Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Edward Peer was fined £240 by Oxford magistrates after facing a drugs charge . |
| 3 | Gunmen have shot two security guards in Southampton and escaped with fifteen thousand pounds after hijacking a police car . |
| 4 | The 28-year-old champion was booed after taking a points decision over Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the Scottish Exhibition Centre but he said : ‘ They are the mugs , not me . ’ |
| 5 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 6 | An important effect of adopting a Loans Fund ( or any other ‘ loans pool ’ ) is that a distinction has to be made between loan repayment and loan redemption : |
| 7 | The height and extent of the inbuilt hurdles in the way of reforming a police force are not commonly appreciated . |
| 8 | He re-sat the ‘ O ’ levels at the next available opportunity ( November 1979 ) and crashed once more , thus having to abandon his initial ambition of becoming a police officer . |
| 9 | You stand nearly three times as much chance of getting a police caution in Kent as you do in South Wales . |
| 10 | Mr Buckland stressed there was ‘ no necessity ’ for the share sale and there was no intention of holding a rights issue . |
| 11 | SHORT OF HOLDING an arts festival down the darkened drains of Guildford , it is hard to think of a less promising cultural centre than the Arctic Circle . |
| 12 | They have also ruled out any possibility of supporting a rights issue . |
| 13 | He was accused of using threatening or insulting behaviour and of assaulting a police officer . |
| 14 | The General Secretary of the Labour Party , Larry Whitty , has been cleared of assaulting a police officer . |
| 15 | Most first-year students want a programme which leaves open the option of entering the legal profession and of taking an honours degree . |
| 16 | On the other hand , where a landlord was entitled to determine a lease for " building sites or planting or other purposes " , he was held not to be entitled to determine it for the purpose of constructing a sports stadium ( Coates v Diment [ 1951 ] 1 All ER 890 ) . |
| 17 | One of the two men accused of murdering a police informer was also a drugs dealer , according to evidence given by the prosecution on the second day of their trial . |
| 18 | The man accused of murdering a police informer has told a jury that he 's a drug dealer and a poacher , but not a killer . |
| 19 | One of the men accused of murdering a police informer has accused detectives in the case of being unprofessional , incompetent , corrupt and dishonest |
| 20 | The jury will consider its verdict tomorrow in the trial of two men accused of murdering a police informer . |
| 21 | The jury in the trial of two men accused of murdering a police informer has been sent to a hotel for the night , after failing to reach a verdict . |
| 22 | A man accused of murdering a police informer has been cleared . |
| 23 | A TOP Catholic public school was yesterday accused of hindering a police investigation into a pervert priest . |
| 24 | If you are considering arranging a with-profits endowment policy to link up with your mortgage , always ask your mortgage lender or financial adviser for details of the past performance of the endowment insurance company they are proposing . |
| 25 | Since cooperation was mutual trading — a genuine alternative to traditional retailing which existed to generate profit — the act of levying a profits tax challenged the integrity and identity of the movement , endowing it with the same status as private trading . |
| 26 | Terry Roach , 41 , convicted of killing a police officer by running him over in a truck , serving life in the Phillips Correctional Institution , Georgia and Michael Hamilton , aged 40 , convicted of the contract killing of his wife , sentenced to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin . |
| 27 | A GLUE-SNIFFER was jailed yesterday for ramming a police car while high . |
| 28 | Richard William Dunn , 39 , of Vine Street , was also bound over for obstructing a police constable . |
| 29 | The report looks at the reasons for having a complaints procedure and discusses the principles of good practice for complaints and appeals procedures . |
| 30 | ‘ Three years ago , he said , ‘ How about starting a promotions company — jockeys are n't promoted properly . ’ |