Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This survey showed three pairs of Rock Pipits nesting in the cliffs east of Hastings , and 42 pairs on the chalk cliffs . |
| 2 | Looking through the contents list of the first edition of Observations , I cam across the following titles — ‘ Money from SOED ’ , ‘ Local Authority Support for Teacher Research ’ , ‘ Classroom Observation ’ and ‘ Your Observations ’ , and I realised that the report of a small scale study which I recently submitted to RIU contained all these features . |
| 3 | PLANNERS are paying only lip service to new Government initiatives to keep young people on the land and in countryside jobs , according to the Farmers Union of Wales . |
| 4 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 5 | Chaot was racing in the CHS division of the ARC and her slot on the notice board was occupied by ‘ DNF ’ . |
| 6 | Police said 26-year-old Amanda Glazier from Wales , who is an experienced skier and keen walker , sprained both ankles after falling down a bank while hiking in the mountains north of Wellington . |
| 7 | Silicon Graphics Inc is getting into the fun-and-games end of the business in a big way and has formed a joint venture with Industrial Light & Magic , a division of George Lucas 's Lucas Digital Ltd special effects production company : the new venture will create digital imagery for the entertainment industry . |
| 8 | I shall argue that the attractions of foundationalism , whatever they may be , do not derive from the theory of meaning which underlies it ; in fact , the most acceptable form of theory of meaning is noticeably lacking in the features characteristic of foundationalism , and supports instead an alternative epistemology , coherentism . |
| 9 | Joining Anderson Green in 1949 , he worked in the Inward Freight Department and Hotel Services Accountants of Orient Line before moving to the Accounts Department of Passenger Division following the P&O/Orient Line merger in 1960 . |
| 10 | Mike Chittenden … recovering in the burns unit of a Mersey hospital |
| 11 | Within a dozen yards , I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar . |
| 12 | Our brief was to visit all the oil-related ports and anchorages to assess the impact that the extra traffic was having on the Customs work of these areas . |
| 13 | The crowd were streaming away , muttering about a Rovers run of one win in 11 matches , when Birch hit a hopeful 30-yarder with the match 45 seconds into injury-time . |
| 14 | She was always clutching a fistful of sweets or biting into a between-meals snack of bread and condensed milk or scraping out bowls in which Aunt Margaret had mixed cake . |
| 15 | Thus the severe animosity against Jews culminating in the Aliens Act of 1905 , a product of what Bernard Gainer calls ‘ The Anti-Alien Mentality ’ ( 1972 , chapter 5 ) did not prevent sport 's patrons delighting at the scores of immigrants seeking material rewards through boxing . |
| 16 | After initially resisting the suspension , he and several hundred armed supporters went into hiding in the mountains north of Tuguegarao , the provincial capital of Cagayan . |
| 17 | I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that . |
| 18 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 19 | James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury 's . |
| 20 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 21 | UK , Leeds-based VisonWare Ltd 's mystery announcement ( UX No 389 ) turned out to be a technology partnership with fellow UK company Alex Technologies Ltd , Ealing , West London : the two are working on a Windows version of Alex development environment , which currently allows an X-Windows front end to be added to character-based applications . |
| 22 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |