Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke set down his thoughts in brief notes on raiding parties carried by ship to the French coast and drawn from a special force . |
| 2 | W H Smith is celebrating four ‘ best ever ’ signing sessions held in shops in Europe and the UK , all courtesy of survivors of the Beirut hostage crisis Brian Keenan , John McCarthy and Jill Morrell . |
| 3 | The skills required to manoeuvre flask transporters obviously stood Adam Luke , from Torness , in good stead when he entered the Scottish lorry driving championships held at SECC in Glasgow recently . |
| 4 | The Department of the Environment has published the results of a study investigating the impact of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 on resolving problems faced by leaseholders in flats . |
| 5 | The analysis will focus on the policy debates , common law rules , and statutory and regulatory provisions regarding the use and legal sufficiency of the Chinese Wall in resolving problems associated with conflicts of interest and duty in corporate entities . |
| 6 | A CRITICAL EDITION has a named editor , who tries to make the text the best possible version , and will usually include footnotes or appendices explaining decisions taken about words in the text . |
| 7 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 8 | And now Toni lives in Magaluf — once a tiny village where even islanders rarely visited , now a sprawling mess of neon , curry burgers and chips , the Benny Hill and Linekers bars , and holidaying Brits drunk in charge of a limited vocabulary . |
| 9 | While the parent television company has experienced serious delays with the supply of a vital set of electronic chips made by ITT , Datavision will be using chips made by Philips of the Netherlands and Plessey of the UK . |
| 10 | Candidates for discarding might be hunting trophies willed to museums by former benefactors . |
| 11 | Guy stood still , glittering eyes narrowed on Isabel for a long , tense minute . |
| 12 | Section 1 gives absolute protection against any civil or criminal action to anyone publishing papers printed by order of Parliament . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm choosing to assume completely my responsibility , ’ declared Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti , after delivering a 20-page document , detailing bribes paid by Olivetti over the last 15 years as political favours to the Mani Pulite — Clean Hands — investigating judges in Milan on Sunday . |
| 14 | Cascading systems composed of chains of subsystems which are dynamically linked by a cascade of mass or energy so that output from one subsystem becomes the input for the adjacent subsystem . |
| 15 | The atmosphere , oceans and landsurfaces are considered as a series of cascading systems connected by flows of mass or energy . |
| 16 | The Prince of the Asturias was in contact with this aristocratic opposition , publishing caricatures distributed in taverns in order to discredit his father 's court and the favourite around which it centred . |
| 17 | Using guitars equipped in turn with single coils and humbuckers and referring to the handbook 's suggested settings for guidance , I was able to access some excellently chunky rhythm sounds and quite respectable non-gothic lead tones into the bargain . |
| 18 | After an abortion and faced with mounting debts , France began paying cheques intended for consultants into her own account . |
| 19 | In this chapter we shall discuss some numerical methods for solving problems formulated in terms of matrices . |
| 20 | Volvo on the other hand is testing buses fitted with filters like dustbins , which are cleaned at the end of a day . |
| 21 | Of these imaging studies performed before presentation to hospital , four ( 21% ) barium meal examinations gave false negative results in group A while six ( 14% ) barium meal examinations and 10 ( 31% ) ultrasound scans gave false negative results in group B. Of the studies done at the hospital , one ( 4% ) barium meal examination in group A and two ( 5% ) barium meal examinations and one ( 3% ) ultrasound scan in group B gave false negative results . |
| 22 | During the midday meal the older children read edifying passages chosen by Nicholas from religious or secular history . |
| 23 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 24 | The bridge across the Öresund was opposed by Finland , which had lodged an objection at the International Court of Justice on the grounds that its 65-metre clearance would be insufficient to allow the passage of oil drilling rigs manufactured by shipyards in the region . |
| 25 | Subtle but damning variations of idiolect are unlikely to count for much in a country where people go around wearing tee-shirts inscribed with things like ‘ The essence of brave 's aerial adventure : the flight 's academy of the American east club with the traditional gallery of Great Britain diesel ’ . |
| 26 | Any spontaneous pull to which he yields ( for example , a proneness due to laziness to exaggerate the difficulty of getting things done in time for the earlier flight ) will merely bias his judgement ; in the pure choice of means you either choose rationally or surrender to the spontaneous . |
| 27 | Several people wearing masks connected by tubes to cylinders strapped to their backs pulled levers and inspected moving parts of the machine . |
| 28 | The design right does not apply to designs recorded ( or having articles made in respect of them ) prior to 1st August 1989 . |
| 29 | Furthermore mixing experiments based on combinations of extracts from Raji and RJ2.2.5 excluded the presence of an inhibitor of binding in Raji nuclear extracts ( M. N. Ombra , unpublished results ) . |
| 30 | language work of various kinds , involving the drawing together of evidence , descriptions of artefacts , writing stories , recording observations based on trips to museums and local environment |