Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfortunate turn of events also threatened to disrupt plans for the Hamon Building , a 140,000-square-foot three storey annex slated for unveiling within less than a year . |
| 2 | That was the compliment I got for putting on red nail varnish . |
| 3 | However , they never recovered after crashing to 31-5 as Taylor took an Australian one-day record four catches and used his bowlers impressively in the absence of injured regular captain Allan Border . |
| 4 | Why then is David punished for counting in 1 Chronicles 21 ? |
| 5 | So anyway Norm mentioned about going to this one at erm Old Tammy , that one on the Old Road |
| 6 | He first ventured into retailing in 1964 because he was so disenchanted with the way his furniture was being displayed in the shops to which he supplied . |
| 7 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 8 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 9 | As Derek Fraser has suggested , they were of four main types : ‘ a fear of social revolution , a humanitarian concern for suffering , a desire to improve the moral tone of the recipients and a satisfaction of some psychological or social need ’ , i.e. a desire for the confirmation of social status and superiority which came from giving to those poorer than oneself , and perhaps basking in their gratitude . |
| 10 | What these men gained in return was the prestige and professional recognition that came from practising at one of the teaching hospitals . |
| 11 | She could therefore only love her sister more that , when it came to choosing between this most important interview of her career or flying to her husband 's bedside , Cara was n't hesitating to fly to where love and instinct guided . |
| 12 | But at the level of implementation such as totalizing conception of social disciplining often lacked precision when it came to dealing with specific problems . |
| 13 | The first picture that he painted on moving into 5 Shaftesbury Villas was a portrait of the Observer art critic Nevile Wallis ( Plate 15 ) . |
| 14 | As chairman of the Hull Dock Company Hammond superintended the creation of the town 's first enclosed dock , which opened for shipping in 1778 . |
| 15 | A man who collapsed with chest pains in Barnard Castle was treated by a local doctor before the ambulance arrived after travelling about 15 miles from Darlington . |
| 16 | At common law , affray consisted of fighting in public to the terror of innocent bystanders , or the display of force without actual violence but with the same effect on bystanders . |
| 17 | In 1892 he moved to London and graduated in mining in 1896 at the Royal School of Mines . |
| 18 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 19 | The workshop opened by focusing on particular aspects of social security . |
| 20 | She decided to while away the time until her family arrived by going through some reports . |
| 21 | busted for smoking in one of the loos . |
| 22 | Nearby at Carlungie is another souterrain discovered during ploughing in 1949,120 feet long and 6 feet deep . |
| 23 | The Austrian Habsburgs had made efforts in the same direction from the end of the sixteenth century , when the custom developed of sending with each internuncio to Constantinople a small number of boys ( Sprachknabe ) to learn Turkish . |
| 24 | At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language . |
| 25 | Thus , in many post–1923 paintings there is a heightened realism that borders on the photographic , as is evident in the large-format flower paintings she began to making in 1924. 18 By so changing the apparent concerns of her art , O'Keeffe intended to end criticism that centered speculations about the meaning of her imagery around the fact that she was a woman artist expressing emotions that had not visual precedents — which was , of course , the way Stieglitz had promoted her from the beginning . |
| 26 | He returned to teaching in Catholic schools , being chosen as the first African to teach at a seminary for future priests near Elmina . |
| 27 | A similar structure may be discerned in Del Giudice 's novels ( which tend to the episodic ) , but is decisive in another important book of the mid-1980s , Gianni Celati 's Narratori delle pianure ( Story-tellers of the plains 1985 ) , a book with which Celati returned to writing after seven years of ‘ silence ’ and critical and theoretical reflection . |
| 28 | He began by distinguishing between destructive mass phenomena , such as we have been discussing , and the destinies of individuals : ‘ Divine Providence … under the twofold aspect of General Law and Special Interposition . ’ |
| 29 | Section One began by asking for demographic information : gender , school , subject(s) taught , years in teaching and status in school . |
| 30 | These turn out to be old ideas — worn-out and discredited as solutions to conventional criminals — reinvigorated by appearing in new bottles . |