Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then someone she did like , Mr. Middlemass , the Document Examiner , with his jacket slung over his shoulders , leaping up the stairs three steps at a time and calling out a greeting to the desk . |
| 2 | That said , for path walking in the hills this boot is first rate . |
| 3 | I make no complaint about such information being kept , but I am worried about it appearing on the police national computer when the original request had nothing to do with prostitution . |
| 4 | The auditors point out that ‘ the consolidated financial statements include £8.883m of net liabilities and a loss before taxation for the year of £13.069m relating to the subsidiaries subject to these proceedings . |
| 5 | 7.7.4 not to store or bring onto the Premises any article substance or liquid of a specifically combustible inflammable or explosive nature and to comply with the requirements and recommendations of the fire authority [ and the [ reasonable ] requirements of the Landlord ] as to fire precautions relating to the Premises Some tenants sell inflammable or what may be considered to be otherwise dangerous substances in the normal course of their business . |
| 6 | Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal . |
| 7 | Should a situation arise which , in the view of one side , represents a threat to peace or a violation of peace , or may give rise to dangerous international complications , then both sides shall contact each other immediately and strive to … achieve understanding on the measures appropriate to improve or overcome the situation . |
| 8 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 9 | Six data bits encode a character set consisting of the digits 0 to 9 , the letters A to Z , and a number of special symbols ( such as blank and comma ) , as shown in Figure 2.19 . |
| 10 | It goes wandering through the files unchecked , pulling open the drawers and scattering the papers , writing wild minutes of its own . |
| 11 | Save yourself the hassle of pushing through the crowds this Christmas by using this Products for Change catalogue , and remember we will promptly refund your money if you are not pleased with what you have received . |
| 12 | you and Audrey , during the war , and leave me looking after the kids all of them sitting round the fire . |
| 13 | He is an amateur photographer , living in a bare-knuckles gold-mining boom town called Matupa on the southern rim of the Amazon basin . |
| 14 | Part is earmarked for transfer to the impoverished peasant farmers living in the areas concerned . |
| 15 | defendant acquiescing in a plaintiffs inexcusable , inordinate and prejudicial delay in prosecuting an action was thereby debarred from having it dismissed for want of prosecution . |
| 16 | Writing in The Times Educational Supplement in early 1981 he observed |
| 17 | The great mass of them , those living on the lands unoccupied by nobility or church ( the so-called ‘ black ’ lands — as distinct from the ‘ black-earth ’ regions ) , owed allegiance only to the Grand Prince . |
| 18 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 19 | According to the managers five and a half days in this area . |
| 20 | It may look like an old garden shed , but according to the owners this is a historic building . |
| 21 | Of course the value of this varies considerably according to the resources available to the older generation . |
| 22 | According to the respondents all the disputes were resolved by an oral agreement which was concluded on 6 May 1988 whereby the first two respondents agreed to pay $100,000 to the petitioner and $50,000 to Omnicorp and it was agreed by all parties that the legal proceedings and threatened litigation with regard to all matters in dispute would be abandoned . |
| 23 | we have several divisions [ of sacrifice ] , both according to the persons concerned and the kinds of victim . |
| 24 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 25 | Table 8.4 gives an indication of the degree of social differentiation across London according to the characteristics available from the Population Census . |
| 26 | According to the police 19 Arabs were killed , but hospital sources spoke of 21 deaths . |
| 27 | Looking at the objects available is of little help , as it 's only by trial and error that the problem can be solved . |
| 28 | " If you do not have an existing service agreement with Olympus it is certainly worth looking at the options available — whatever type of instrument is in use . " |
| 29 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 30 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |