Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lilies have to push their way through thyme covering the soil of their pots , so that there 's a green covering even when the eye-catching bulbs have finished flowering . |
| 2 | MILLIONAIRE Alan Sugar will be staying on as chairman following the defeat of his buy-out plan . |
| 3 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 4 | But the average fine for employers breaking the Health and Safety at Work Act last year was just £297 — much lower than fines imposed on large manufacturing companies . |
| 5 | The proliferation of disputes over scarce water resources , particularly between states bordering the Nile , Euphrates and Jordan rivers , attests to the impact of resource depletion , as does the relationship between deforestation and desertification . |
| 6 | The CSCM proposal , introduced by the Italian Foreign Minister , Gianni De Michelis , and his Spanish counterpart , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , called for general rules modelled along the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 [ see pp. 27301-09 ] , to settle tensions and disputes between states bordering the Mediterranean , including those of the Middle East and the Gulf . |
| 7 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 8 | They stay up for hours watching the Wizard of Oz and Grease 2 again and again on their video upstairs . |
| 9 | I can not afford to send donations to every appeal that comes through my letterbox , but I can walk for miles in glorious locations and sit for hours enjoying the birds in my garden . |
| 10 | a sketch of a page for printing showing the position of text and illustrations and giving general instructions . |
| 11 | Almost a town in itself , Dunlaoghaire was some miles from the centre of Dublin , a big harbour where the mail boat came in and left every day for Holyhead bringing the holiday visitors . |
| 12 | In the ideal conditions for wave riding the wind is blowing parallel to the shore but , as with jumping , you can get away with winds that blow slightly onshore . |
| 13 | The observation about knitting having a bias is well shown in the picture at the top right of page 28 in the manual . |
| 14 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |
| 15 | Again , the counts of Flanders were in the vanguard , with Robert the Frisian and Robert II offering protection for merchants crossing the county and their peace for the duration of fairs . |
| 16 | There are other processes ( or what some might regard as ‘ tricks ’ ) the investigator can use , for instance establishing the effectiveness of wheel braking on a slippery runway by means of the longitudinal acceleration recording . |
| 17 | Very , very confusing this is , the world is going upside down and he do n't know what 's going to happen next you see , for instance looking a year ago , two years ago the wall , the Berlin Wall was standing and the Russian empire was feared , all over the world , and now this day , it just fell on its face |
| 18 | Some of the common strategies deployed within lyrics , for instance creating the impression of the lyric 's reader as an intruder gazing voyeuristically into texts meant for private circulation , is one of the devices employed by poets to protect themselves . |
| 19 | In fact the extent to which this happens , and to which aid itself directly finances consumption , for instance paying the salaries of local staff , has been a matter of controversy among economists . |
| 20 | In Nicaragua , the sandinistas are increasingly divided between groups urging the party towards some kind of parliamentary social democratic path , and others who question an exclusively electoral emphasis , demanding adherence to the more radical policies of the past . |
| 21 | An account he submitted for payment covering the period 9 December 1541 to 12 June 1543 ( Arber II.50–60 ) is admirably detailed , concerning not only quantities and costs of proclamations but also special purchases of books for the king , with the style and price of binding . |
| 22 | Around one quartr of the children in this study were below the third percentile for weight suggesting an association between cryptosporidiosis and failure to thrive , as described in other centres . |
| 23 | Labour MP Alan Milburn has called for action following a siege in Lyonette Road , Darlington , when 21-year-old Leanne Rees was held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 24 | They drew attention to the distances involved and the communication problem for islanders visiting the mainland . |
| 25 | When he heard about Bonanza parking the Fraser girl on ice out in the country he must have figured it was his chance for the big killing . |
| 26 | Her organisation is preparing a complaint about a Boots advertisement for Ostermilk featuring a bra with two Ostermilk tins inside , which claims : ‘ Any closer to breast milk and we would have to change the packaging . ’ |
| 27 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 28 | One can define , for some probe order , the consistency measure Σ c f ∘ ( c ) for the total fit of all the clones to the probes , where f ∘ ( c ) is the fit of the clone c , either as defined above or extended to allow for probes having a length or being repetitive . |
| 29 | A model attempts to clarify the relationship between variables influencing the buying situation , and may assist the marketer to predict the outcome from some planned change , such as the introduction of a new brand , or a change in advertising policy . |
| 30 | This is the secret behind many of the stories about animals sensing the presence of man and other creatures , or of rushing to the help of an injured person discovered by means outside the scope of their more obvious perceptive processes . |