Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 2 | People living near a new flats development in Sun Street , Darlington , complained to Darlington council about the noise and mess caused by builders . |
| 3 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 4 | People living in a nearby travellers camp were woken by the crash , they describe the scene as something from a nightmare . |
| 5 | MARTIN Bormann , one of Adolf Hitler 's top aides who dropped from sight after the Second World War , died of stomach cancer in Paraguay in 1959 , according to a confidential police report published in Asuncion yesterday . |
| 6 | Two South Africans and a Swazi were arrested after the discovery of the country 's largest arms haul , according to a Swazi police statement of March 9 , 1990 . |
| 7 | One reason is the ninety two percent approval rating it gets from victims of crime , according to a local police survey . |
| 8 | We must be looking at a general systems failure . |
| 9 | The men , very handsome and as many of them blond as dark , gathered at the back of the plane , embracing each other and eyeing Perdita with approval and chattering like a great drinks party . |
| 10 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 11 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Notors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 12 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 13 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Motors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 14 | The proportion of cases among those with missing data was disproportionately higher in the Maori group , leading to a greater odds ratio when compared with the non-Maori children ( univariate odds ratio of those with full data was 3.42 and for those without full data 4.60 ) . |
| 15 | Semi-contact sparring at a martial arts club is an excellent way of simulating the real thing . |
| 16 | The UN Security Council , convened at the request of France on Sept. 25 , adopted Resolution 713 sponsored by Belgium , France and the UK calling for a complete arms embargo on Yugoslavia and the immediate cessation of hostilities and requesting the Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to assist with mediation . |
| 17 | Black community representatives in Watts were among those calling for a decisive police response . |
| 18 | After robotisation the job became less skilled , was machine paced in that the cycle time was dictated by the speed at which the robot did the welding , and the human part of the job was filled by a semi-skilled operator belonging to a general trades union . |
| 19 | Local authorities , including Buckinghamshire , Hereford and Worcester , Coventry , Mid Glamorgan and several London Boroughs , are co-operating with a continuing police investigation . |
| 20 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 21 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 22 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 23 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 24 | The columns were part of an octastyle portico , each 48 feet high and standing on a 22 feet podium . |
| 25 | To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant . |
| 26 | Booth will be hoping for a Private Greens league singles championship , and then an Irish one to put him in the frame for Commonwealth Games selection . |
| 27 | He went on from Harrow ( County Boys ' ) to Peterhouse , Cambridge , leaving with a first-class honours degree in history . |
| 28 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 29 | When Italy entered the war he served as a lieutenant in the army , and , later , as a lieutenant-commander in the navy , working as a military communications consultant . |
| 30 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |