Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misgivings had been expressed by many deputies , however , principally about allowing less than two weeks for preparation and discussion of such an important piece of legislation . |
| 2 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |
| 3 | Valuations were a matter of fact and expert opinion , and according to the Lord President ( Clyde ) in Duke of Portland v Woods Trustees [ 1926 ] , a true valuation could be made only after employing more than one measure , each legitimate but none necessarily conclusive by itself . |
| 4 | In view of the growing international concern about the use of children and young people in various conflicts , especially in third-world countries , how on earth can the Minister possibly justify a situation in this country whereby a young lad can join the Army at the age of 16 , or in some cases at the age of 15 , but if he changes his mind and wants to leave after serving more than six months he can not do so and is forced to continue in the armed services until the age of 21 ? |
| 5 | The attack occurred one day after three members of a Jewish guerrilla group , the Jewish Underground , had been released from prison after serving less than seven years of life sentences for murdering Palestinians [ see also pp. 33190-91 ; 34010 ] . |
| 6 | SWINDLING Baroness Cecilia de Stempel slipped out of jail early yesterday after serving less than 2 1/2 years of her seven-year sentence for cheating her aged aunt out of her fortune . |
| 7 | In June 1990 Gen. Chaovalit , the former Army C.-in-C. , had resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister after serving less than three months in the Cabinet [ see p. 37532 ] . |
| 8 | After interviewing more than 50 witnesses and reviewing tapes and papers from the security services , Hamilton stated that " all credible evidence " suggested that George Bush had been in the USA on Oct. 18-22 , 1980 , when , as vice-presidential candidate , he was alleged to have flown to Paris to negotiate the deal with representatives from the revolutionary government of Iran . |
| 9 | People living in Marl Drive staged a demonstration after waiting more than 18 hours for council workers to come to their assistance . |
| 10 | Tommy Weir , 66 , of Walker Street , in Fauldhouse , West Lothian , died last Thursday of a heart attack after waiting more than 50 minutes for an ambulance which had been sent to Falkirk by mistake . |
| 11 | After riding more than 100 winners , Murphy became private trainer for the Durkan family in Dublin — sending out Anaglogs Daughter to win at the Cheltenham Festival in l980 . |
| 12 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 13 | After screening more than 360000 men , the 12 000 who were eligible were placed into an experimental or control group . |
| 14 | After plummeting more than 60 points on Tuesday , the Dow Jones index fell another 50 points in early trading yesterday before recovering its poise in the afternoon and closing 32.20 lower at 3181.35 . |
| 15 | The government first claimed that its forces ( Forças Armadas Populares de Libertaçao de Angola — FAPLA ) had captured the town on Feb. 2 , after killing more than 500 UNITA guerrillas , but this was denied by UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi , who said that the town was firmly under UNITA control and alleged that Soviet and Cuban forces had been involved in the fighting . |
| 16 | This is likely to be useful if your scanner is capable of handling more than one sheet at a time , since you can rad a whole batch of pages at a go . |
| 17 | It must be capable of moving rapidly from one to another , of using more than one simultaneously , of focusing on a sub-schema ( say a ‘ menu schema ’ within a ‘ restaurant schema ’ ) . |
| 18 | If these points can be arranged satisfactorily then the sequential interview is by far the most streamlined and efficient way of allowing more than one person to be involved in selection . |
| 19 | Royal Bank Chief Executive Dr George Mathewson said , ‘ Following hard on the heels of our announcement in April that we had agreed to acquire the Boston Five , this is another encouraging step towards our strategic aim of deriving more than 10 per cent of our earnings from the USA . |
| 20 | Spain 's biggest trial of ecological crimes has begun with 34 rice farmers , pesticide salesmen and government officials accused of poisoning more than 20,000 birds with banned pesticides in the Donana national park in 1986 . |
| 21 | The prepatent period is between 6-8 weeks , and each female worm is capable of producing more than 200,000 eggs per day |
| 22 | Some had no intention of meeting more than two hours , three times a year . |
| 23 | Is n't the enquiry desk capable of looking out when that arrears |
| 24 | Aberdeen .... 1 Celtic ...... 1 AS A CHEEKY teenager who was capable of scoring more than 30 goals a season , Charlie Nicholas earned the nickname the Cannonball Kid . |
| 25 | Yet despite selling more than 100,000 copies in its first week of release , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ reached only number two in the pop charts — Rod Stewart being at number one . |
| 26 | Good taste to the General-Secretary was a matter of going further than any artist dreamed , and then when the mere craftsman of his vision had caught up with it , going further still . |
| 27 | This one in front has obviously got a fear of going more than forty miles an hour that 's for sure oh |
| 28 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 29 | May 24 will see the sixth running of the race , Britain 's second-biggest women-only event , and the organisers are confident of getting more than 2000 runners . |
| 30 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |