Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After qualifying for the East semi-finals in impressive style , Essex beat Hertfordshire 3–1 and trounced Cambridgeshire 5–1 in the final , after taking a 2–0 lead at half-time . |
| 2 | Since qualifying as a Medau teachers in 1968 she has taught regular classes for adults , children and the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | Local authorities have been cooperating with the health authorities in the provision of community care schemes for several years under special arrangements for joint finance . |
| 4 | She fumbled , looking for the windscreen wipers in the unfamiliar car . |
| 5 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 6 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 7 | An alternative approach is to define words according to the sentence contexts in which they occur . |
| 8 | I have seen queues of students , many of them learning English through ‘ self-study ’ forming outside the test centres in Beijing just in order to gain an entry form for the next sitting of the TOEFL examination . |
| 9 | She scanned the houses in the streets , looking at the Christmas trees in gaily lit windows , the decorations that were hanging from ceilings . |
| 10 | We 'll be looking at the market leaders in the four most popular areas — word processing , spreadsheets , databases and utilities . |
| 11 | In June 1980 , Buster 's gonads had n't grown , Roger Mellie was still an eager trainee at the telly , Sid the sexist was leering at the dinner ladies in junior school and Mrs. Grady was n't such an old lady . |
| 12 | ( Well , you do n't get many soldier orchids growing between the paving stones in Manchester . |
| 13 | Doctors had been deeply worried about the 4,000 refugees from Prague , who had been camping in the embassy grounds in squalid conditions , surrounded by ankle-deep mud and sleeping in shifts on the available beds . |
| 14 | We 'll be going to the telephone lines in a moment or two to talk about these subjects , or anything else you wish to raise this Sunday morning . |
| 15 | BUSES rumbling through the city streets in 1986 could need 30 per cent less fuel than they do now to bring the cry ‘ standing room only ’ to impatient queues . |
| 16 | And what are large quantities of Bulgarian jam , French and West German cheese and British chocolate doing on the supermarket shelves in Asia and Australasia ? |
| 17 | At one stage he was travelling to the TV studios in London by bus and sleeping overnight at a rail station . |
| 18 | Firstly they prevent the bacteria that cause urine infections from sticking to the skin cells in the bladder and urethra . |
| 19 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 20 | The abandoned vine-terraces along the inland valleys , dried grey by the sun , look like the side of an amphitheatre ; much of the local retsina you think you are drinking in the village tavernas in fact comes from the mainland . |
| 21 | A comparison of the measured spectrum with that expected for antineutrinos issuing from the fission reactions in the reactor 's core reveals whether the antineutrinos have changed in any way en route to the detector ; muon- or tau-antineutrinos would not produce inverse beta decays . |
| 22 | I saw her flitting through the island trees in her Ascot gloves , for ever searching for Kew . |
| 23 | Edwards clocked his best 100 metres time , a wind assisted 10.63 seconds , while preparing for the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand two years ago . |
| 24 | They were crouching and sitting behind the hessian screens in the typing-pool . |
| 25 | To take the example of chalk , some of the most memorable days of my childhood were spent cycling in the North Downs in Surrey . |
| 26 | The perifoveal region of the right retina of rhesus R151 showing the labelled sites ( A'-D' ) corresponding to the injection sites in the cortex . |
| 27 | If the machine-readable data produced by other users are ever to become accessible to historians , and that produced by historians to other users , we need to begin thinking about the research processes in such generic terms . |
| 28 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 29 | As well as being a Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the House of Lords he sits as a judge , presiding over the Law Lords in the Appellate Committee when time allows . |
| 30 | Oxfam is working with the mining communities in San Pedro , the poorest part of the city , trying to provide basic facilities for a community where 27 per cent of the community have no access to fresh water . |