Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " 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 | AMERICAN born Lisa Price , now living in Llanidloes , has been appointed sales manager for Radio Maldwyn , and is successfully canvassing for advertisers in time for the independent local radio station 's launch on July 1 on 756kHz medium wave . |
| 3 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 4 | Taken together these two relationships will improve on the current single relationship by allowing for shifts in consumer spending between commodities with different amounts of value added . |
| 5 | Allowing for stations under construction but yet to be commissioned , the board needs no new plant to be in place until 1997 in this scenario for energy growth . |
| 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 | It should be emphasized that private markets have remained the main source of financing for countries with balance of payments problems . |
| 9 | The RCC also announced an amnesty to all Kurds " except those " who committed murder , rape and looting during acts of riots and treason " . |
| 10 | You 're speaking as a supporter whose team has suddenly came good after years of mediocrity , not one whose team is struggling after years of success . |
| 11 | We are driving through parts of Brixton that look like they 've never seen daylight . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's always summer and you 're walking through fields of daisies . ’ |
| 13 | The second is the peak experience of ecstasy , which is not a habitual state but rather rare at first , occurring between periods of calm and emptiness and dryness . |
| 14 | The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence . |
| 15 | Huddled together in the barns of the cortijo and fed on doles garlic soup when they were employed , half starved at home the slack seasons that are the concomitant of extensive monocultures , the Andalusian braceros were a primitive revolutionary class , unique in Europe , alternating between waves of exaltation and fatalistic ‘ Moorish ’ resignation to misery . |
| 16 | He recognized each draught of icy air slicing through cracks in doors made invisible by crowding shadows . |
| 17 | His solicitor , Miss Ranj Matharu of Doberman 's , confirmed yesterday that Mr Gooch was pressing for damages for slander . |
| 18 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 19 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Solicitors will lose their monopoly on applying for grants of probate to deal with wills . |
| 22 | Solicitors will lose their monopoly on applying for grants of probate to deal with wills . |
| 23 | Her job is to encourage more women to consider a career in engineering by making links with potential employers , engineers and , most importantly , looking at ways of increasing the number of women students applying for places on engineering courses . |
| 24 | Notes on applying for credits for Areas of Study and exemption from specific requirements of the HCIMA professional qualifications . |
| 25 | Killing of " infiltrators " from Jordan — Stabbing of Israelis in West Jerusalem |
| 26 | During the course of the meal we 'd reduced the blighter to the proportions of a couple of pillows , not to mention disposing of portions of chicken kalija and fish pakora to start , followed by garlic chilli chicken , lamb pasanda , a single portion of pulao rice , and side dishes of Bombay potato and sag panir to accompany . |
| 27 | Excellent progress was made in disposing of properties in Arizona when the market was considerably more bullish . |
| 28 | In the play , which was to tour Britain before running in London 's West End , Crawford was cast as Runnicles , a bank clerk given the task of disposing of piles of pornography that is delivered to the manager and his wife . |
| 29 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 30 | Like the previous management of the Dee Hall , he prided himself upon being ‘ a good employer ’ and was generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems . |