Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 2 | Gordon Durie stole down the right and seeing the defences lack of organisation , he blasted in a low pass which McCoist drove home first time . |
| 3 | When two geologists were discovered surveying the hills north of Machynlleth , their landrover was chased along mountain roads until cornered by angry farmers . |
| 4 | He was knighted on 11 April 1553 and was one of the City fathers signing the letters patent of Edward which made Lady Jane Grey queen . |
| 5 | He was a member of commercial deputations to the council , one of the City élite who gave nominal assent to the accession of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] by signing the letters patent of 1553 in her favour , and then one of those organizing the defence of London in 1554 on behalf of Queen Mary against rebels led by Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | On April 23 Danov announced a criminal investigation against Faks , which was generally sympathetic to the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the former communists ) ; also placed under investigation were the parliamentary review Debati , for publishing on April 17 a list of Bulgarian diplomats who had been secret service agents , and the weekly Reporter 7 , for publishing the police file of an alleged secret agent . |
| 7 | TV company Carlton Communications , which takes over the Thames franchise in January , is looking good with analysts forecasting a profits increase of up to 16% , at £103m . |
| 8 | If we genuinely want to participate in the population debates , as opposed simply to joining the chop-off-their-willies brigade of population controllers , then we must try to understand those reasons . |
| 9 | The David Cohen British Literature Prize is a joint venture involving the Arts Council of Great Britain , the banking firm Coutts & Co and the David Cohen Family Charitable Trust . |
| 10 | An enlarged trade deficit was more than offset by remittances , capital inflows and invisible earnings in 1989 creating a balance-of-payments surplus of Bel$22,700,000 . |
| 11 | Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him . |
| 12 | and but when it comes to actually organising the police control of the survey sites , we , we speak to the erm traffic inspector at wherever it is . |
| 13 | Like the crowd at the airport and in the main street of Danu waving the malai flag of green and white . |
| 14 | He recommended that the ‘ upper ’ country , meaning the highlands east of and including Wallowa Lake , be granted to the Nez Perce ; and the ‘ lower ’ country , meaning the westerly Grande Ronde valley where white settlers were concentrated , remain open to settlement . |
| 15 | Class II : Class 2 modems are a little smarter and have much the fax protocol implemented in hardware inside the modem thus relieving the comms software of some of the chores . |