Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 3 | An interest in kestrels had developed among a group of boys after seeing one in a London street during a school trip . |
| 4 | In general L and P are not equal and it is therefore reasonable to ask if there are theoretical reasons for favouring one over the other . |
| 5 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 6 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 7 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 8 | She felt delightfully relaxed and slightly unreal , and her mouth seemed incapable of shaping anything but a broad smile . |
| 9 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 10 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 11 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 12 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 13 | I am always surprised by the fact that this device of photographing someone as a representative of a profession rather than as an individual . |
| 14 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 15 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 16 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 17 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 18 | But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop . |
| 19 | Personally I would be pleased to find a driver that works with any variety of the printer I had — after a life of driving everything as an Epson FX-80 that would be progress ! |
| 20 | Month by month , the chances of saving anything from the wreckage of Bosnia grow less . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 22 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 23 | Well , I think it 's like everything else , I think that er , with , with Lawrence being off they 're just sort of meeting everything as a crisis and getting , getting |
| 24 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 25 | But at least she could be certain of one thing : it was n't a place where there was a risk of meeting anyone from the power station , at least not anyone who mattered . |
| 26 | Using sharp needles and ink , they were in the act of tattooing something on the girl 's back . |
| 27 | ( b ) Determinacy I turn now to another basic logical condition of meaningfulness of describing something as an ontological existent . |
| 28 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The offences referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) above are offences of stealing anything in the building or part of a building in question , of inflicting on any person therein any grievous bodily harm or raping any woman therein , and of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein . |
| 30 | ‘ The idea of stuffing everything into a pig 's stomach put me right off . ’ |