Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 2 | Reaching her car at last , she drove away into the silent night , gazing through a gauze of tears over the snow-covered mountains ahead . |
| 3 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 4 | The range of benefits given to new employees relocating as a result of accepting a job offer varies widely according to company policy and individuals ' circumstances . |
| 5 | Imagine Sun Ra and his Arkestra fumbling through a version of Funkadelic 's ‘ Maggot Brain ’ while a backbeat of earth-shaking dub hardcore metal and jazz squeal swirls in the distance … and that 's only a fragment of Praxis ' power ! |
| 6 | The Secretary of State er told me er that the has been no occasion where criticism from a companies auditors by my department 's inspectors in reports published since June nineteen seventy nine has led to an audit partner being excluded from membership of a professional accountancy body , er and no auditor criticised in D T I inspector 's reports has been debarred from auditing as a result of information er in that report . |
| 7 | Cunningham was leafing through a copy of the Financial Times at his desk amidst a cloud of cigar-smoke , beaming like some genial movie mogul , altogether unaffected , it seemed , by the events of the previous night . |
| 8 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 9 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 10 | These rosy expectations were not , however , to be fulfilled and even allowing for a degree of misfortune , Carter 's record of achievement as president was slim . |
| 11 | Allowing for a degree of non-anomalous unusualness in the sentences ( such sequences are , for various reasons , rather difficult to construct ) it seems that we have got from John 's mouth to the mouth of the river without encountering zeugmatic incompatibility . |
| 12 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 13 | In future it is hoped that information will be posted at the nearest car parks , as well as at the crag , allowing for a change of plan before walking to the climbs ! |
| 14 | Allowing for a margin of error in fuel reserves , and for a certain degree of defensive manoeuvring to avoid missile sites and aircraft intercepts , 2000 miles was the maximum distance the Foxbat could cover without re-fuelling . |
| 15 | In a broad programme of work , a variety of methods or types of activity can be reasonably expected ; planning will begin to lay out the sequence in increasing detail , even when allowing for a number of variant paths or for the switching of the course according to observed student response : improvisation or student decision-making works best when possibilities have been foreseen and prepared for . |
| 16 | Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts . |
| 17 | Camp thereby negotiates some of the lived contradictions of subordination , simultaneously refashioning as a weapon of attack an oppressive identity inherited as subordination , and hollowing out dominant formations responsible for that identity in the first instance . |
| 18 | If terrestrial zodiacs ore the product of our own imagination , we can either dismiss them as pure delusion , or work positively with the same idea , seeing their description and charting as a work of art in its own right . |
| 19 | Christopher was sawing through a piece of wood held in the vice . |
| 20 | Whipping as a part of foreplay is particularly popular in the South , while Northerners and Southerners are more likely to smoke dope than men in the Midlands . |
| 21 | and treetops , crashing through a valley of shadows . |
| 22 | Moreover , just as the connection between certain looks and shame is one which we learn solely by experience , ‘ without which … we should no more have taken blushing for a sign of shame than of gladness ’ , so is the connection between certain visual experiences , and distance and size . |
| 23 | How about stretching one over your partner 's nipples or clitoris and sucking through a bubble of rubber ? |
| 24 | BAGI RACK Apologizing as a form of attack ; a stick resembling a gun |
| 25 | There 's also a shot of doomy love interest ( Keaton trying to get fellow addict Katy Baker off ) and dopey oedipal sparring ( Keaton trying to get counsellor M Emmet Walsh on ) , but in the end any attempt at getting a fix on using as a way of life is elbowed puritanically aside . |
| 26 | Using as a source of data three texts from different newspapers published on the same day looking at equivalent reca reports in the same news story or editorials , finding one text similar in topic as a basis for comparison . |
| 27 | What distinguishes Regency houses perhaps most of all is the elaborate use of ironwork , which architects were just beginning to think of using as a matter of course . |
| 28 | Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music . |
| 29 | In 1987–8 there were 29 polytechnics in England and one in Wales , catering for a quarter of a million students ; of these , 95% were on advanced courses . |
| 30 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |