Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not obvious how this can be guaranteed by bureaus competing for business in quasi-market conditions . |
| 2 | Reports indicated that it included strong guarantees of fundamental human rights , but that a number of clauses gave rise to heated debate , including proposed provisions allowing for detention without trial and for the postponement of local elections for five years . |
| 3 | A communiqué issued on July 4 at the end of a five-day meeting of the central committee of the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) announced agreement on wide-ranging political reforms , specifically ( i ) broadening membership of the party ; ( ii ) abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state ; ( iii ) separating the functions of party and state ; ( iv ) ending the one-party system ; and ( v ) strengthening existing mechanisms allowing for freedom of expression , of the press , and of association . |
| 4 | The disadvantage ( occasionally overwhelming ) is the capital cost , even allowing for relief in respect of interest charges and capital allowances for new buildings and other improvements . |
| 5 | That programme included the development of more accurate telescopes , together with auxiliary theories required for their use in astronomy such as those providing adequate means for allowing for refraction of light in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 7 | ( If you 're in this category , turn to our recipes for sponge pudding and porridge in Cooking for comfort on page 168 ) . |
| 8 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 9 | We , we felt at the end of the seventies that there was no question that the eighties was going to be a decade of increasing food shortages , and widespread famine , that is , people literally dying for want of food . |
| 10 | Fighting continues in many parts , and large numbers of people , especially children , are dying through lack of food and water . |
| 11 | Although this activity has traditionally been based in the UK , Spain and Germany are now taking the plunge as , Bonelli said , an increasing number of companies and government departments are outsourcing as part of rationalisation or downsizing projects . |
| 12 | The club is pressing for recognition of decompression sickness as an NHS liability . |
| 13 | They would be charged with specific tasks , such as monitoring discrimination , checking for ageism in job advertisements , creating a wider range of opportunities for older workers . |
| 14 | When Samuelson and Solow wrote of trading off inflation against unemployment , what they were implicitly postulating was a policy makers ' social welfare function , , from which could be derived social indifference curves . |
| 15 | To allow matching for proximity of mother 's residence to a nuclear establishment at the time of her child 's birth a further series of controls was selected from locally held hospital delivery registers . |
| 16 | In option two areas , attempts were made at eliminating through traffic in addition to reducing traffic speeds , particularly by using speed humps and parking rearrangements to create carriageway narrowings . |
| 17 | If you are applying for compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article , and the packaging , as we may need to see them later . |
| 18 | But now the club have found that on applying for renewal of permission to play at the same venue next season , the pitch has already been allocated . |
| 19 | Bankruptcy — Property passing to trustee — Joint tenants — Husband and wife joint tenants of property — Bankruptcy of husband — Wife dying after act of bankruptcy but before adjudication order — Whether joint tenancy severed before wife 's death — Bankruptcy Act 1914 ( 4 & 5 Geo. 5 , c. 59 ) , ss. 37 , 38(a) |
| 20 | The decision , which takes the form of adding the bird to Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act , follows growing evidence that captive-bred barn owls are prone to dying of starvation after release . |
| 21 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
| 22 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 23 | From the viewplate in the open booth that face looked out at Jaq , eyes twinkling like ice in chartreuse , a playful and predatory smile puckering the lips . |
| 24 | Yet the hunter , walking with gun on arm , thoughts only of killing and murder in his mind and his intent clearly expressed in his body language , is shunned in fear by all creatures who can . |
| 25 | He remembers a culinary repertoire consisting of kippers alternating with macaroni in tomato sauce . |
| 26 | The above prices include return travel from Dover and half board accommodation for 7 nights beginning with evening meal on day of arrival and ending with breakfast on day of departure from resort . |
| 27 | The above prices include return travel from Dover with 7 or 14 nights accommodation on a half board basis beginning with evening meal on day of arrival and ending with breakfast on day of departure . |
| 28 | The above 10 day prices include return travel from Dover for 7 or 14 nights in standard rooms on a half board basis beginning with evening meal on day of arrival and ending with breakfast on day of departure . |
| 29 | The above prices include return travel from Dover and accommodation for 7 or 14 nights in standard rooms on a half board basis beginning with evening meal on day of arrival and ending with breakfast on day of departure , except where * indicates bed and breakfast only in Prague . |
| 30 | Cast on stitches for a test piece , ending with carriage at right . |