Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon that high interest rates , falling stock and asset values together with mounting unemployment makes the kill all but a certainty . |
| 2 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood . |
| 3 | The NSAIDs pirprofen , benoxaprofen , and diclofenac caused fatal hepatitis 9 , 10 , and 11 months respectively after starting therapy . |
| 4 | MORLEY STREET 's hat was back in the Champion Hurdle ring yesterday after persuading trainer , Toby Balding , that he retains his dash in a crucial gallop on Saturday . |
| 5 | The Chicago Board of Trade ( CBT ) is setting up the world 's first market place for pollution , with the intention both of making money and reducing emissions . |
| 6 | And erm the effect though of holding beach material on one part of the beach is of course that it starves the area which is along the Sussex Channel coast to the east of beach material that it would formerly have received . |
| 7 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 8 | Despite this evidence , one can not preclude the possibility that the α-glucosidase inhibitors produce their effect solely by inhibiting absorption and that the acceleration of MCTT is a secondary phenomenon , more or less irrelevant to the percent absorption . |
| 9 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after Planning Research Corp , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with Hewlett-Packard for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 10 | I also understand that certain groups , such as the Caravan Club are ‘ exempt organisations ’ and can hold caravan rallies etc without needing planning consent . |
| 11 | The Court ruled by 11 votes to two that the offence had been abolished by presidential decree in 1986 — when Aquino dismantled much of the coercive apparatus of former President Ferdinand Marcos shortly after taking power — but stated that the government could file charges of " simple rebellion " , a lesser offence which carried a lighter penalty of 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | Folivores ( leaf-eaters ) may satisfy their sodium requirement only by consuming soil or water plants , while animals like litter-feeding cockroaches in Amazonia would need to consume 30–40 times their energy requirement of litter to satisfy their phosphorus needs : in fact they eat dead animals as well . |
| 13 | THE GIRLFRIEND of the Army recruiting sergeant shot in the head at point-blank range shortly after leaving work in the centre of Derby said last night that his murderers were ‘ not human beings ’ and his death would not help the Irish republican cause . |
| 14 | I reached the Buck Inn just at opening time and stood by the fire steaming so much that two Swedish students got lost in the fog going to the gents . |
| 15 | It then complicates matters further by promoting voluntarism in a market that can only imperfectly express itself . |
| 16 | Every year a number of our graduates , many in important executive positions , return to Salford at Convocation 's invitation to tell current students about their experiences both in obtaining employment and the type of work they do . |
| 17 | ENGLAND boss Graham Taylor begins his 1994 World Cup campaign today by watching Group Two opponents Poland play Mexico in Belchatow . |
| 18 | Among some people who have been involved in negotiations at Geneva on laws-of-war matters there is a genuine concern that any neat set of rules limiting the use of nuclear weapons in one way or another might have the unfortunate effects either of weakening deterrence ; or else , contrariwise , of seeming to legitimise such uses of nuclear weapons as are not covered in any agreement ; or else of being nothing more than a paper accord , which would be of little real value in a conflict . |
| 19 | Employers in Japan use all of these methods to prevent the mobility of key workers especially in deferring pay from earlier to later years thereby rewarding highly continuous service to one company . |
| 20 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 21 | Economists are nothing if not ingenious , however , and in their ingenuity they have done much to deflect attention away from searching investigation into the nature and operation of organised labour within individual firms and industries . |
| 22 | Her crew was days away from taking part in the war against Germany for real . |
| 23 | Sparks , who was one of the original seven in the IBM PC group , claimed Athenix is 60 to 90 days away from shipping product . |
| 24 | She was two weeks away from giving birth to their first child . |
| 25 | He went for a job just after leaving school and the guy at the interview asked him if he 'd ever encountered prejudice and he said , ‘ Well , sometimes . ’ |
| 26 | A Turkish lorry driver was jailed for 16 years yesterday for smuggling heroin worth £1.2 million in his vehicle . |
| 27 | Philip Wilbraham has built a group quickly by taking advantage of lower prices , Philip Ames is buying up cheap high street sites for 4 Play Records and Roger Myers , who has already built and sold one restaurant group , is now doing it all again . |
| 28 | The effect of the inhibitor both on resting pressure and on cholecystokinin induced changes was reversed by L-arginine but not by D-arginine . |
| 29 | Divorce rates in Scotland are following a similar trend , although they are roughly five years later in taking effect . |
| 30 | There was no point now in telling Bartocci about the letter he had received . |