Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are interested in pursuing the opportunity having read the sales pack , we would be pleased to discuss any questions you may have . |
| 2 | Jigsaws are a good purchase for the d-i-yer trying to build up a reasonably comprehensive tool kit . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 4 | … The prince going to see her every day . |
| 5 | All thoroughly unlawful but there is a limit to public patience when the law- abiding feel they are not protected by officialdom . |
| 6 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |
| 7 | She heard footsteps on the catwalk and peered up into the semi-darkness trying to get a fix on the German 's movements . |
| 8 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 9 | A statement charged with murder the trial having lasted five days . |
| 10 | By now the fire was crackling merrily , the flames beginning to soar up the chimney and cast brightness on the walls . |
| 11 | The board wanting to sell him ( or someone ) . |
| 12 | This was that although the District would be explicitly recognised as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses throughout the rural areas scheme , if any class wished to have a Chapter III category course organised by the Cambridge Board the WEA would agree to the Board assuming providing powers for the purpose of meeting the wishes of the students in the class . |
| 13 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 14 | The creditor having instructed the court , the bailiff 's officer asking on his behalf moves to distrain against the debtor 's goods . |
| 15 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 16 | Both versions will be in the UK this April , with the saloon looking to tempt everything up to Lexus buyers with an all-in price of around £28,000 and the coupe out on its own at around £30,000 . |
| 17 | Failure to do so will mean that your efforts in negotiating long-term security of tenure might be in vain , as you could eventually find the shareholders deciding to bring your contract to a premature end and discover that you are unable to claim compensation for the full period during which you expected to work . |
| 18 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 19 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
| 20 | She 'd spent the rest of the afternoon trying to find out all she could about leukaemia , and the funny disease Dr Kent thought Bobbie Cole had . |
| 21 | First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming . |
| 22 | We had one hit record , Tragedy , a million seller , and spent all the money trying to get some more ! |
| 23 | Within a year the fundraising campaign , which included selling note cards and T-shirts , had been completed , much of the money having come from local businesses and foundations . |
| 24 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 25 | Where 's the money going to come from . |
| 26 | But Liberal Democrat candidate Ian Cameron described the manifesto as sketchy and added : ‘ Where is the money going to come from and what good is it going to do ? ’ |
| 27 | Was the sinister influence of the Temple beginning to work its effect ? |
| 28 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 29 | When are the courts going to realise that the public wants sentences that fit the crimes ? |
| 30 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |