Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These invisible tabs , if not removed , are responsible for text mysteriously jumping to an unexpected position . |
| 2 | Historically , the emphasis on maintaining the initial capital invested in a public limited company derives from the causes célèbres of the nineteenth century , when creditors were swindled out of their debts by PLCs which distributed capital as income thus leaving insufficient assets to repay creditors . |
| 3 | But it is a ready-made blueprint for inequality just waiting to be copied by other reactionary governments . |
| 4 | This makes the total deflection which for light just grazing the Sun 's limb ( ) is 1.750 arcsec . |
| 5 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 6 | These include tightening coast guard regulations for mobile offshore drilling rigs ; revising operating manuals ; improving protective equipment on board and on standby vessels ; and installing permanent pumps to drain chain lockers on all new and existing rigs . |
| 7 | Whichever way you go , you 'll come across bar after bar all turning out the latest in pop videos and the odd cocktail or two ! |
| 8 | The Banbury Baptist Church who invited Millard Fuller here … believes this seed planting mission could lead to Habitat for Humanity eventually setting up a nationwide centre based in the town . |
| 9 | Neither of them had taken the slightest notice of my movements , except that Mr Parsons was already in my empty chair , and the two of them , with Ewen Mackay 's flask of whisky now standing between them , were talking about salmon fishing . |
| 10 | We get turned and cant pass back to Lukic unless its VERY safe , and even then he kicks it straight out of play so relieving the pressure on the opposition AND putting pressure on us . |
| 11 | Said a spokesman : ‘ There is a positive wind of change now blowing through the club . ’ |
| 12 | Several champagne houses , finding the confines of Champagne too restricting , have invested in sparkling wine production in California , New Zealand and Australia . |
| 13 | Oswald Parry , a tall , strong , blonde Welshman , with a lock of hair perpetually curling across his wide forehead , came to Crystal Palace from Wimbledon in the summer of 1931 . |
| 14 | Information on the credit terms and methods of payment currently applying to particular business sectors in the foreign market . |
| 15 | We are of necessity constantly breaking the rules and thereby committing sin , but some kinds of offence are more disturbing than others . |
| 16 | However 1980 , it seemed , just might represent a genuine national shift towards conservatism thereby providing the underpinning for a new alignment of electoral forces to replace the Democratic coalition founded by Franklin Roosevelt . |
| 17 | But of course simply having refrigerators which can hold food at between 0 and +5 degrees C is n't enough . |
| 18 | The bit which of course basically going eight per cent . |
| 19 | The local residents were of course only exercising their rights under the 1870 Education Act , which allowed the establishment of School Boards . |
| 20 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 21 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 22 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 23 | ‘ Last I heard , the Eiffel Tower had n't collapsed and neither had Rome been sacked by pagans because of money perhaps changing hands in return for playing rugby ’ , he says . |
| 24 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 25 | The Lele are subsistence cultivators , growing maize , ground-nuts , and raffia palms from whose fronds they weave mats which are used as a special currency — a rare case of money really growing on trees . |
| 26 | Ianthe was disconcerted , even a little shocked , to see the bottles of milk still standing outside the door of her uncle 's Mayfair rectory when she arrived there to luncheon on Quinquagesima Sunday . |
| 27 | The only circumstances under which it would be possible to remove the National Government were those which actually arose in May 1940 : " A new situation might arise of course , if any considerable number of Members of Parliament now supporting the Government . |
| 28 | Maura closed her eyes , a knot of fear already forming in her stomach . |
| 29 | The future Quaker abolitionist , James Cropper of Liverpool , accepted the necessity ‘ for a humble , dependent state of mind naturally arising from the knowledge of the superior wisdom and goodness of the will and ways of God to our own ’ and found gloom about the future banished . |
| 30 | Did she imagine a faint degree of tension suddenly evaporating from Guy Sterne 's cool , enigmatic expression ? |