Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After struggling through umpteen games of blackjack , I would taxi home and sleep till 8 a.m. when the boys awoke . |
| 2 | One wheel operates via wooden rim gearing , driving through two sets of mill stones , no longer functional , the assembly supported on Gloucester manufactured cast iron pillars . |
| 3 | Defries looked upslope again , and there was Ace : a small figure leaping between two horns of rock at the summit . |
| 4 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |
| 5 | If you are booking within 8 weeks of departure you must pay the full cost of your holiday immediately . |
| 6 | Vehicles that can provide 100 kilometres of driving from 6 litres of fuel are on the market , as well as in manufacturers ' laboratories , but few people buy a car solely because of its fuel economy . |
| 7 | Although all those dying within six months of diagnosis had an initial CD4 of less than 0.11×10/l , three patients with CD4 counts below 0.05 have survived for 17 months or more . |
| 8 | The Cornmill 's central feature is a giant glazed atrium spanning almost ninety feet and consisting of 258 panes of glass . |
| 9 | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers : negative electrons and some positive particles , which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment . |
| 10 | The Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park , consisting of 1000 acres of land given over to ( amongst other things ) a working dairy farm , wildlife , a pets ' corner and an aviary for tropical birds , is only ten minutes ' drive away . |
| 11 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 12 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |
| 13 | ( 1986 ) report that 15 per cent of those aged 70+ living in two areas of South Wales displayed symptoms of anxiety . |
| 14 | START SAVING WITHIN 14 DAYS OF ORDER |
| 15 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 16 | Trinidad-born Lara batted with a blend of aggression and sound defence while capitalising on two slices of luck . |
| 17 | The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution . |
| 18 | In particular we shall be looking at three types of solution : gases in liquids , liquids in liquids , solids in liquids . |
| 19 | Caring for 6,000 years of history |
| 20 | ( The internationally recognised unit is that a ‘ rate one turn ’ involves turning through three degrees of arc in one second . ) |
| 21 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 22 | I also believe that designing further examination streams to determine the relevant specialist fields would be a waste of resources and , if implemented , would risk leading to two streams of membership . |
| 23 | In Comr. of Stamp Duties v. Bone [ 1976 ] 2 All E.R.354 at 360 ( P.C. ) Lord Russell , speaking for five Lords of Appeal , said : ‘ A debt can only be truly released and extinguished by agreement for valuable consideration or under seal . |
| 24 | The preference for defining competitive strength as current strength also arises out of the recognition that , if attainable status is used , there will be no clear separation on the matrix of established stars from potential stars , and this seems critical for distinguishing between two types of investment : major investment for the future and sufficient investment to maintain a market position . |
| 25 | He was fined £200 by Cardiff magistrates for smuggling in 1.32 grammes of cannabis . |
| 26 | EC stocks were reported as amounting to 100 days of consumption , implying a need for action . |
| 27 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 28 | The supreme court declined to hear a case involving a ton of gold recovered so far from the SS Central America , resting in 8,000 feet of water off the coast of South Carolina after being sunk by a hurricane in 1857 . |
| 29 | In fact he is asking for two kinds of help : aid to stop ongoing injury and aid to recover from the damage . |
| 30 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |