Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
| 2 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 3 | The company only began trading in 1988 for the refurbishing of high voltage equipment and its installation and commissioning . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 5 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |
| 6 | Council tax levels ranging from 294 for the lowest value property band to 882 for the highest have been proposed by Lothian Regional Council 's Finance Committee . |
| 7 | The 3000s support 2,300 users , less because of current limitations in the MPE/XL operating system for multi-processing , but TPS rates are higher , ranging from 114 for the 3000 990/100 up to 420 for the 992/400 . |
| 8 | Remember you 're going into this for the first time . |
| 9 | Eating supper early , we were asleep by eight , before waking at five for the dawn . |
| 10 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 11 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 12 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 13 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |
| 14 | In the eastern counties Snell examined ( Cambridgeshire , Bedfordshire , Huntingdonshire , Northamptonshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Oxfordshire and Hampshire ) female real wages were falling after 1760 for the sharply declining numbers still required . |
| 15 | While still in London she worked for many other causes , campaigning from 1869 for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts and organizing relief for the refugees from Turkish atrocities against the Bulgars in 1876 . |
| 16 | Lamb , dropped by Dujon on 30 , played splendidly thereafter , putting on 172 for the fourth wicket with Robin Smith , reaching his tenth Test century and fifth against West Indies , and finally falling for 132 . |
| 17 | At 200 for 6 , Malcolm got Moseley and Ambrose ran out Hooper , only to make amends by putting on 34 for the ninth wicket with Bishop which would prove vital . |
| 18 | Richards took the new ball — which did not shoot — and Ellison and Thomas played quite contentedly for two hours , putting on 72 for the last wicket , a new England record in the West Indies , taking the total to 315 . |
| 19 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 20 | The heads of the black-headed gulls were turning white now , and on the moorland the fur of the mountain hares was already moulting into white for the winter . |