Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 6 the Minister of Tourism , Maj. Mihai Lupoi , was dismissed for allegedly protesting at the transfer of buildings used by his ministry to other bodies . |
| 2 | A sticker is earned for initially sitting on the lavatory for the required length of time . |
| 3 | If a volume is rejected the formatted modules will not be saved , however all modules contained in rejected volumes will be hard copied again at a later date but they will be the last to be considered for hard copying during the HC FORMATTER 's next run . |
| 4 | ‘ In our research , we found disabled people were being discouraged from even thinking about setting up in business , ’ she said . |
| 5 | However such applications must be looked at carefully bearing in mind the whole environmental question . |
| 6 | It is a versatile resort offering everything needed for a relaxing sun and sea holiday , but it is also surrounded by much waiting to be explored . |
| 7 | The nations of Europe , increasingly taken up with their own military and economic problems , responded by increasingly withdrawing from any attempt to exact further concessions . |
| 8 | Obviously many of the major objections raised here could be alleviated by simply bolting on a full QWERTY keyboard using full-travel keys this is surely not the ideal answer . |
| 9 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 10 | Meredith 's sympathetic understanding did n't register on him at all and , judging by the malevolent turn to his sensually modelled mouth , he was absorbed in mentally tearing to shreds whoever had stood him up . |
| 11 | It can not even decide its own procedures ( and has been prevented from so doing by the Conseil Constitutionel ) . |
| 12 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 13 | The choice of this unyielding , deeply religious man for this particular post was a sharp reminder that , when it came to how Spaniards viewed their own country and the outside world , and to how outsiders would see Spain , their opinions would still be shaped from above according to the scale of values which had informed the Franco regime from the start . |
| 14 | This is best done by systematically working through a given series of points on a data sheet ( Figs 5.43a , b and 44 ) , particularly at the start of a project . |
| 15 | Ravished by a sunny afternoon , a pool set with palm trees and a jug of wine with a good-looking young doctor , she had agreed without even thinking of the drawbacks . |
| 16 | The first three kinds of honorific were clearly distinguished by Comrie ( 1976b ) , who pointed out that traditional descriptions have often confused ( i ) and ( ii ) : the distinction is that in ( i ) respect can only be conveyed by referring to the " target " of the respect , whereas in ( ii ) it can be conveyed without necessarily referring to the target . |
| 17 | However , as most of you are only used to leisurely paddling for an hour or two in low drag vessels , please consider your decision carefully ; rafting is physically and mentally demanding and pushes mind and body to the limit . |
| 18 | Every day , we make countless decisions — decisions based upon either clinging to the past or reaching for the future . |
| 19 | This subtly psychological approach , no doubt based on much headbanging in the advertising agency , was nonetheless open to parody ( see pages 82–3 ) . |
| 20 | Mucking out and feeding the beasts , although a chore , was nothing compared to actually getting on top of them , entrusting one 's breakable frame to such unreliable support . |
| 21 | Thus it is an open system rather than a closed one and its behaviour can not be understood by simply looking at the relationship between inputs and outputs . |
| 22 | The police say the the Baroness was dealt with properly according to the law . |
| 23 | The first and hardest lesson of Darwinism , that there is no such teleology at all , and that there is no orchestral score provided from anywhere according to which human beings have a special part to play , still has to find its way fully into ethical thought . |
| 24 | A peculiarity of the British context — and a possible strength for its future — is that this sort of encouragement may be found without even looking across the English Channel , though generally by looking away from England . |
| 25 | The 44-year old was found at 8am lying in Birkhall Parade , in Aberdeen 's Mastrick housing estate . |
| 26 | Staggering to my feet , soaking but triumphant , I was greeted by loud clapping from the far bank . |
| 27 | They stared silently out at the gentle panorama until their reveries were interrupted by loud barking from the graveyard . |
| 28 | A considerable body of law has developed since then dealing with both the circumstances in which the Court will or will not award interim damages , and the principles which are to be used in assessing what level of award should be made . |
| 29 | These enable racist statements to be formulated without ever bringing into awareness the racist predicates on which the statements are grounded . |
| 30 | The test meal contained 12 ml lactulose and was eaten after overnight fasting by each subject within five minutes , again 20 minutes after insulin injection . |