Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government believed it more important to balance public investment against private investment by keeping their discount rates in line than to balance overall investment against consumption by using a test discount rate closer to the rate at which consumers would swap current for future consumption . |
| 2 | Zoe tried to explain , keeping her voice low on account of the boy : she 'd thought Lowell was in love with a Victorian photograph — and that was crazy . |
| 3 | Not only that , but he was returning her stare measure for measure . |
| 4 | He grinned , deriding her patent lack of enthusiasm , and said ruthlessly , ‘ You 'll have to brave it sooner or later . ’ |
| 5 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 6 | This is your Comprehensive Motor Cycle Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 7 | This is your Caravan Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 8 | This is your Western European Caravan Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 9 | This is your MotorOptions Comprehensive Private Car Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 10 | This is your MotorOptions Comprehensive Private Car Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 11 | This is your MotorOptions Third Party Fire and Theft Private Car Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 12 | This is your MotorOptions Third Party Only Private Car Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 13 | This is your Western European ( This are will display the cover chosen ) Private Car Insurance Policy , explaining your insurance protection in detail . |
| 14 | We will phase these in gradually by applying our Energy Tax to petrol , while at the same time graduating Vehicle Excise Duty and Car Tax according to fuel efficiency — so that the most efficient vehicles pay least . |
| 15 | Others publishers , with an eye on longterm prosperity , perhaps even survival , may wish to start building their launch pads from scratch and without delay . |
| 16 | I shall be telling the Lancashire electors about the fact that the Tory party is financing its election campaign with money from Hong Kong , with £2 million from a Greek fascist and £440,000 from Asil Nadir — money which he stole from his company — and will the chairman of the Tory party — |
| 17 | The Bank in this case endorses the change by bringing its intervention rates in line with the new base rate . |
| 18 | The Biro is by nature a celibate creature which resents spilling its vinle essence upon paper . |
| 19 | Every now and again one of these vehicles swings out and surges past , splattering her side windows with filth and making the little Renault stagger under the impact of displaced air . |
| 20 | Everybody rushed to clear the remains of the banquet away , filling their carrier bags with chicken legs , sausages and currant buns , the lads from the nail factory draining the glasses and bottles in a last minute celebration . |
| 21 | Accountants Price Waterhouse , replacing its minicomputer systems with PC networks , chose direct-sold Dell PCs for the network terminals , but ultra-reliable dealer-supplied Hewlett Packards as file servers . |
| 22 | Sid was sitting on the roof of his trench soaking his camouflage square with petrol from the jerry can . |
| 23 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 24 | The letter acknowledges me as a mature and responsible individual , always paying my credit-card account on time . |
| 25 | Masri , however , presenting his policy statement to parliament on July 11 , had insisted that " we are a continuation of previous administrations " . |
| 26 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 27 | By training a teacher of the deaf , the latter was celebrating his silver jubilee as superintendent missioner at Leeds during the year of the Cardiff Congress . |
| 28 | While you were deceiving your husband Proopsie with lawyer Phillip Levy , he was all the time deceiving you with his true love , Meli . |
| 29 | Here are some well tried checklist questions that can help you think out ways of improving your power base for negotiating . |
| 30 | With trousers restored to the rightful owner we proceeded to track the suspicious craft , informing our shore patrol by radio and deploying their car to Swanage bay towards which our target was obviously heading . |