Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Turn it into a utopian commune where women , gazing through mullioned windows at the lake , weave medieval tapestries . ’ |
2 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
3 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
4 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
5 | He and Gros pulled every string , while canvassing for suitable volunteers from the Foreign Legion and the Field Service . |
6 | ‘ I 'm zapping through old classics from de Sade and Fanny Hill right through to William Burroughs and Henry Miller — all the dirty books one has heard of but never read . |
7 | Over copious beverages at a plush hotel in Notting Hill Gate , the stooping Lord of scabrous spleen-rock is speeding through scurrilous anecdotes about conspiracies within the monarchy , parties celebrating Freddie Mercury 's demise , sociopathic ex-Fall associates and much more . |
8 | Leafing through bound volumes of those old editions in Beirut , Abu Khadra could still experience the odd moment of journalistic triumph as old newspapermen tend to do , long after their papers have died . |
9 | By and large , and allowing for spoiling operations at key points in the evening , programmes are arranged within time-slots to avoid outright competition for the same demographic group or taste constituency . |
10 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
11 | Simply to maintain current patterns of expenditure will require considerable expansion of the budget , without allowing for technological changes in service provision . |
12 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
13 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
14 | in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 . |
15 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
16 | Article 6 assumes a series of delimitation agreements between adjacent States allowing for bilateral relationships within the overall multilateral regime . |
17 | This defeatism , unwarranted either by the fragility of Reagan 's mandate or by the public opinion polls , led the Speaker meekly to surrender his control over the legislative schedule by agreeing to an accelerated timetable allowing for final votes on the president 's programme by mid-summer . |
18 | Foreign trade would cease to be a state monopoly , although the state would continue to " direct and control " it , and the state " recognizes the ownership of mixed enterprises " , thus allowing for joint ventures with foreign investors in the future . |
19 | It has submitted three scenarios to a government advisory group allowing for various capacities of electricity production from onshore wind , offshore wind , landfill , hydroelectric , solar cell , wave and forestry schemes . |
20 | Allowing for rough ends on the dowel 's random overall length , plus the short extensions at each end of the spar , the sail height is set at 2220mm ( 87½in ) and the spine cut to 2300 ( 90½in ) . |
21 | The learning mode was a judicious mixture of lecture , class lessons , practical sessions and ( on Friday afternoons ) individual/ small group work , using work-cards or booklets ; these latter varied , being strictly or loosely structured according to need , allowing for different kinds of work , not all of it written . |
22 | The glycosidic angle , describing the orientation about the bond connecting the base to the sugar has been estimated by integrating intranucleotide cross peaks from NOESY data , such as that shown in Fig.3 a at a number of mixing times ( 50 , 100 , 200 , 300ms ) , thus allowing for different degrees of build-up of the through-space interaction as well as second-order spin diffusion effects . |
23 | Now , with the completion of these treatment plants and THORP , BNFL is seeking to vary discharge authorisations , but even allowing for projected increases in some contributions , the overall total dose resulting from the discharges will remain very low . |
24 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
25 | The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours . |
26 | Club rugby , through this wealthy , first-class ‘ tail ’ wagging the club ‘ dog ’ , has been decimated , as has the system which once had 15 viable unions catering for all players at all levels in a rather rough and amateurism but entirely wholesome — and ultimately highly successful and fairer — why . |
27 | For some organisations specialising in catering for certain kinds of " event " , or for some operating in certain regions , these seasons are more pronounced than for others . |
28 | In terms of property management the Trust is catering for increasing numbers of well-educated visitors who want to be involved . |
29 | None the less continued expansion of fundholding will lead to excessive management costs , difficulties of coordination in contracting between growing numbers of purchasers , and lack of effectiveness . |
30 | But while much of Africa is clamouring for multi-party elections in the hope of replacing indifferent or corrupt governments , the prospect of political freedom is met with apprehension in Uganda . |