Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 2 | J. Milroy developed techniques for handling quantitatively data of this kind by assigning to each speaker a range score calculated simply by counting from left to right the number of columns through which the variants ranged , and subtracting 1 . |
| 3 | After knowing only life at the highest level of the game , McGrain is full of admiration for the players Arbroath have assembled from Tayside , Edinburgh and Glasgow who combine playing , training and travelling long distances with everyday jobs . |
| 4 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 5 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 6 | I recognise the dangers of lumping together people with quite different cultures but the problems I am concerned with are experienced by members of all minorities in Britain . |
| 7 | The manager should explain to other heads of department the importance of maintaining even distribution of staff throughout the year . |
| 8 | In Leicestershire organised fox-hunting developed during the 1770s , in time to enjoy the exhilaration of galloping over miles of unfenced country . |
| 9 | and Imperial , it does so with the clear intention of keeping only part of the business for its own portfolio and selling the rest to the highest bidder . |
| 10 | At the time of writing only reports for 1991 and 1992 have been published and it is too early to evaluate the input that these new reporting arrangements will have . |
| 11 | The experience of racing again John at those Games left a small scar ( of which I was quite proud ) and a big impression . |
| 12 | For never smokers at baseline the rate of remaining never smokers in 1990 was 74% ( 594/804 ) in the control group , 65% ( 455/704 ) in the FSE group , 70% ( 440/625 ) in the SAM group , and 69% ( 549/791 ) in the FSE/SAM group ( χ1 2 a d j =6.1 , df=3 , p=0.1 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The Prime Minister is guilty of releasing only part of the information , ’ he said . |
| 14 | A MAN appeared in court yesterday accused of stealing nearly £4,000 of Christmas Club savings . |
| 15 | A MAN accused of stealing nearly £4,000 from a Christmas fund has been committed for trial at crown court . |
| 16 | The only English team in Scottish football has had a dramatic season , not least because a former chairman best not named for what are darkly known as legal reasons faces charges of stealing over £60,000 from club coffers . |
| 17 | Her pregnant mother had pulled the plough when they broke a part of their holding for wheat and vegetables , and Olga 's first memories were of carrying away stones from the furrows . |
| 18 | In all cases it is not a matter of tearing them down ( at least not at the time of the communication ) but of making then part of the communication . |
| 19 | One of the principal authors of the ANLT grammar system has estimated that the system is capable of covering about 25% of English ( Briscoe , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Viewing familiar issues in an unfamiliar setting was like fitting together pieces of a jig-saw puzzle which separates individual details and personalities from the root causes and effects of the problems . |
| 21 | Again , therefore , Truman had to be satisfied with pursuing only parts of his reform programme . |
| 22 | They will implement the programme of reform in the White Paper on the Citizen 's Charter , including bringing forward Charters for individual public services . |
| 23 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 24 | Valerie Charlotte Patterson , 28 , of Geneva Road , Darlington , has been charged with stealing almost £6,000 from Skippers garage in the town , where she worked . |
| 25 | In November Marvin D. Gitelson and Max Chaikin , two Washington real estate dealers , were charged with obtaining fraudulently $1,200,000 in HUD loans and with conspiring to sell drugs to real estate contacts . |
| 26 | Already established as a meticulous organizer , a good platform speaker , and an activist with a flair for publicity , he was instrumental in October 1920 in bringing together representatives of unemployed groups in the capital into a London district council of unemployed with himself as organizer . |
| 27 | The Coolin Mountains have a mighty power in drawing forth emotions of admiration and awe , and the appreciation of John MacWhirter 's pictures of ‘ Coiruisk ’ in all its stern sublimity , by all classes of people , discovers a much more general appreciation of the grander aspects of nature than we would credit the ordinary picture-loving public to possess . |
| 28 | Wales ............ 1 The Netherlands .. 2 EVEN without Ruud Gullit and with Marco van Basten on the bench , The Netherlands looked polished and stylishly effective in brushing aside Wales on their way to the the top of Group Four at Wrexham . |
| 29 | Changes of scribal hands , the use of short forms , the actual layout of the documents , all help in piecing together fragments of knowledge . |
| 30 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |