Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the thousands of fans still listening to Stones records today , it 's enough to know Brian Jones ' music . |
| 2 | I HAVE listened with great interest to those voices who do n't want the ‘ South African tour rebels ' ’ ban to be lifted , and it is clear to me that many of them are not expressing these views out of a sense of justice or respect for the millions of blacks still suffering in South Africa . |
| 3 | The level of foreign debt in the region , put by ECLAC at $416,000 million ( almost a 5 per cent reduction ) , continued to put a brake on economic recovery , with the net transfer of resources abroad amounting to $24,600 million ( over $200,000 million in the last eight years ) . |
| 4 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 5 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 6 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 7 | If our democracy is to retain popular support and respect , it seems vital that the 60pc of voters regularly voting for change are given some opportunity to bring their ideals and values to bear on society . |
| 8 | The number of Poles officially looking for work shot up from 9,600 in December to 220,000 last month . |
| 9 | The existence of organisms still living after millenia make mere centenarians seem insignificant . |
| 10 | And then the Stevedores , there were a lot of Stevedores here belonging to Stronsay . |