Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a prospect comes to the stand looking for literature , this should be an ideal opportunity for the salesperson to establish contact and obtain details of the prospect . |
| 2 | Gross profit doubled to C$19.6M. 91% of the company 's turnover is attributed to Corel Draw with the remainder coming from SCSI ( small computer system interface ) software-related business . |
| 3 | A number of part-time units derived 90–98% of their income from the farm with the remainder coming from contract work , usually carried out by the son for a little extra income . |
| 4 | Military expenditure therefore absorbed 70 per cent of revenues , and over half the country 's industry was at a standstill , the remainder working below capacity . |
| 5 | In total there are approximately 1,250 staff employed by the Press in the United Kingdom , 150 of these in Corby , 500 in the Oxford printing works , and the remainder working in publishing and group services in Oxford . |
| 6 | ‘ More to the point , as they struggle to find their way to the coast — having realised the nature of their predicament , pendant to an encounter with their hairy forefathers that will leave half their number blinded and trepanned and two-thirds of the remainder dying from blood poisoning — they will gradually come to see the uttermost folly of their own moral precepts , their spiritual baggage , their transcendental ballast . |
| 7 | An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to company insolvency and winding up ( including the winding up on companies that are not insolvent , and of unregistered companies ) ; enactments relating to the insolvency and bankruptcy of individuals ; and other enactments bearing on those two subject matters , including the functions and qualification of insolvency practitioners , the public administration of insolvency , the penalisation and redress of malpractice and wrongdoing , and the avoidance of certain transactions at an undervalue . |
| 8 | Costs in the accounts relating to Scheme 2 were not material . |
| 9 | In the Florence of the 1420s , says Michael Veseth , an American professor of economics , he would have been ‘ pretty much at home ’ with the institutions dealing with business and government finance . |
| 10 | The sample showed milk yields up from 18.6 litres a cow a day in April to 19.5 litres in May , with 75% of the milk coming from forage . |
| 11 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 12 | This project will cost £10,000 , with half of the money coming from Climb for the World . |
| 13 | Whilst there is so much contrary scientific opinion with regard to the dangers arising from asbestos dust , it is difficult to understands the IDA 's reliance upon the opinions of Professor McDonald when it is known that he derives a large share of his research funds from the asbestos industry itself . |
| 14 | The lives of countless millions of people have been made a misery through the conflicts arising from prejudice . |
| 15 | On the morning of Monday 16 September the mere approach of a small reconnaissance party firing pistols was enough to send the defenders fleeing in terror . |
| 16 | The Gascons demanded that such issues , which gravely threatened the liberty and hereditary rights of both Edward I and themselves , be settled by those they called ‘ common judges ’ or wardens ( esgardiatores ) who should judge the case according to marcher law . |
| 17 | ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned . |
| 18 | ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned . |
| 19 | Corporate lawyers managed to delay the case coming to court for two years and then they prolonged the proceedings for a further two years . |
| 20 | The centre manager later resigned after failing to stop the case going to court where Ben was put on probation . |
| 21 | A cost-benefit strategy first attempts to quantify the costs of all of the damage resulting from air pollutants and the costs of all known ways of controlling those pollutants , and then adopts the pollution control option(s) which minimizes the sum of pollution damage and pollution control costs . |
| 22 | UNHAPPY City boss Peter Reid left the field remonstrating with referee Ray Lewis after his side fell victim to a spirited Ipswich fightback . |
| 23 | But there is little chance of the Germans buying into Standard . |
| 24 | At the same time the government cancelled the debts existing between state controlled companies , which were estimated at between $3,000 million and $4,500 million . |
| 25 | In the Machilidae the gonangulum has not evolved , so that the appendages of the genital segments are rather similar to those of the pregenital region of the abdomen , with the gonapophyses corresponding in position to the eversible vesicles ( see p. 435 ) . |
| 26 | The deposit will be forfeited , and if less than 10% has been paid , there will usually be a clause in the contract providing for forfeiture of the full 10% . |
| 27 | From our own research and study of reports of the IIRS relating to asbestos , it would appear that the IDA and IIRS are using outdated information in compiling their recommendations . |
| 28 | They grade the proposals according to danger , and lay down sets of conditions for the experiments . ’ |
| 29 | Most of the sauropods ( like Brontosaurus ) had graviportal ( weight-carrying ) feet with thick elastic soles , with the foot expanding on tread-impact with the ground , similar to a modern elephant , to keep the animal from getting stuck in soft ground . |
| 30 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |