Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] 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 He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 At the time of going to press a fourth PC World was due to open at Staples Corner .
8 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 . ’
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons .
14 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 .
15 That would save an awful lot of lives and make travelling by train a great deal more attractive and competitive .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Taking in part a similar line , the Civil Justice Review has recommended staff training to enable court staff to give direct assistance to members of the public in the handling of their cases .
20 He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait .
21 Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky .
22 When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’
23 Brooke-Rose 's main objection to this model is that Greimas follows Lévi-Strauss in making of woman a silenced object of exchange whose signified has been repressed ( ravished ) into the unconscious ( elsewhere ) .
24 Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s .
25 As RPP is about putting in place a single mechanism for demand management , it will have a significant effect on suppliers .
26 He should really start thinking about double-checking a few things .
27 We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in .
28 In the BA and MA ( Religious Studies ) degrees the basic courses lead on to the Phenomenology and History of Religion , exploring in depth a wide range of issues across different religions .
29 As Melissa dropped a coin into the hat , receiving in return a courtly bow and a murmured , ‘ Muchas gracias , Señora ’ , a nearby clock struck eleven .
30 ‘ Behold your prince and sovereign ! ’ he cried , indicating his nephew and receiving in response a tumultuous roar of approval .
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