Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 2 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 3 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 4 | It saves you from becoming under-insured as a result of inflation , with the risk of having to find thousands of pounds out of your own pocket in the event of a serious claim . |
| 5 | It is thus automatically kept up-to-date and , providing you were not underinsured to start with , you need no longer worry about becoming under-insured as a result of inflation . |
| 6 | These oolites were probably deposited as part of the coastal sand-barrier complex as it prograded basinwards , before becoming stabilised at the edge of the platform . |
| 7 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 8 | Three people were released by Billingham firemen after becoming trapped in a lift at Dawson House , Billingham . |
| 9 | Any failure to develop and promote a range of options — or the production of services ill-suited to real needs — deepens the likelihood of casework becoming trapped in a rut of ‘ patch and mend ’ activities . |
| 10 | At the lower levels of the movement , however , many were becoming attracted to the prospect of ending the feuds of recent years . |
| 11 | Saint Laurent 's clashing ric-rac , dazzling mixed with a print . |
| 12 | Subsidence during this mature passive margin stage is driven by both thermal subsidence arising from the cooling of the margin as it moves away from the region of mantle upwelling located at the site of rifting , and by the isostatic loading caused by the growing wedge of sediment accumulating offshore . |
| 13 | Some good quality bags also have an anti-snag strip sewn between the zip and the baffle to prevent the fabric itself becoming caught in the zip . |
| 14 | The water was getting hot and becoming clouded with the residue of the last course , so I crumbled two Oxo cubes into it and stirred . |
| 15 | The class structure is becoming dominated by the knowledge mercenaries who hire themselves out to the feudal barons of top management and state agencies , each of whom is as good as the last battle . |
| 16 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 17 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 18 | He was educated locally at the National School and later at Wesley College , Sheffield , before becoming apprenticed to a wool spinner , John Brigg . |
| 19 | And the process by which the contextualizing is carried out would itself invite interrogation and theorization ; Marxists committed to ‘ cultural materialism ’ would be impatient of a form of contextualizing founded in the history of ideas . |
| 20 | They usually need help in becoming disengaged from the eating process and let the child show independence . |
| 21 | Castells argued that since production units were increasingly leaving the western city for rural and Third World locations , the urban unit was becoming characterized as a location for consumption . |
| 22 | Brierly , the first Special Rapporteur on the Law of Treaties , proposed the rejection of all the traditional methods of becoming bound to a treaty in favour of a single , less formal concept of acceptance . |
| 23 | Although 1 Squadron can only be credited with directly killing 21 communist bandits , the constant bombing and strafing contributed to the destabilisation of the communist terror campaign afforded by the Chinese-backed guerrillas . |
| 24 | The visit starts with a demonstration and talk on woodcarving followed by a demonstration and talk on the work of a potter . |
| 25 | Although Liberals like Sir Richard Acland were becoming identified with the Campaign , the Communists remained hostile to Lloyd George and his Five Point Group . |
| 26 | ‘ With nearly two million television viewers a week becoming hooked on the World Scrabble Championships last autumn , interest in Scrabble is at its highest point ever , ’ said Ray Perry , of Scrabble 's makers Spear 's Games . |
| 27 | Whether in performing experiments , or in being directed to primary sources of evidence in history , or in becoming acquainted with the journal literature , or in designing artefacts to meet a design problem , we encourage students along the path of their own immediate experience . |
| 28 | Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted . |
| 29 | Looking equipped for a spot of gentle camping in the Dordogne but definitely not for dicing with dunes and wadis of the harsh landscape that lay ahead , they scorched on regardless , not for once wishing they had the half-track trucks or ‘ autochenilles that carried their predecessors . |
| 30 | In such situations , accountants need to be familiar with full life-cycle costing based on the experience-curve concept . |