Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 2 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 3 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 5 | His trunk swelled up to resemble that of a baobab tree , matching for bulk the whitewashed curvature of the charcoal oven that dominated the restaurant . |
| 6 | William set sail late on 27 September 1066 , landing near Pevensey the following morning with little apparent opposition . |
| 7 | Thenceforth Waismann acted as the spokesman for Wittgenstein 's point of view within the Vienna Circle , representing with Schlick the conservative wing in the evolution of logical positivism . |
| 8 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 9 | Peg sat rigid her basket on her lap , knitting forgotten , keeping in check the smouldering anger inside her . |
| 10 | It rightly adds that the exercise of such a right must be done ‘ while keeping in mind the necessary unity of the whole Church ’ , but also that a ‘ strict observance of this traditional principle is among the prerequisites for any restoration of unity ’ . |
| 11 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |
| 12 | Torquay 's Paul Hall swung a frustrated punch at midfielder Steve Harrower , who reacted by appearing to head-butt the young winger . |
| 13 | I 've been knocking on doors the other night there . |
| 14 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 15 | This suggests , for example , that a new two-year bond issued at par would have to have a coupon of 10.25 per cent and that for a three-year bond ( with annual coupons ) trading at par the following equality holds ( see ( 5.10 ) ) : demonstrating that the YTM and the coupon are identical when a bond is trading at par . |
| 16 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 17 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 18 | ( Miranda was n't very big , and she was looking for people the same size as her . ) |
| 19 | It is seen as extending horizons , the means for communicating between generations the accumulated wisdom of a culture , offering opportunities to engage in more abstract context-independent learning . |
| 20 | On the whole , George Milton is a good , honest man who has a difficult life to lead , looking after Lennie the simple giant . |
| 21 | Once the body had been viewed by members of the Privy Council and others to confirm that life had ceased and that the king was dead , word went out to summon the surgeons , apothecaries and wax chandlers ‘ to do their duties in spurging , cleansing , bowelling , searing , embalming , furnishing and dressing with spices the said corpse ’ . |
| 22 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 23 | Rather , being quasi-research activities , they are a means of promoting in students the higher-order thinking and reflection that are characteristic of a higher education . |
| 24 | While Bonnie Dundee was establishing in Scotland the Jacobite tradition of romantic failure a different legend was being born in Ireland , that of ‘ No surrender ’ , the slogan adopted by the protestant defenders of Londonderry . |
| 25 | If all goes according to plan the first stage will cost about $7m a day . |
| 26 | According to Eccleshall the Conservative Party , like Faust , has always been able to declare ‘ Two souls together live in my breast ’ , with the philosophy of a strong , paternalist authority competing with the notion of a strong , non-interventionist authority . |
| 27 | According to experts the other trick … is just to slow down . |
| 28 | Due to ship in 1994 , with an estimated product turnaround time of 90 days , the monster nCube 3 follows the same architecture as the previous nCube 2 models , enabling software compatibility across the range — the nCube president insists the new machine ‘ uses no magic ’ , and claims a full 65,000-processor configuration will be completely feasible — according to Meirer the whole thing would measure just 20 square feet , compared with Thinking Machines Inc 's Sparc-based TeraFLOPS-performance CM-5 which is estimated by Thinking 's Danny Hillis to measure the size of a tennis court in full 16,000-processor configuration . |
| 29 | According to G.B.S. the last thing of importance that had happened in this agricultural community was , perhaps , the Flood . |
| 30 | ( According to Worsley the associated notion of a ‘ pressure group ’ forms the bridge between formal and informal politics . ) |