Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friday evening was spent mastering rhythm-changes on the piano and weaving cheerfully around the furniture in an Edinburgh tenement , and on Saturday and Sunday we all camped out in a School Dance Studio for movement sessions . |
| 2 | Waiting for the Home Office pathologist , SOCO spent his time drawing plans of the room and ‘ taking a few tapings ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ But they are not producing programmes to the extent that we would like . |
| 4 | Measuring 10′6″ × 9′3″ having central heating radiator and windows enjoying views over the side and rear . |
| 5 | I see wide attackers being allowed to come inside for shots , centre-backs who do not appear to have a clue about positional play and plenty of evidence to suggest that we are no longer producing defenders with the ability and confidence to cope on their own . ’ |
| 6 | The UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) , which is also backing the forestry project , is demanding checkpoints on the road and improved security to protect the reserve . |
| 7 | The Input/Output Interface contains one or more chips for handling signals between the computer and other devices , such as disk drives , printers and visual display units ( VDU 'S ) . |
| 8 | For 20 of the next 30 years OCA and Wings Aviation Limited flew ‘ DRD out of Red Lake , using floats for the summer and Noorduyn-designed streamlined skis during the winter . |
| 9 | They were disputing strategies for the resistance and drinking red wine from France — sour claret , which had proved hard to sell . |
| 10 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
| 11 | Expos 'd in a True Picture of [ Jeremy Collier ] ( 1704 ) by Thomas Brown , or Hypocrisie Unmasked , the title of two works with American associations , one published in 1646 by Edward Winslow relating grievances by the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gordon of Rhode Island , the other published in 1776 with the subtitle or , A short inquiry into the religious complaints of our American colonies . |
| 12 | Four unions representing workers in the health and public services are working together to re-evaluate and up-grade so-called ‘ women 's ’ jobs , thus moving towards equal pay ( Guardian , 1986 , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | Make yer mind up time : Laughing Hyenas at the Marquee or Mark Eitzel at the bleedin' Knitting Factory again ? |
| 14 | Reorganisation of both storage and seating arrangements in the class or specialist teaching room may be constrained by the size of the room itself and the size of the class in it , but even so it may be possible to improve the present situation by looking at it purely in terms of its current , rather than traditional , use . |
| 15 | Well I mean , everybody goes to Robert does their off shore survival which takes you into helicopter survival and l launching lifeboats off the platform and life rafts ev and er that done I mean you get your certificates and what not for that and everybody is to get refresher courses every two or three years , I 'm not really sure which . |
| 16 | ‘ . The report concluded with the girl denying suggestions from the defence that ‘ she was a willing sexual partner , and made-up the story because of fears about her parent 's reaction ’ . |
| 17 | Murray arrives in time to devise a programme for the forthcoming Festival and to supervise an ambitious campaign of refurbishment which includes opening windows at the front and on top of the building and cleaning its stone façade . |
| 18 | The humble Sunday roast , or Friday 's fish and chips , are becoming meals of the past as food technology is recognised as big business . |
| 19 | The principal weakness in the sense of community when Marshall gave his lectures was the class system , and his emphasis on the social element of citizenship was directed largely at counteracting divisions in the community that would otherwise be caused by class inequalities . |
| 20 | They said they were conscious of their extreme good fortune in becoming custodians of the island and intended to preserve its traditions and beauty . |
| 21 | There are quiet riverside nooks for meditation , wild flowers in the meadows and woodland glades , subjects galore for the artist and photographer , entrancing paths for the walker and a fine array of a score of challenging peaks for the mountaineer . |
| 22 | While for high-income earners this welfare will cover subsidies ranging from the cost of housing , acquiring shares in the company and towards the cost of housing , the most important benefit , both in terms of the numbers of workers covered , and its value , is the occupational pension . |
| 23 | In the case of a public bid , the suspensory requirement does not prevent a bidder from acquiring shares in the target as long as the bidder does not exercise the voting rights attaching to the shares . |
| 24 | Secondly , the purchaser will require the surveyor to assess potential liabilities under repairing obligations in the lease and in particular for dilapidations . |
| 25 | When the sequence of the single stranded DNA binding elements from the adipsin and growh hormone promoter ( 15 , 16 ) are compared with that of the PPT element some sequence homology emerges ( Fig. 5 ) in particular a core of CCNGG . |
| 26 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 27 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 28 | Swire intended to make it into a top-class regional airline serving cities in the East and Australia . |
| 29 | Priests continued to act as sponsors of the local catholic — nationalist political structure , chairing meetings of the party and permitting the political use of the parish hall . |
| 30 | The wind scored shivering channels through the ling and bilberries , the growth of fine , dry grass . |