Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On similar lines the NOPWC reported in 1963 that some nineteen employment agencies were being run by old people 's welfare committees ‘ to give older workers the opportunity to continue working beyond retirement age , ’ and prevent them ‘ being thrown on a human scrap heap where their physical and mental health suffered and some became prematurely incapable of leading independent lives ’ ( NOPWC 1963 : 4 ) . |
| 2 | Last week DEC stopped flirting with Unix System Labs Inc 's transaction processor monitor , Tuxedo , and officially became part of ‘ the club , ’ a die-in-the-wool Tuxedo reseller in hot pursuit of the commercial user . |
| 3 | Vietnam 's co-operation in the Cambodian peace process had removed one of the major obstacles to normalization , but there remained the issue of approximately 2,300 US service personnel reported missing in action ( MIAs ) in the war and still unaccounted for . |
| 4 | It is for this reason that those concerned with young people — parents , teachers , librarians , and others — feel the need to provide a wide range of such materials as books , films , videos , and pictures , and to provide opportunities for acquiring the skills to obtain meaning from print and pictures . |
| 5 | Throughout 1990 Laos continued to assist the USA in the search for US servicemen reported missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam war . |
| 6 | There is a paradigm shift occurring in biology , and this book is a manifestation of that change . ’ |
| 7 | Guild of Bricklayers ’ judges visited over half of the original projects entered taking into account technical quality , cleanliness of the face , correct use of coloured bricks and particularly the quality of any special features , such as arches . |
| 8 | Surely , as prime evidence of date and function the artefacts must be integrated into the excavation report itself and the artificial division into materials replaced by objects grouped according to function and deposit . |
| 9 | The main part of the research involves entering on computer information on every house occupier in Glasgow at different dates between 1861 and 1901 . |
| 10 | The main part of the research involves entering on computer information on every house occupier in Glasgow at different dates between 1861 and 1901 . |
| 11 | Yes , on a Wednesday , this is the day when mummy goes teaching at school in the afternoon |
| 12 | A couple with two young kids starts paying on income over £69.70 . |
| 13 | You can go into a shop and start purchasing this item not knowing your partner is there and the partner suddenly appears and then the confrontation starts bearing in mind you are not |
| 14 | They produce a leaflet called The Accommodation Barns Guide 1991 which contains useful information and lists of camping barns and bunkhouses grouped according to county . |
| 15 | The baseline characteristics of the subjects varied according to severity of periodontal disease ( table I ) . |
| 16 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 17 | Fidelity ( 0800 414161 ) has produced guides explaining the tax savings to be made by using a roll-up fund ; the opportunities cover investing on behalf of a child , supplementing your income , retiring or working abroad , approaching retirement , investments made by a non-working spouse and investing on behalf of your company . |
| 18 | Should it be as many as seven times and Jesus had replied both no , no you should be able to forgive forgive them seven times , it should be seventy times in other words stop thinking about counting and just get on with the forgiving . |
| 19 | And even the most hardened cynic must agree that lying down with your eyes closed listening to music is a lot more appealing than grunting and straining over a set of weights in your local sports centre . |
| 20 | Products and yields vary according to fashion and demand ; whaling , sealing , fur trading and mineral ore exploitation have declined in recent years , but commercial fishing and fossil fuel exploitation are well established and likely to continue . |
| 21 | 11.11 : Shoppers begin fleeing in panic and an area for one mile around is cordoned off . |
| 22 | One of the features of the cerebral hemispheres is that they have more extensive interconnections from one part to other parts than is usual in sensory centres , and perhaps this was the feature , inherited from its origin as the smell-brain , that made it useful for other modalities as well ; global pattern recognition requires taking into account large chunks of sensory information , not just localised patches . |
| 23 | Firemen were called to Hartlepool marina yesterday after a 30ft fishing boat began taking in water . |
| 24 | ‘ I was really impressed by what I saw and as a result started learning about magic when I got back to London , ’ he recalls . |
| 25 | You state that ‘ Japan 's foreign-aid programme directs spending at infrastructure ( which companies can make money out of ) rather than technical health ( which they can not ) . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's only the same age as Tommy but I think she 's already a good enough organist to start playing in church on Sundays . ’ |
| 27 | But during this time the pond started buzzing with activity as it filled with frogs , tadpoles , newts and pond skaters to name but a few . |
| 28 | In stark contrast , the transport aircraft needed for air mobility trickled out : the Britannia inter-theatre aircraft started coming into service in 1959 ; the Argosy intra-theatre aircraft in 1962 ; and the Belfast strategic freighter in 1964 . |
| 29 | He said the EC guidelines included looking at design and layout of offices , eyesight tests , rest facilities for pregnant women and separate rest areas for smokers and non-smokers . |
| 30 | No one who reads the speech of the President of the Union at the inaugural meeting of the mission , before Temple opened his mouth , can suppose that that President needed converting to Christianity . |