Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He increased significantly the number of Russians travelling to the West and the number of skilled foreigners settling in Russia . |
| 2 | The treaty would be submitted to a meeting of states participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in Paris in November 1990 . |
| 3 | Last October , just before a visit to Hong Kong by a Chinese team of experts looking into the airport , the Hong Kong government suddenly announced that a bridge that is a big part of the project would be paid for entirely with public money ; before , it had said the bridge would be private . |
| 4 | Much of this land was uninhabited , and for a variety of reasons ranging from the incidence of tsetse fly to the competing claims of different clans , farmers were reluctant to move into it . |
| 5 | The rap of coins falling on the staging overhead stopped . |
| 6 | I am disappointed with the volume of calls resulting from the campaign and the number of fact packs which were issued . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding the low number of calls resulting from the campaign I would agree that individual taxpayers appreciated the information point which they could contact to deal with enquiries . |
| 8 | ‘ Lord , there is a body of riders approaching from the west . |
| 9 | We passed through Tembladera , a scattering of houses clinging to the mountain side . |
| 10 | Some early maps of this type show , albeit crudely , the kinds of houses existing at the time of drafting , and it is possible to appreciate the difference between the houses of , say , the more well-to-do freeholder and the lowlier tenant . |
| 11 | ‘ … for many years after the time named in this Ramble , Great College Street — beyond the terrace of houses extending to the entrance of Messrs. Goodall 's existing premises — was totally impassable even as a footpath in the winter . |
| 12 | I was recently filming there with the BBC 's Country File and we spoke to some local farmers who said there were often queues of cyclists waiting at the start of the route for 5pm to come . |
| 13 | The variability of patterns resulting from the use of different volumes of hydrogen peroxide also argued against further use of this technique . |
| 14 | Within the general array of conflicts arising from the pursuit of national interests there was until recently one predominant conflict , crucial so far as the possibility of nuclear war is concerned , between the US and the Soviet Union , and their respective allies or client states , which affected directly or indirectly all international relationships . |
| 15 | Foxgloves form the foreground of my design this month , with sunflowers reaching up to the flocks of birds circling in the sky , above the cottage rooftops . |
| 16 | Steel met steel with a force that sent a nearby flock of birds shrieking into the air . |
| 17 | More recently the scale of this passage has been masked by the presence of birds wintering along the coast . |
| 18 | Autumn passage is difficult to disentangle from winter movements , which have been recorded immediately before severe weather , and the normal wanderings of birds wintering in the Channel . |
| 19 | Traffic screeched to a stop and dozens of people dashed to grab handfuls of notes swirling in the wind . |
| 20 | Inward migrants will include people who come into the district in order to do the jobs that are provided and there are many examples of employers coming to the town and bringing their own people into the town to do the jobs that are brought into the town . |
| 21 | I 'VE heard of prisoners going on the run to prove their innocence , but here 's a prisoner who says he 's on the run to prove his GUILT . |
| 22 | Our first sight of the restaurant was one of lanterns twinkling through the dusk . |
| 23 | She spent the next couple of hours staring into the darkness . |
| 24 | They will usually have to charge for these , but you may be reimbursed if you subsequently register with the agency or fulfil a certain number of hours working for the agency . |
| 25 | At the end of the row , their backs turned to all these visual riches , was a ring of donkey-boys squatting on the ground . |
| 26 | In October the Hamoaze was filled with ships bearing the first contingent of Canadians heading for the front . |
| 27 | Kath is a pretty dark-haired vivacious girl , whose flashing black eyes warn of the mass of complexities bubbling beneath the surface . |
| 28 | The crisis in the industry has now been reflected in the near-collapse of skills training in the sector . |
| 29 | By the time Mr Stephens came back , the snaps were almost done , the table was laid , crockery out , a split log burned on the fire , there was a neat pile of sticks drying in the grate , and tea went well . |
| 30 | If the Duke looks out from his eastern windows , he will see crowds of flames dancing among the tree trunks , a hundred fires and a dozen folk round every fire . ’ |