Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 2 | ‘ We are bringing Danu into the twentieth century . ’ |
| 3 | When they had finished unloading , Therese said , ‘ My coco , I shall be helping Loulou for the next week or two , I do n't like leaving him much when he 's working on those big things . |
| 4 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 5 | The horrors of eighteenth-century madhouses engender disbelieving revulsion in the twentieth century , yet throughout the last thirty years scandal after scandal has been reported in the press with depressing regularity and without the concern that might have been expected in an apparently liberal and caring society . |
| 6 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 7 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 8 | Alongside all this , gaining momentum in the second half of the century , was a new taxonomic and labelling zeal which attempted to classify ‘ scientifically ’ the characteristics and increasingly the aetiologies of the forms of sexual variety , and in so doing helped construct them as objects of study and as sexual categories . |
| 9 | It is the equivalent of a bill becoming law after the Second Reading . |
| 10 | , The NRA has announced a " disturbing " rise in prosecutions of companies and individuals for polluting water over the last two years . |
| 11 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 12 | The latest suggestion is that three clubs be relegated from the Premier Division next season , with only one gaining promotion from the First Division . |
| 13 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 14 | We 'll even give you free glazing insurance for the first 12 months . |
| 15 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 17 | Mopping : Perhaps the best method for large areas is to use a kentucky mop as part of a two bucket mopping system with the first bucket filled with cleaning solution and the second with hot clean water . |
| 18 | Acquiring fitness over the next twenty-two months was not easy . |
| 19 | Meeting Sien for the first time and getting to know her was like knowing ‘ a fellow creature as lonesome and unhappy as myself ’ , no more and no less . |
| 20 | Contact has been made with professional and educational institutions in many of the other Member States and CIOB members are now seeking recognition through the First General Directive in a number of countries . |
| 21 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |
| 22 | A fountain pen is a writing instrument , metonymically ‘ fountain ’ relative to its reservoir , non-dip implicitly in its connotation , constituting a magnetic focus of cascading libido to the last drop , paradigmatically self-dipping in a Reichian sense . |
| 23 | This was the single most important legislative intervention addressing sexuality throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Yet even Mussolini , or his ghost-writer Gentile , paid lip-service to the term by defining Fascism in the next sentence , as organized , centralized , authoritarian democracy . |
| 25 | He has just noticed they are serving coffee on the next floor up . |
| 26 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 27 | The outcome of the illness in children admitted to hospital was recorded as clinically improved , clinically worse , or causing death before the fifth day after entry into the study . |
| 28 | Once we have paid the claim , consideration should be given to pursuing recovery against the Third Party , by way of the Subrogation condition in the policy . |
| 29 | Went through to Russell and certainly a good overlap from Lawrence his score is eight runs , so a hundred and twenty seven for four and now describing play for the next twenty minutes we 've got John Adnew . |
| 30 | The project aims not only to resettle youngsters who struggle to lay down roots in the capital , but to stop them heading South in the first place . |