Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 2 | Except for Guyana and Bolivia , the latter were all sub-Saharan African countries qualifying for debt relief under the terms agreed at the 1988 Toronto G-7 economic summit [ see pp. 36123-26 ] . |
| 3 | Wrexham , Shotton , Flint and Rhyl are travel-to-work areas all qualifying for grant aid under a European Regional Objective designed to revive run-down industrial areas . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Peacock , the Tory MP for Batley and Spen and one of the leading rebels who forced a Government rethink on the issue last year , is pressing for Government intervention in the market to ensure a long-term future for coal . |
| 5 | The clamour begun earlier by the Japanese union had echoed around the world and seafarers ' unions in many countries were pressing for material recognition for the dangerous , difficult conditions in the Gulf . |
| 6 | Have you considered applying for research funding from the European Commission ? |
| 7 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 8 | A week later , Gould described the dramatic and exciting moment when , as he and his companions were returning from hunting kangaroo on a distant part of the Namoi plain , they approached a small group of acacia trees , and he met with the bronzewing once again : |
| 9 | Marxist arguments support this view , pointing out that cheap housing reduces the pressure on wages , allowing the labour force to reproduce itself despite low wages and in this way contributing to capital accumulation in the capitalist sector . |
| 10 | Where maturation is not synchronous , clinical signs may not occur but the adult worm burdens which develop can play a significant epidemiological role by contributing to pasture contamination in the spring . |
| 11 | The following are a selection of the many Acts , Circulars and other government publications relating to land use in the context of conflicting demands from development and conservation interests . |
| 12 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 13 | In addition the Commission has recently been given the power to adopt block exemptions in the insurance sector and to consortia agreements in sea transport and has proposed that it be granted powers to introduce block exemptions relating to air transport between the Community and third countries . |
| 14 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |
| 15 | The excepted proceedings , which are specified , are actions in defamation , relator actions , certain proceedings for the recovery of a penalty , election petitions , actions relating to judgment summons in the county court , actions in the county court where the only question is the time and mode of payment of a debt , and any incidental proceedings . |
| 16 | Zeigler et al. ( 1983 ) should be consulted for material relating to evacuation behaviour in the wake of the incident at Three Mile Island . |
| 17 | Those for whom free care might be extended should be only those with a realistic possibility of returning to self care in the community within two years . |
| 18 | He then went abroad , mostly to Italy , returning to Fen Ditton in the summer of 1652 . |
| 19 | I , I , something floated in front of my eyes that she was thinking of applying on part time for the complaint examiner , but she did n't . |
| 20 | Bloch , who had spent 30 years in the foreign service , gained international notoriety in 1989 when he became the subject of an intensive FBI investigation into allegations that he has passed classified information to the Soviet Union whilst serving as deputy chief of the US embassy in Vienna in 1983-87 . |
| 21 | The main character ( played by Natasha Richardson ) is dragooned into serving as breeding stock for a childless couple in the evangelical-state hierarchy . |
| 22 | In 1872 , on a visit to Egypt , she met Lieutenant Soøren Adolph Arendrup , a thirty-eight-year-old widower and Danish officer , who was serving as artillery adviser to the Egyptian army . |
| 23 | Editor , — In his comments on Richard Smith 's editorial on academic medicine Brian L Pentecost states that , so far as training for consultant practice in the NHS is concerned , all specialties accept one year of research towards higher medical training . |
| 24 | Wallich returned to India in 1838 as assistant surgeon in the Indian Army and saw considerable active service during the next nineteen years , taking part in the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns of 1842 and 1847 and acting as field surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion of 1855–6 . |
| 25 | He has a long list of Parliamentary posts , including chairing the Parliamentary panel on charity law , acting as deputy chairman of the foreign affairs forum and secretary of both the back bench arts committee and smaller businesses committee . |
| 26 | Philip Sessarago , who 's in his thirties , left Hereford late last year telling friends he was looking for security work in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | There 's Win , still carrying the cheeky pennants and slogans of ‘ 81 , boasting of chewing gum for the ears , expressing admiration for advertising jingles . |
| 28 | This is followed by iterative searching with Boolean logic on the current stack . |
| 29 | People living within walking distance of the track decorate their houses for the family cookout with checkered flags and banners . |
| 30 | Test rocks for suitability by soaking in tap water for a few days , checking hardness and pH before and after . |