Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
2 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
3 | A narrow lane branching off the village street led to it . |
4 | In 1939 , when the new double tubes were constructed , branching off the Bakerloo system , Ernest spent much time away from the school watching the digging of the new Metropolitan Lines under buildings at Finchley Road . |
5 | As a result two US and two UK telephone companies are strongly competing for the network business , and a decision on who to use is expected shortly . |
6 | They looked at each other warily , circling for an opening remark . |
7 | As a result of this a full-time Keeper was appointed and in 1969 the University Grants Committee financed the Collection 's move to new premises as part of the refurbishment of the VanDyck Printers Building for the Drama Department . |
8 | Later I was wakened by someone else in the room fumbling for the light switch . |
9 | Naturally it results in acrobatics , with Frank driving through a tent — in which two people are sleeping — and speeding through a hay loft , leaping fifty feet through the air , crashing into a pond , then driving out of the water after being submerged . |
10 | I was speeding through the rage barrier . |
11 | I was thrilled , of course , but this was tempered somewhat by the knowledge that my mother was standing in full view , three feet away , leafing through a pattern book . |
12 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
13 | What a load of old cobblers … dare n't tell you what Hereford supporters were singing about the ref tho … to the first division now … a draw for Oxford … defeat for Swindon |
14 | Billy Arjan Singh ( see page 47 ) , one of India 's leading conservationists and tiger authorities , estimates that , allowing for a breeding life of fifteen years , a wild tigress only rears from five to seven and a half cubs . |
15 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
16 | ‘ We can expect to sight land here , about Bantry , or maybe Cliffden , allowing for the wind speed . ’ |
17 | After allowing for the community charge grant , which is now part of aggregate external finance , that is almost £300 million more than this year — an increase of 6.1 per cent . |
18 | ‘ Allowing for the recovery period is also important as far as the next cooking cycle is concerned . |
19 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
20 | Even allowing for the investment risk of personal pensions , this amounted to a guaranteed gain for younger people and a fairly sound proposition for anyone aged up to about 40 for women and 45 for men . |
21 | He came back without warning , overriding his own harbingers and flashing through the opening gates and straight to the hall , heralded only by the flag streaming above him . |
22 | Flashing through the birch wood came the white Mercedes-Benz , from which he leapt in his greatcoat and then dashed across the yard yelling out orders . |
23 | First , flashing through the gathering dark , a fire-engine screamed past the window of the Spinners ' . |
24 | And you 'd hear the tracer bullets rattling about the tin sheds . |
25 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
26 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
27 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
28 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
29 | The film showed his Ferrari jerking right ( Ferrari never carried out an inquiry , but Niki 's chief mechanic at the time conjectured a snapped rear left tie-rod ) , crashing through the chicken wire into the embankment — it was one of several dozen such places at the Ring and spectators were few — bouncing back onto the track , its petrol tank flying through the air . |
30 | Mosley undoubtedly had admirers in important social positions , including for a period Lord Rothermere , and had access to a wide range of the politically influential . |