Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 2 | I 'm not one for imbuing phrases with a coy , knowing wink in their gait , but at the same time there is a meticulousness about these particular performances ( the Sixth is slightly better in this respect ) , which prevents the music from leaping off the page as quite it should . |
| 3 | Then there 's the student advisory service or welfare office ( names vary from college to college ) , responsible for helping students with a range of services from accommodation ( see Chapter 2 on accommodation ) and student health ( see Chapter 18 on managing stress ) to careers counselling ( see Chapter 22 on career choice and job search ) and alumni relations ( see the final chapter , So , what did you get out of college ? ) . |
| 4 | The trees are a valuable visual aid when solving small problems by hand but ‘ pointers ’ such as P(i) are essential for handling problems of a realistic size on a computer . |
| 5 | AFTER viewing the frequent unsuccessful lbw appeals during the Headingley Test , I think it is worth reminding umpires of a rarely considered yet obvious fact . |
| 6 | It comprises of a pack of Tampax mini tampons , an information booklet full of reassuring advice about using tampons plus a neat discreet tampon holder . |
| 7 | This suggests that there may be a mismatch between the rationale for protecting respondents by a short time limit and the criteria used to decide whether or not Ord. 53 must be used by the applicant . |
| 8 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 9 | The system 's 10K–450K temperature range attests to its flexibility for cooling samples in a wide range of applications . |
| 10 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |
| 11 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 12 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |
| 13 | A BRITISH Rail chief enjoyed a ‘ champagne ’ lifestyle for nearly 10 years after accepting bribes from a firm of suppliers , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 14 | The 25-year-old central defender , who captained the troubled Second Division club in the season just ended , made his feelings clear yesterday after opening negotiations for a new contract with chief executive Freddie Fletcher . |
| 15 | After expressing doubts to a friend about his moral fitness for the priesthood ( ‘ having had unspecified sexual relations with an unspecified number of unmarried girls ’ ) , both decided that he was ‘ properly penitent ’ , and so he went ahead . |
| 16 | After losing Piers behind a seven foot canvas and unable to negotiate an easy exit between pots , palettes , paints and general pandemonium , the three artists concluded they no longer has enough space . |
| 17 | Diego Maradona , the only player in Italy to earn more than Gullit , played in Napoli 's Uefa Cup third-round home leg against Werder Bremen yesterday after taking painkillers for a back injury , but was largely ineffective as his side lost 3-2 . |
| 18 | Government officials expressed confidence in January 1990 that Bolivia would by June have cancelled all its commercial bank debts , after receiving promises of a total of $30,500,000 in donations which would enable it to buy back the remaining $270,000,000 . |
| 19 | One 18-year-old youth appeared in court after throwing glasses at a publican 's head , while in another pub case that ended in court a landlord had refused to serve Bank Holiday revellers whereupon they ‘ knocked him down , and kicked him in the eye and about the body ’ . |
| 20 | Knighton met residents living near 19-acre Brunton Park after unveiling plans for a 30,000 all-seater stadium , hotel , multiplex cinema , restaurant and tropical plant and butterfly kingdom . |
| 21 | She spoke it from between trembling lips like a sob . |
| 22 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 23 | The interior design of the TARDIS proved to be a text-book illustration of Cusick 's rule-of-thumb about seeking impressions as a guide to inspiration . |
| 24 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 25 | COUNCIL workers are considering bringing services to a halt in their anger over proposed redundancies in one of their departments . |
| 26 | Husbands were equally exempt from liability under section 3(1) as well as for the offence of administering drugs to a woman with intent to stupefy her and enable a man to have sexual intercourse with her . |
| 27 | The idea of using frames in a word processor is , perhaps , a little novel , although Ami Professional uses them for graphics and tables . |
| 28 | In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe . |
| 29 | One of the advantages of using stripes for a garment is that only a small amount of each yarn is needed and the width of the stripes can also be varied , depending on the amount of each yarn which is available . |
| 30 | COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN is a method of drawing ideas on a monitor screen and recording them . |