Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its most intrusive the V8 roars valiantly under full throttle , but there is no escaping the fact that for demanding driving this engine occasionally labours under the strain . |
| 2 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 3 | INMATES at Penninghame Open Prison near Newton Stewart , Wigtownshire , have been praised for helping to combat under-age drinking in the area . |
| 4 | Where a person does not have reasonable cause to believe that there is a right to payment in these circumstances , it is an offence under s2 of the Act as amended to demand such payment . |
| 5 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 6 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 7 | McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 8 | Even after deciding to put public service behind him and concentrate on the private sector , he has never quite seemed able to escape involvement with government . |
| 9 | After sowing label each pot clearly |
| 10 | When asked to make one of two equal piles of pennies tiv , after having made one pile more or less than the other , three-to five-year-olds will do one of several things . |
| 11 | ‘ So , you were parked here illegally , ’ he insisted without a flicker , ‘ and I caught you trying to sneak back out again , after having inflicted considerable damage to my car . |
| 12 | Lots of the slicker , more citified proles ' sons had this extremely short hair by '68 after having had long hair . |
| 13 | Furthermore , competition has reduced somewhat because a number of the smaller software houses have disappeared due to the recession ; and the group is recruiting again , after having frozen this activity for the past couple of years . |
| 14 | It resigned in February 1990 after failing to gain parliamentary support for an economic austerity package , but was re-formed soon afterwards [ see pp. 37261-62 ] . |
| 15 | The council also had to withdraw its vehicles after failing to find alternative cover by the noon deadline . |
| 16 | The ruling ARENA party and its allies in the legislature passed the amnesty law with a simple majority after failing to win cross-party support . |
| 17 | Hekmatyar , however , refused to approve the plan ( although he took a more conciliatory position after failing to win military control in Kabul — see below ) . |
| 18 | After failing to raise new equity and facing $120m in bond repayments , GPA has abandoned its current efforts to restructure . |
| 19 | ‘ I studied his work at university , ’ she replied , thinking that the story of a man condemned to death for murder after failing to show proper grief at his mother 's funeral was not the happiest choice in the present circumstances . |
| 20 | On the following day the Országgyülés adopted a new law on internal security , including strict controls on the use of telephone and mail surveillance , after hearing acting Interior Minister Zoltan Pál admit that covert monitoring of the opposition had continued until little more than a week before , and that documents relating to the scandal had been shredded in defiance of a government order to secure all files for investigation . |
| 21 | She said she was sacked from her job on Wednesday after trying to help another member of staff she said Mrs Jonker had threatened to sack . |
| 22 | Remember that old saying about living to fight another day ? |
| 23 | A third Employment Act ( 1988 ) removed various closed shop immunities , extended the number of union officials to be directly elected , now by postal ballot , and gave legal protection to members who suffered ‘ unjustified ’ discipline by a union ( e.g. for refusing to support industrial action ) . |
| 24 | Daniel , Panayiotis and Pavlos Xidis , three Jehovah 's Witnesses , are still serving four-year sentences in Greece for refusing to perform military service . |
| 25 | Labour spokesmen made generous use of statistics to castigate the government for refusing to spend more money on science , and for letting Britain slip down the international league table on R&D spending . |
| 26 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 27 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |
| 28 | Twenty-two Labour candidates lost their endorsement in the General Election of October 1931 for refusing to accept Parliamentary Standing Orders . |
| 29 | But things taken for granted attract less attention than the striking and untypical . |
| 30 | But apart from some rhetoric about acting to protect human health , all it has done so far is commission a report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |