Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 2 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 3 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 4 | He knew that the ditch would be dank with nettles and sour with rotting rubbish , the trees wounded by vandals , the trunks carved with initials , the low branches hanging torn from the boughs . |
| 5 | Neither is subcontracting confined to Japan , as many electrical goods producers , for instance , buy in parts from subsidiaries in South East Asia . |
| 6 | Dead birds were to be seen everywhere , and live ones , in quarrelling flocks , feeding on the burst stacks and blown seed-corn ; stabbing the cheeses that shone in the short winter grass ; pecking at the dried skeins of fish ; fluttering trapped beneath torn scraps of net . |
| 7 | This will also help to prevent the disks from becoming filled with obsolete files . |
| 8 | This method has two marked advantages : the production of the dye produces no density change or displacement of the flow ; and the dye gradually reverts to its previous state , so the system can be run continuously without becoming filled with dye . |
| 9 | It 's important to achieve a non-confrontation setting — with refreshments available , seating arranged in a circular pattern so as to avoid grouping staff and governors in a defensive posture behind a line of tables , or even worse , sheltering on the school stage . |
| 10 | Her body was stirring in response to the warmth of his , and Luke was becoming aroused in his turn . |
| 11 | It saves you from becoming under-insured as a result of inflation , with the risk of having to find thousands of pounds out of your own pocket in the event of a serious claim . |
| 12 | It is thus automatically kept up-to-date and , providing you were not underinsured to start with , you need no longer worry about becoming under-insured as a result of inflation . |
| 13 | These oolites were probably deposited as part of the coastal sand-barrier complex as it prograded basinwards , before becoming stabilised at the edge of the platform . |
| 14 | So when the male of such a species approaches a female hanging , large and menacing , on her web , or lurking hidden beside it , he signals to her by twanging the threads at one side in a special and meaningful way which he trusts the female will recognise . |
| 15 | Animals can also transmit infection on their bodies , as can insects ( e.g. flies becoming contaminated with faeces ) and many widespread epidemic infections are transmitted by blood-sucking insects such as the mosquito which causes malaria . |
| 16 | Absorption is commonly used as a method of odour abatement where odour nuisance is the result of a gas stream becoming contaminated with low concentrations of mixtures of compounds such as fatty acids , ammonia , amines , sulphur dioxide , and perhaps to a lesser extent sulphides and organic sulphur compounds , i.e . |
| 17 | According to whaling foreman Jakob Mohr , however , the pilot whales are now becoming contaminated with polychlorinatedbiphenyls ( PCBs ) and mercury , rendering them inedible . |
| 18 | It makes no sense to contemplate a general policy of reducing adverse events in people 's lives , even if it were possible , unless perhaps they were crises which might unavoidably lead to the person becoming trapped into a highly stressful lifestyle . |
| 19 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 20 | Storage on optical media is possible , using document image processing ( DIP ) technology , but standards for optical media are still very fluid , and we must avoid becoming trapped by non-mainstream hardware/software . |
| 21 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
| 22 | Any failure to develop and promote a range of options — or the production of services ill-suited to real needs — deepens the likelihood of casework becoming trapped in a rut of ‘ patch and mend ’ activities . |
| 23 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 24 | Sadly , large numbers of badgers in urban areas die every year as a result of being knocked down by vehicles , swallowing pesticides and becoming trapped in out-buildings and starving to death . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 26 | Three people were released by Billingham firemen after becoming trapped in a lift at Dawson House , Billingham . |
| 27 | The potash works continually has to raise its dikes , which hold water in evaporation pans , to prevent the pans becoming clogged with salts . |
| 28 | When she was sixteen , in the age of Gucci shoes and Lambrettas , and being taken by her father on birthday treats to his favourite trattoria in the King 's Road ( white lavatory tiles and low-slung lights , waiters singing ‘ O Sole Mio ’ and her father embarrassingly ordering due cannelloni per favore and molto formaggio for my daughter' ) , Molly was conscious of becoming attracted to men with a lot of black hair round the bracelets of their wrist-watches . |
| 29 | Alfieri senses that he might be becoming attracted to her , and that this is the root of the problem . |
| 30 | At the lower levels of the movement , however , many were becoming attracted to the prospect of ending the feuds of recent years . |