Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new sanctions seek to prevent Serbs buying goods abroad using money laundered in , for example , Cyprus . |
| 2 | Gaughan lost the ball to Lightfoot midway inside the Chester half , the defender put a delightful ball forward which cut out Smith and O'Shaughnessy , allowing Rimmer to race through and lash the ball past the helpless Prudhoe . |
| 3 | ANARAP 's main objective is to facilitate grassroots participation in the democratic process by helping groups to set up and operate community radios . |
| 4 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 5 | using ultrasound to break up kidney stones |
| 6 | And you were just inventing errands to stay around . ’ |
| 7 | Whereas the shelter drawings had shown recumbent figures in still poses of monumental vulnerability , in the mines Moore faced new challenges : ‘ There was first the difficulty of seeing forms emerging out of deep darkness , the problem of conveying the claustrophobic effects of countless pit-props … receding into blackness , and of expressing the gritty , grubby smears of black coal-dust on the miners ’ bodies at the same time as the anatomy underneath ’ . |
| 8 | Aunt Margaret began energetically to applaud , nudging Melanie to join in with her . |
| 9 | Seeing birds close up and handling them was a vital part of my education . |
| 10 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 11 | A LAW allowing courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Mr Clarke . |
| 12 | And now the Forestry Commission is using shirehorses to thin out part of the ancient woodland at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | Then he turned , and with a little gesture of farewell crossed the highway and headed back towards Lima , a small , shambling figure glancing back every now and then in search of a truck that would give him a lift . |
| 14 | Using data collected over a 2-year period from plots under a variety of management techniques , ranging from maize cultivation to a range of pasture grasses , they report that soil erosion and nutrient losses were greatest from maize ( Zea mays ) and guinea grass ( Panicum maximum Jacq. ) plots . |
| 15 | If , when you arrive at the interview you find you are early or there is a delay , do n't just sit around allowing tension to build up inside you . |
| 16 | Two associated berths , one equipped with two pneumatic grain elevators were also completed allowing vessels drawing up to 9.6 metres ordinary spring tides to discharge to the new facility . |
| 17 | The librarian has also found that close examination of data required in producing databases brings about an awareness of bias and the development of objective criticism . |
| 18 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 19 | The Tories proposed the idea of allowing schools to opt out to enable them to get away from ‘ loony left'authorities . |
| 20 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 21 | The reception , in a vast lightwell running north-south , is constantly catching light reflected down on the arcade of shops and a cafe beneath where patients may , in effect , ‘ go out ’ . |
| 22 | Bobbing lanterns wove in and out of the goods trains in the College Rail Yard . |
| 23 | His round beaming face with bushy eyebrows and a mop of greying hair sweeping back like a mane from a high forehead was arresting . |
| 24 | At the RSPCA 's Centenary Conference in Oxford , a tall slim woman with greying hair drawn back in a pony tail , unobtrusively dressed in a shirt and slacks , came to the podium . |
| 25 | Trading vessels went down the canal every week to Grimsby and Hull and every month to London . |
| 26 | Landing gear torn off by stone wall during forced landing |
| 27 | For example , today 's Daily Mail decided to have on its front page — coincidence I am certain — to go with the Bill : ’ Cheating Refugee Rang Up £117,000 Phone Bill ’ . |
| 28 | Before the result was announced , two deputies representing Taiwan stood up and shouted out their opposition to the £6 billion hydro-electric and flood control scheme , before storming out . |
| 29 | Five Railway Cup medals with Ulster and representing Ireland stand out as the highpoints of Jim Reilly 's marvellous career . |
| 30 | The US Congress has dreamed up the Mary Whitehouse chip , a circuit that the television industry would be required to build into television sets , enabling parents to block out programmes coded for violent content : according to Associated Press , the chip was thought up by Representative Edward Markey , a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications — the parent could just push the v-block button on the remote control and keep violent programming out of the home , ’ he said reckoning that if only 10% or 15% of all homes started blocking programmes , broadcasters and advertisers would soon get the message . |