Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 2 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 3 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 4 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 5 | We heard that the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire stations lost far more men and aircraft than we did , and there was also a horrible story going around of an unfortunate rear gunner trapped in his turret as his plane landed , unable to get out and being roasted alive in full view of the ground crew , until a Wing Commander whipped out his revolver and shot him . |
| 6 | Drifting out of an open window , riding over a choppy bassline , comes the distinctive voice of Omar . |
| 7 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 8 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 9 | There were about 2,000 members by 1939 and after 1945 the ‘ friendly society ’ dimension was further strengthened by the taking out of an expensive private insurance scheme for players , which absorbed half of the income of the Association . |
| 10 | If the site chosen is in the opinion of the local authority not suitable for the carrying on of an offensive trade , being for example too near to residential properties then consent may be refused , or granted for a limited period or subject to conditions . |
| 11 | The section is dealing with contraventions or apprehended contraventions of section 3 , i.e. the carrying on of an unauthorised investment business . |
| 12 | EIGHT-week-old Zack Saltman , who fractured his skull in two places after falling out of an overhead baby cradle attached to a trolley in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court held that the delay in investigating and bringing proceedings against police officers involved in incidents arising out of an industrial dispute at Wapping in East London , amounted to an abuse of the process of the courts and the prosecutions were stopped . |
| 14 | Whilst this statement was made in a case arising out of an alleged assault on a pupil , its relevance surely extends to other punishments which are similarly controlled by the common law . |
| 15 | This descendant of the model owes its features to comments and discussion arising out of an academic conference ( PALA 1990 , Amsterdam University ) . |
| 16 | There were , however , three cases arising out of an original conveyance where a translation was necessary if the client 's chosen outcome was to be achieved . |
| 17 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 18 | The Government gave the go-ahead despite last week 's shooting down of an Italian relief plane . |
| 19 | ( b ) in requiring the measurement or weighing up of an historical problem . |