Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Esther , now , suddenly tired of the Italian economy , dismissed it and Charles ( 'You do n't seem to realize , Charles , that I live below the reach of the economy , as an economic unit I simply do n't exist' ) , and peremptorily turned on Liz , demanding to know details of the guest list . |
| 2 | Group chief facilitator said : ‘ Initially we have been successful in helping to establish teams in the personnel , training , public relations , sales and distribution departments at Barlaston , while Johnson Brothers have had five teams indifferent areas of the offices for some time now . ’ |
| 3 | Ronald Li , the former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange , was convicted on Oct. 24 on two counts under the colony 's Bribery Prevention Ordinance of accepting preferential offers of shares in Cathay Pacific Airways and Novel Enterprises in 1986 and 1987 in return for helping to obtain listings for the companies on the stock exchange . |
| 4 | The input of new seedlings was small and the number eventually contributing to mature rosettes in the pasture seemed insignificant in comparison with the contribution from clonal growth . |
| 5 | Though he took his professional plunge into the Ministry of Labour soon afterwards , Sisson also began writing , taking the outsider 's route by contributing to obscure journals of the heterodoxy . |
| 6 | The turn of the century saw Holroyd Smith manufacturing motor cars , his first experimental one appearing to incorporate parts off a Blackpool tram ! |
| 7 | ‘ Now we are looking to carry changes into the rest of the factory ’ , Tricia said . |
| 8 | The second group handles development tools , while the third ‘ complementary products ’ division is looking to promote parts of the Taligent technology for adoption on existing hardware . |
| 9 | The second group handles development tools , while the third ‘ complementary products ’ division is looking to promote parts of the Taligent technology for adoption on existing hardware . |
| 10 | The second group handles development tools , while the third ‘ complementary products ’ division is looking to promote parts of the Taligent technology for adoption on existing hardware . |
| 11 | Only big companies are looking to acquire premises in the recession , and it will be 12 months after the upturn before confidence returns to the commercial development sector , he said . |
| 12 | Furthermore , price-cutting can in some circumstances be anticompetitive : predatory pricing to drive out a rival or an entrant , or low prices seeking to mislead entrants about the efficiency of the incumbent firms are cases in point ( Milgrom and Roberts , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | But many white Americans were more concerned about the breakdown of law and order , and Congress reflected this view by refusing to grant funds for an elimination of ghetto conditions . |
| 14 | The editor-in-chief of Izvestia , the most respected national daily newspaper , also said legal action would be taken against the Speaker , for seeking to impose restrictions on the newspaper and employing ‘ Bolshevik psychology ’ to gag the press . |
| 15 | In a tract written in defence of the petitioners , Lord Somers , the Junto chief , bitterly inveighed against the House of Commons , accusing it of encroaching upon the executive powers of the Crown by seeking to impose punishments without the King 's authority . |
| 16 | Instead the queues have been forming to secure places on the landscape painting holidays Mr Waldie is running at the Esplanade Hotel , Scarborough . |
| 17 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 18 | The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs . |
| 19 | There 's fine enterprising young men like Richard Branson wanting to put trains on the line complete with champagne and bathrooms . |
| 20 | The five-point try has not stopped teams looking to put points on the board through taking kicks , though a bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush . |
| 21 | On the same page appeared a sharp rebuke to Ken Brown , an idiosyncratic professional golfer , who had committed the unforgivable sin of refusing to give interviews to the press or television and making good his escape from a crowd of journalists by vaulting over a barrier . |
| 22 | They responded by pushing hard into corporate finance , seeking to use shareholdings as a door-opener . |
| 23 | It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them , seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths . |
| 24 | He ended his talk by praising his staff for the way in which they were responding to students with special needs , particularly those with physical or sensory disabilities , who were increasingly seeking to pursue studies at the Darlington college . |
| 25 | ‘ We are getting substantial rent-free periods and are being offered large capital contributions ’ — a sum paid by the landlord to the tenant , usually for shopfitting to entice customers into the mall or high street . |
| 26 | But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers . |
| 27 | It was looking to forge partnerships with the council to try to realise development opportunities . |
| 28 | The Extraditables were seeking to force concessions from the government over a 1984 extradition treaty with the United States and over policy towards convicted traffickers [ for releases or killings of five hostages since January 1991 see pp. 37957 ; 38001 ] . |
| 29 | For centuries , humans stared upwards into space , seeking to uncover mysteries beyond the Earth , before they had even explored the limits of its surface . |
| 30 | Prokofiev , in the final piece of the evening , showed what to do with that kind of thing : his Overture on Hebrew themes , written in 1919 for a group pretending to raise funds for a conservatory in Jerusalem but in fact trying to feed themselves , just sets the tunes in a concise sonata form , and preserves all their humour and charm with hardly a suspicion of the composer intruding . |