Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 2 | Boulogne-sur-Mer : ABOUT 150 masked fishermen attacked two fish processing plants near Boulogne yesterday , destroying nearly 140 tons of fish and causing around £650,000 in damage . |
| 3 | New Zealand has a network of ‘ backpackers ’ — small hostels , independently run , with a variety of sleeping facilities ( dormitory , family room , double room etc ) , and costing about £5 per person per night . |
| 4 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 5 | Trendy clerics selling out the faith of their fathers and sending away flocks with empty bellies . |
| 6 | If I ca n't still clamber up a mountain when I 'm 55 , subject to health and having both legs of course , I want to be put down humanely . |
| 7 | Veronica Shaw of Veronica 's Restaurant , London W2 , will be demonstrating and giving away recipes at the Horticultural Old Hall , Westminster , from April 30-May 3rd , admission £4 . |
| 8 | Victorian parents have been condemned for clothing their children in black for months on end , and putting even babies into mourning . |
| 9 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 10 | For example , setting up visual aids for presentations , laying on special effects , getting slides made , preparing reports , and putting together material from outside services . |
| 11 | It is lightly built and agile , with light hindquarters , heavier shoulders and long horns curving up — in fact it is very similar to the fighting bulls of Spain and Portugal , and just as alert and aggressive , but much lighter in build , with the bulls weighing only 400–475kg and the cows 325–350kg , and standing about 130cm at the withers . |
| 12 | Our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to Thorn , the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds , even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of Virgin Atlantic , that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million . |
| 13 | Quality Software Products Holdings Plc , Gateshead has now filled in the numbers hidden by the blobs in its pathfinder prospectus ( CI No 2,132 ) , pricing the 2.85m shares it is placing , 1.46m of them new , at 380 pence a share , valuing Quality , which did £1.2m net on £13.1m sales in 1992 , at £29.6m and raising about £5m of new money , net of expenses , for the company . |
| 14 | That road must have passed close to the place now called Chiswick , but keeping well north of the river swamps , probably along the northern boundary of the area which subsequently became known as Turnham Green . |
| 15 | But leaving aside instances of momentary irritation , of which there were many , as all field-workers must expect , most respondents became confident enough in the field-worker 's presence to express what were undoubtedly widely held fears about the research . |
| 16 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 17 | As a senior member of the banking committee in the late 1980s , he had intervened with federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating , while soliciting about $1,000,000 in political contributions from Keating 's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association [ see pp. 37848 ; 37998 ; 38223 ] . |
| 18 | 2.25:FERDIE Murphy 's Campsea-Ash looked an improved performer when chasing home Katabatic at Ascot , but then palpably failed to reproduce that effort when a distant third to Freeline Finishing at Chepstow . |
| 19 | He argues that the products are portrayed as chasing away dirt without harming the fabric : |