Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | He comments : ‘ It is not a person 's maleness which constitutes that person the representative image of Christ , but a person 's having the sacerdotal character , the instrumental priestly power to perform those actions signifying the giving of divine gifts , a power deriving through ordination from Christ , the donor of God 's grace . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Riding up in the lift , she was prickling with heat from head to foot , intensely aware of his lean , powerful body beside her . |
| 5 | The party treasurer , Walther Leisler Kiep , was fined in May for tax avoidance relating to donations from industry to the CDU [ see p. 38199 ] . |
| 6 | She told the tribunal that she had been pressured and bullied into working after commercial pressures forced Franlow to start trading on Sundays from May 1992 . |
| 7 | At first he had under-estimated the consequences of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , returning to Baghdad from Britain last October to see two post-graduate students through their exams . |
| 8 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 9 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 10 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 11 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 12 | Returning to Bristol from Shurton , he and Southey stopped again at Mrs Southey 's house in Westgate Buildings , Bath , and as before found Sarah Fricker there to greet them . |
| 13 | By February the Attorney General and the Lord Advocate were advising that ‘ the Directive is capable of applying to transfers from government departments into the private sector ’ , a view which undermined the government 's previous approach of ‘ construing the Directive as narrowly as possible ’ ( The Guardian , February 16 , 1993 ) |
| 14 | It can be shown that electrons and ions co-rotating at distances from Jupiter greater than the Keplerian orbit of co-rotation ( section 6.1.1 ) tend to move away from the planet . |
| 15 | Local drainage authorities have continued to lower water levels for intensive arable and cattle farming despite warnings from environmentalists . |
| 16 | At this meeting the delegates agreed to set up a steering committee consisting of members from Germany , Holland , Italy and Great Britain , with John Young as Chairman . |
| 17 | Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates . |
| 18 | A project team consisting of staff from AEA and Warren Spring will examine details of the merger , including the number of Warren Spring scientists who will relocate from Stevenage to AEA 's Harwell and Culham sites in Oxfordshire , and the timing of their move to take their places in a fully-integrated operation . |
| 19 | Successful completion of a complex exercise such as this upgrade requires team work and a project team consisting of people from Services Delivery , Technical Services Systems Development and IBM have spent a considerable amount of time over the last few weeks to ensure that the upgrade when ahead without impact on Technology 's customers . |
| 20 | The social class gap in cigarette smoking between women from manual and non-manual households should be narrowed by 5 per cent . |
| 21 | Its leader , Fatos Nano , is looking for support from China , once Albania 's closest ally . |
| 22 | They 'll be looking for knock-downs from Chapman and Gary Speed , McAllister and Rod Wallace will all get in there . |
| 23 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 24 | Lobbying to sell products for which Japanese consumers are voting with their wallets will make a change from lobbying for lemons from Detroit . |
| 25 | Looking towards Kishorn from Ben Damph |
| 26 | The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage . |
| 27 | Since they had started paying ‘ interest ’ , they no longer woke up in the middle of the night squealing with fright from nightmares . |
| 28 | It will be training with staff from Cheshure County Council 's youth football development scheme at RAF Sealand today and the Kings School , Chester , tomorrow . |
| 29 | In a programme ranging in character from Willie was a Wanton Wag to the Englishman William Boyce 's rather inadequate attempts to sound Scottish in A Scots Cantata , Anderson 's understandable shortcomings could surely have been further compensated for by violinist Richard Gwilt , but inconsistent articulation coupled with a lack of incisiveness negated much of the music 's subtlety . |
| 30 | As on previous years , the start of the event which has come to be known simply as ‘ the ARC ’ was emotional : 121 boats ranging in size from 30ft to 75ft. ( 9 to 23m ) headed off for a transatlantic crossing to St Lucia in the Caribbean . |