Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although according to the Manpower Services Commission 2 out 3 people get jobs after the Youth Training Scheme , this varies again between schemes and between regions . |
| 2 | Although remaining on the statute books , Nemery 's version had not been applied since 1985 . |
| 3 | Are not 51 days in the Gulf more of a training exercise than running around the sand dunes at Barry with thunderflashes ? |
| 4 | So I 'm telling you Mr that I 'm not unemployed because according to the Government figures I am not . |
| 5 | Only four of the 77 passengers were slightly injured while escaping from the emergency exits but the aircraft was badly damaged . |
| 6 | Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive . |
| 7 | Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard . |
| 8 | A major blunder was caused because , while negotiating with the coal miners over their pay demands , a significant error was made in calculating the true level of previous pay awards and various overtime rates . |
| 9 | But within six months John was spotted by a Luton talent scout while playing in a county schools match and moved south to Kenilworth Road . |
| 10 | He 's fighting for fitness after fracturing his kneecap while playing in the winter tests against New Zealand … so how is Syd … when 's he coming back to bowl … here 's a special report from Nick Clark |
| 11 | Edwards clocked his best 100 metres time , a wind assisted 10.63 seconds , while preparing for the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand two years ago . |
| 12 | Residents of the City of Westminster , while falling into the catchment areas of three different health districts , did not have recourse to admissions to any long-stay hospitals after the closure of Banstead in 1986 . |
| 13 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 14 | Stories were told of whole communities sitting down and wailing the old tune whilst waiting for the slave masters to arrive and incarcerate their bodies and souls . |
| 15 | The way labour is organized — the division of labour — is itself seen as depending upon the wage levels , the availability of different skills and the extent of unionization . |
| 16 | WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets . |
| 17 | Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur . |
| 18 | They stood arm-in-arm , back to the traffic , as though looking over the railway lines , and Alice , holding the spray low down , wrote , " We Are All … " which is as far as she could go without having to move . |
| 19 | An example word supercilious , compiled from simulated data ( 244,140,625 complete candidate strings ) was tested using the old method of complete string look-up ( 7 hours and 48 minutes processing time ) , and the new letter by letter look-up ( 13 seconds processing time ) — these figures include the time taken to build the tree structure as well as searching for the candidate strings . |
| 20 | At this early stage the caterpillars are fairly easy to find because while still quite small they live inside a silk canopy , which they spin around themselves when feeding on the nettle tops . |
| 21 | Then she thought of the Brownie Promise and the Brownie Law and the Brownie Motto , all of which she knew by heart and had often said aloud when riding along the country lanes , so that she would be able to say them if the wonderful day should come for her to join a Brownie Pack . |
| 22 | Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins . |
| 23 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 24 | The Bank of England as well as dealing with the discount houses , now also deals with the other firms or ‘ dealing counterparts ’ on this market . |
| 25 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 26 | Such alliances tend to be as fleeting as the chance encounters and re-encounters of fictional characters in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951–75 ) ; and the conversation of young friends , as potent in all likelihood as any literary influence there is , is largely beyond the reach of the historian , even the contemporary historian , except as guesswork . |
| 27 | Similarly Dalgety Spillers moved their flour mills to the outport of Avonmouth when shipping to the city docks became difficult . |
| 28 | You may find when shopping around the travel agents that most of them lay off their bets through Cresta who seem to have the inside curve . |