Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provincial landscape of factions and fractions — localities squalling in impotence , absurdly competing for crumbs of resources , with no incentive to collaborate — is of course its own creation . |
| 2 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 3 | The ‘ Office of Innovation ’ ( OI ) transcends the interests of individual departments , thereby allowing for cross-fertilization of ideas among divisions . |
| 4 | Slough , Berkshire-based T IS Ltd has launched a telephone call logging system aimed specifically at UK local authorities : dubbed Genesis MX , the system is claimed to produce cost centre recharge reports and time-to-answer reports in line with Citizen 's Charter recommendations ; personal computer-based , the product is also claimed to provide flexible recharge reports ( allowing for cross-billing of departments ) which can be linked to micro and mainframe systems for automatic accounting ; no word yet on list price , but T IS is also introducing a rental scheme for the system . |
| 5 | A draft Article allowing for amendment of treaties through subsequent practice of parties ( not third parties ) was rejected at Vienna as likely to promote uncertainty and instability in the performance of treaties . |
| 6 | A further stereo jack provides a side chain insert point , allowing for items like equalisers to be connected to make the compressor sensitive to certain frequencies — for example when ‘ de-essing ’ ( removing unwanted sibilance from certain words ) . |
| 7 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP BIRD IN HAND STOP AVIARY CONFIRMS SPECIMEN IDEAL BUT WILL REQUIRE SOME WEEKS FOR TRAINING PRIOR TO MIGRATION STOP SUGGEST YOU BEGIN FEATHERING NEST IN SUITABLE HABITAT TO FACILITATE LAYING OF EGG STOP SPECIES OBSERVED TO LIMIT MIGRATORY FLIGHTS TO 2000 MILES WITHOUT REST FOR FEEDING STOP THIS FIGURE NOT ALLOWING FOR ATTACKS FROM PREDATORS SO MUST BE CONSIDERED ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM STOP PLEASE ADVISE SOONEST STOP MESSAGE ENDS STOP WED 0900 GMT |
| 8 | The RCC also announced an amnesty to all Kurds " except those " who committed murder , rape and looting during acts of riots and treason " . |
| 9 | The Errol Flynn looks crumbled with age , and the man whose strike rate in first-class cricket was better than O'Reilly 's , Mailey 's or Grimmett 's entered the twilight world of trampdom under the bridges of the Yarra , drinking meths and fossicking for food in garbage-bins . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's always summer and you 're walking through fields of daisies . ’ |
| 11 | Every day I have the Heads of other Departments in here bellyaching about lack of resources , asking for replacements or new appointments . |
| 12 | He recognized each draught of icy air slicing through cracks in doors made invisible by crowding shadows . |
| 13 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 14 | To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 15 | It is therefore necessary when conducting a survey of a flat to examine the lease to see what each owner is liable to pay for the upkeep of the building as a whole , to cross-question the managing agents on foreseeable charges , and to make some assessment of the state of the structure as a whole by looking in the roof space , checking for cracks in halls , staircases , basements and external walls . |
| 16 | Notes for the guidance of centres on the procedure for applying for approval of programmes leading to the HCIMA Professional Certificate or Professional Diploma . |
| 17 | Notes on applying for credits for Areas of Study and exemption from specific requirements of the HCIMA professional qualifications . |
| 18 | Then , as papal legate during the years when Anselm was abbot of Bec , he had shown endless energy storming through France on visitations , and sending offenders scurrying to Rome . |
| 19 | a child dying after birth from injuries received as a foetus is not to be considered as a ‘ person ’ dying in consequence of personal injuries for the purpose of the damages(scotland)act 1976. thus a claim from parents for loss of society fails . |
| 20 | I was dying of jealousy for guys whose faces were just cratered with seeping yellow pus . |
| 21 | Dave and Alice Fernie were walking like a-couple of children down the private side of Boundary Drive . |
| 22 | They were supposed to heighten our perceptions , but really I could see little difference between my ordinary vision of life , which was fantastic enough , and what the pills apparently produced , mainly a nervous sleeplessness shot through with incoherent babblings and bursts of laughter alternating with floods of tears . |
| 23 | And they resented the cliche of representing the success of the band by a series of brief musical sequences alternating with shots of trains , because their clapping accompaniment was interrupted as soon as it began . |
| 24 | [ complete report quoted — three pages , ending with signatures of members of the medical team ] |
| 25 | Watch out for those returning with tails between legs before mid-season . |
| 26 | Generations of British people have been happily walking into pubs for years and drinking alcohol that they could buy for a fraction of the price in a supermarket or off-licence . |
| 27 | It was like walking into Chicago at times in Walsall and the snowdrops as they used to call their military police with the white steel helmets on they used to ride around in jeeps . |
| 28 | ‘ Six-year-olds are n't exactly brimming with curiosity about gays and lesbians — or sexuality in general . |
| 29 | Well I 've seen I 've seen guys walking along balconies with joints in their hands , you know smoking the joint as they 're walking along . |
| 30 | To be sure , this contrast is over-stated , and academic fields have periods of relative stagnation and sudden revolution , just as professional ones can evolve almost without anyone noticing in response to shifts in practice . |