Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I played my part in helping Middlesbrough into the Premier League . ’ |
| 2 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 3 | And his toe-nails were long and curved , like the horns of a goat , reminding Melanie of the cloven hooves she thought he might have had . |
| 4 | The young woman pursed her lips and , for a few brief seconds , smiled sweetly , reminding Corbett of the pious , beautiful , young nun he once knew . |
| 5 | As the relentless publicity machinery of pop set about building Kylie into the perfectly-packaged star , however , the cerebral was taking a back seat to the sensational . |
| 6 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 7 | What we have been successful at and particularly important in point of view is that we have been successful in keeping Whitchurch within the rural development areas , and , and retaining the status of the available which that gives . |
| 8 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 9 | The competitive industry would produce Q C to be in equilibrium at E , whereas the monopolist , equating MR to the lower curve LMC ' ; , would produce Q M to be in equilibrium at E ' ; . |
| 10 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 11 | Returning Rover to the private sector had been an aim of the Conservative government for several years . |
| 12 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |
| 13 | He marked his arrival in county society by rebuilding Chipley in the 1680s , and engaging in rivalry with the nearby Tory , John Sanford of Nynehead . |
| 14 | Last year he won the Irish Junior Triathlon Championship and he will be representing Ulster at the British Championships in Swindon next week . |
| 15 | Dalriada will represent Ulster in the senior girls event , Wallace High School will be the junior girls representatives with Bangor Grammar representing Ulster in the junior boys event . |
| 16 | The resolution was submitted in response to US President George Bush 's controversial March 3 statement equating Jerusalem with the occupied territories [ see p. 37304 ] . |
| 17 | I amused myself watching all three and rather cruelly thanking God for the poor old General 's disability . |
| 18 | Rangers streamed forward , and went close several times before the woodwork again came to Tottenham 's rescue , denying Sinton in the 16th minute . |
| 19 | Anni only learned to ride four years ago and later this year she and Floriano were representing Britain at the Equestrian Games in Stockholm . |
| 20 | On June 11 the Chamber of Citizens elected Jugoslav Kostic ( representing Vojvodina on the Yugoslav Presidency ) as its chair . |
| 21 | It was easy to make fun of , and it was no wonder that Conservative Central Office had a field day , distributing a compilation of green policy statements , including the unrealistic ones on replacing the EC with a ‘ loose federation of ecological countries ’ and disengaging Britain from the international money market . |
| 22 | The Cranberries : knocking O'Hara off the 7,327,439th spot ! |
| 23 | In the late Middle Ages the West Riding of Yorkshire , particularly the Leeds-Bradford area , emerged as a major centre of the woollen textile industry , as it was to remain , overtaking York as the major centre of the cloth trade in the North ( 82 , p.152 ) . |
| 24 | The single market is sure to have some impact on EDI use , but the main motivation for adopting EDI in the lean 1990s is competitive pressure . |
| 25 | Two of the small number of Liberals representing Quebec in the federal parliament resigned from the party in response to Chrétien 's election . |
| 26 | The communists advocated keeping Azerbaijan within the Soviet Union but attracted nationalist support by opposing any compromise on Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 27 | The EFTA states were agreed on only one thing : they rejected the sequence of events beyond a free trade area postulated by the Treaty of Rome , accepting EFTA as the only possible alternative that would offer some benefits to its members should the EEC prove effective . |
| 28 | It is working with IBM and Motorola Inc ( helping IBM with the new PowerPC RISC implementation ) on both hardware and AIX software , so that users of the new version of the Power RISC will all support compatible multi-processing implementations — something should emerge during the first half of next year . |
| 29 | However , US Secretary of State James Baker also conferred with de Klerk on March 22 , after meeting Mandela at the Namibian independence celebrations on March 21 . |
| 30 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |