writing in twenty-five years ' time , will produce a very different book from mine . |
| 8 | THERE was not a lot in the budget for farmers according to National Farmers ' Union of Scotland analysts after a day 's reflection . |
| 9 | Many companies are now acting on top executives ' concern over education by forging closer ties with schools through compacts , which link performance at school to job or training opportunities . |
| 10 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 11 | While the students compete for honours within their class , the teacher may be looking to the class as a whole , competing with other teachers ' classes , to bring him esteem and promotion . |
| 12 | Also responsible are retailers ' own-label products , which are eating into many brands ' market shares . |
| 13 | Well , you 'll be flying in seven months ' time . |
| 14 | creating opportunities and providing conditions in which teachers can spend more time working together , sharing problems , commenting on each others ' performance , and collaborating in curriculum planning . |
| 15 | Conversation can be generated by pupils using drill and practice software as well as database programs , in that the pupils often use each other as a resource for learning , drawing upon each others ' preknowledge and experience . |
| 16 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 17 | If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ? |
| 18 | This means , for example , that , given the current spot yields , the market is expecting the yield on a one-year bond maturing in three years ' time to be 11.92 per cent . |
| 19 | Today the ‘ A ’ team take the field against county champions Essex at Lord 's , the opening fixture in a first-class season which will still be running in 22 weeks ' time . |
| 20 | Surprisingly , the respondents believed that independent R&D efforts were the most effective means of learning about rival firms ' technology ( although licensing was also regarded as an effective learning mechanism ) . |
| 21 | The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities ' services . |
| 22 | Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time . |
| 23 | The Minister has also criticised our lack of proposals for individual units , but when we table questions to get information on which to base proposals , which perhaps we will be implementing in six months ' time , we can not get proper answers from the Government . |
| 24 | It is clearly essential that the fire authority 's requirements are complied with in this regard , be they reasonable or not , but there is no harm in insisting upon any insurers ' requirements being reasonable and , in any event , the reference to the landlord 's requirements , reasonable or otherwise , should be deleted . |
| 25 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |
| 26 | So we 're talking about two weeks ' time , that 's two weeks Thursday . |
| 27 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 28 | I discovered Buddy Guy , who was playing in Muddy Waters ' band and there was this album called ‘ Folk Festival Of The Blues ’ , which was the first album that Buddy Guy had appeared on . |
| 29 | They are also written in response to technological breakthroughs ; to counter Soviet changes in weapons and tactics ; and to compete with new systems emerging from other countries ' armament industries . |
| 30 | To allow us to compare community care plans without appearing overly judgemental , and to structure our discussion of the part played by care programming in different authorities ' policies for mental health , the rest of this section employs the biological concepts of assimilation and adaptation . |