Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must , nevertheless , beware of looking at Spain through Andalusian spectacles and generalizing from the violent and precarious structure of the latifundia districts . |
| 2 | While I sulked in the tent , nursing my wounds and recovering from the thorough sandbagging , Mick was hatching a plan . |
| 3 | A massive country spanning five time zones and stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic , this vast land harbours towering mountains , lakes of enormous proportions , wide open prairies and the Arctic Circle . |
| 4 | Perhaps the demand for high-calibre and competent managers throughout the 1990s will guarantee the continuation of this ‘ twin-track ’ strategy of formal and informal development , guided by policies and monitoring from the centre . |
| 5 | In each case , however , corporate Japan 's response was a positive one , with companies restructuring their operations and emerging from the difficulties in a stronger position than before . |
| 6 | Other developments , more modest in their expectations and deriving from the particular perception this or that group might have of the way in which Owen 's new view could be related to its own grievance or apprehension or aspiration , proceeded in parallel , propagated largely by the rapidly growing radical press which included a number of journals advocating Owenite ideas . |
| 7 | WILLY Russell 's Educating Rita is the first play from the newly-formed B M Productions and judging from the performance at the Neptune Theatre last night there will be many more . |
| 8 | You can get advice on a wide variety of subjects including money or debt , legal difficulties and housing from the Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 9 | You can get advice on a wide variety of subjects including money ( or debt ) , legal difficulties and housing from the Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 10 | Noctuid moths and tiger moths respond by closing their wings and plummeting from the sky , or somersaulting out of the way . |
| 11 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 12 | Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden . |
| 13 | A MESSAGE of congratulations and blessing from the Pope will be read at a mass in Birkenhead tomorrow to mark Bishop Joseph Gray 's 50 years in the priesthood . |