Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 3 | Instead of sprayer operators having to pour out chemicals by hand , he figured , why not fit a syringe system that keeps man and chemical well apart ? |
| 4 | My major concern about the Maastricht negotiations relates to the limited majority decision making envisaged for foreign policy . |
| 5 | I can see case by case judgments arising based on the precise nature of the services or their scale as a whole , but those are judgments on the facts rather than the framework for general rule-making . |
| 6 | The unlikelihood of base level having fallen rapidly between terraces and remaining absolutely constant while terraces were being cut . |
| 7 | Instead he was back in Sheffield Shield ranks looking to recover form by the time the fifth Test had begun . |
| 8 | Mr Trout was active on a personal level and was pictured in the San Francisco Chronicle trying to dress animals in the city zoo . |
| 9 | ‘ People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street . ’ |
| 10 | The fact that a person is aware of a notice or contract term purporting to exclude another 's liability for negligence is not to be taken as indicating a voluntary assumption of any risk ( s2(3) ) . |
| 11 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 12 | ‘ Our free newspapers continue to perform well with the North West Echo having got off to an excellent start . ’ |
| 13 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 14 | Anti-road campaigners called for the government to guarantee long-term protection for Oxleas Wood and pointed out that the change of mind did not necessarily signal a change of policy , with the government 's £23,000 million roads programme continuing to threaten 160 sites of special scientific interest , many of them more valuable than Oxleas Wood . |
| 15 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 16 | Libby was Jim Hawkins going to warn the Squire and Dr Livesey , she pushed aside the ferns . |
| 17 | Margaret Ely from New York , on the other hand , was equally compelling in providing many specific examples of both beginning and more seasoned action researchers struggling to create and reflect upon their own writing . |
| 18 | Moreover , these successes have to be set beside the less successful regeneration projects attempting to replicate the well known formula in cities such as Richmond ( Virginia ) , Toledo ( Ohio ) and Flint ( Michigan ) , all of which are faltering ( Guskind , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | This section is not as deprived of light nor as gloomy as it once was , tree felling and gale damage having left gaps through which there are glimpses of the loch below , and the road has been cured of the hazards that beset the early travellers . |
| 20 | We were proud to welcome Wayne C. Fairbrother who survived after 188 days wandering round a Birmingham multi-storey car park trying to remember where he had left his blue Sierra . |
| 21 | In fact a lady who looked like Mae West was hiding in the phone box at the car park waiting to see him as we came along tonight . |
| 22 | On Feb. 16 Vellayati held talks in Moscow with Bessmertnykh , and Aziz flew to Moscow on Feb. 17 , after first crossing by road into Iran ( coalition commanders having announced that they could not guarantee his safety in Iraqi airspace ) . |
| 23 | What started out as a loyal band of Kylie watchers has now grown into a legion of Wannabes : teenage girls who spend all their waking hours trying to dress , talk and sing like Kylie . |
| 24 | The authorities also resorted to economic sanctions including tax raids and the seizure of the property of those defaulting on taxes , and the issuing of special identity cards to adults in the Gaza Strip seeking to work in Israel . |
| 25 | The DIA was worried about DEA personnel getting caught up in secret intelligence missions , he explained . |
| 26 | In the early hours of Nov. 23 the budget was passed by 186 votes to 10 , with seven abstentions , all opposition deputies having declined to take part . |
| 27 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 28 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing LAN-based multiplatform e-mail products hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter rollout . |
| 29 | And everyone froze at the Las Vegas meeting to view triumphant Nina 's outfit . |
| 30 | THE MURDER trial of the nurse Beverley Allitt will continue , in spite of weight loss having made her too weak to attend court . |