Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even companies like M&S have to do it from time : warn customers that something they 've bought could be dangerous and needs to be returned , either for repairing or a cash refund .
2 If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion .
3 That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty , praying that the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance ( Consequential Provisions ) Regulations 1991 ( S.I. , 1991 , No. 2742 ) , dated 5th December 1991 , a copy of which was laid before this House on 5th December , be annulled .
4 Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all .
5 17–6–1848 They forwarded a memorial to Lord John Russell praying that the Post Office should be caused to be shut throughout the Kingdom on the Lord 's day ; and on 19th February 1849 they petitioned the shareholders at Perth against running trains on the Sabbath .
6 King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz declared that the disaster was " God 's unavoidable will " , and government officials described it as an " accident " and due to " panic " following the collapse of a pedestrian access bridge , denying that a power cut had halted the air supply in the tunnel .
7 However , there is no denying that the picture quality does suffer at these low levels : the colours become increasingly weak and washed-out looking , and the sharpness of the definition falls off because the lens is having to work at its maximum aperture .
8 He stepped from the dais and glanced back , only now noticing that the altar stone was n't quite set in place , and that there was a thin gap beneath one end , which seemed to indicate that there was another pit beneath the stone .
9 At the Driftwood bar , Chris Hines is sinking a Guinness and explaining that the Parliament tune , ‘ Promentalshitback Enema Squad ( The Doodoo Chasers ) ’ is the unofficial SAS anthem .
10 Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished .
11 Explaining that the parish precept had risen to 8 percent less than the 11–1/2 percent predicted for many other councils , David Clark , finance and general purposes chairman , was questioned by Col. John Dabson .
12 When turned back , though not flat , they show that the horse is interested in what is behind him , usually checking that the escape route is clear ; so does a rolled-back eye which reveals the white of the eyeball .
13 And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures .
14 The dead officers were drawn from a number of battalions , revealing that the coup attempt was not confined solely to rebels within the ‘ Urraca ’ company .
15 At this juncture Chairman er it is I think worth reemphasizing that the County Council is progressing a further selective alteration to the structure plan , not a fundamental review of the strategic approach or indeed the policies which give effect to it .
16 And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head .
17 The engine allows shutdown just 30 seconds after landing and the rotor brake means safe passenger embarkation shortly afterwards .
18 One of the highlights is a sketch book containing prints taken in the 1840s of people , ships , rigging and a street scene , which is estimated to sell for £20–30,000 ( $35–55,000 ) .
19 If the clutch is not fully disengaging and the tail rotor is still turning , this will produce a sideways push to the tail .
20 In rebuilding or reinstating those parts of the Centre including essential accesses and services so destroyed or damaged making up any difference between the cost of rebuilding and reinstating and the insurance money received out of the Landlord 's own money
21 The CBI 's distributive trades survey , conducted between May 18 and June 2 , covers 15,000 outlets in retailing , wholesaling and the motor trade .
22 any accident injury loss or damage occurring while the motor car in connection with which indemnity is provided under this Policy is being
23 ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not .
24 Any damage occurring after the novus actus interveniens will be regarded as being too remote .
25 Billy was still laughing when the lavatory door creaked open and Selwyn pushed aside the loganberry bush and stepped out
26 Replacing s by in the low-pass transfer function creates a band-stop form of response with cut-off pulsatances satisfying when the low-pass cut-off occurs at unit pulsatance .
27 Rixi certainly had a voluminous ego , and thought nothing of confiding that a team mate was ‘ a selfish bitch ’ .
28 Other authors , e.g. Challinor ( 1949 ) , have expressed quite opposite views , maintaining that the wavecut bench is cut at such a level as not to impede the action of the waves at the foot of the cliff , so that long continued marine planation may occur .
29 On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals .
30 J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose .
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