Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 2 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 3 | INVESTORS took their cue yesterday from the generally dubious reaction of the media to the Budget and the FT-SE 100-Share Index fell 36 points in the first 15 minutes of trading before staging a partial rally to close 29.4 lower on the day at 2,889.9 , 100 points below its all-time high two weeks ago . |
| 4 | Therefore when you finish a diet , returning to eating an average amount , the amount you used to eat to maintain a constant weight , will result in you putting on fat . |
| 5 | Ultimately there would be a depreciation of the exchange rate under a free-floating regime , but the policy response of the government has been to prevent this occurring by sustaining a high level of domestic interest rates . |
| 6 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 7 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
| 8 | The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning . |
| 9 | He works as a packer and is training towards becoming a final examiner . |
| 10 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 11 | Here there will be a multiplicity of arrangements with the private sector ranging from guaranteeing the same price as the 1992–3 DSS spend , to tighter downward pressure on prices exerted through tendering , to authorities where little or no control over placement costs will be exercised at all . |
| 12 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 13 | ‘ It is just one of a number of sites which we are looking at to formulate an extended park and ride system , ’ he said . |
| 14 | IBM is also working with Apple on Bento , Apple 's format for identifying and interchanging objects , and is looking at using the two developments together . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're now looking at standardising the whole thing and that could well involve the defrocking of Reverend Green . ’ |
| 16 | One council were looking at enforcing a total ban on dogs in all parks in their area . |
| 17 | Munro said : ‘ We were looking at finding the right outdoor follow-up to our Loch Lomond concert of 1991 , and were considering various options when the Fleadh approached us . |
| 18 | and see if there 's any , anything in that , cos you would n't be looking at doing every single village hall |
| 19 | Two years ago the United States Congress voted to outlaw this counterfeiting by passing the Indian Arts and Crafts Law of 1990 . |
| 20 | " You , " he said , and grabbed one of the kitchen helpers who was passing by carrying a heavy bucket full of some steaming liquid . |
| 21 | Coun Chris Abbott hopes that Langbaurgh Council 's £70,000 budget saving by disregarding the first £10 instead of the normal full pension is a misunderstanding . |
| 22 | By contrast , he responded to heavy trade union lobbying by announcing a modest reduction of 0.5 of a percentage point in the employee 's CPF rate , to 22.5 per cent . |
| 23 | I found it easier to systematise my trial-and-error searching by restricting the possible moves , thus reducing a wider problem to a subproblem . |
| 24 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 25 | Take your own advantage of the difficult atmosphere by realizing that things can not get much worse so it is worth while going out on a limb to say what you want to say without worrying about causing a negative reaction ! |
| 26 | Wildlife campaigners are celebrating after winning an 18 year fight to protect badgers from badger baiting . |
| 27 | ANGLERS are celebrating after landing a huge catch of fish which has ensured their club 's survival . |
| 28 | In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled , with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed . |
| 29 | Each Phonecard comes in a special wrapper giving you the information you 'll need to add to British Telecom 's donation , with the money that 's raised going towards protecting the natural habitats of all endangered species in Britain . |
| 30 | Each Phonecard comes in a special wrapper giving you the information you 'll need to add to British Telecom 's donation , with the money that 's raised going towards protecting the natural habitats of all endangered species in Britain . |