Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 11 October we find local party authorities demanding from peasants the delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye for maintaining ten children on the Volga . |
| 2 | He chewed his thumbnail as he walked , out of long experience keeping in mind the highest priorities : Ensure Body Not Moved and Ensure Next of Kin Notified before the Press got the story . |
| 3 | Firemen spent 24 hours keeping under control a fire in a barn which contained 80 tonnes of straw . |
| 4 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 5 | Luckily , Janice had already glanced away , her eyes circling with interest the splendid sitting-room . |
| 6 | Lady Bailey drew out the top letter of the other sheaf , almost teasingly , like an actress announcing on television the award for the Best Actress of the Year . |
| 7 | The brochures offer holiday homes costing from £55 a week and touring and camping facilities from as little as £3.60 a night . |
| 8 | On Jan. 11 the APL newspaper Zëri i Popullit claimed that the " slanders " were the work of Albanian emigrés seeking to foment an uprising in order to restore the monarchy . |
| 9 | She turned towards him , her head propped on her hand , and he saw the strong afternoon light shafting with gold the cropped brightly dyed hair . |
| 10 | The article was terminated by a line of words beginning with B. The empty reproduction of information ( a contagion of the Eighties ) does not contribute to rational knowledge and reasoned thought . |
| 11 | The palaeontologist was an Ezekiel calling to life the dry bones ; but in this case the old sign ‘ here be dragons ’ was apt , and the prophet was bringing diabolical creatures to life — perhaps a Frankenstein rather than an Ezekiel . |
| 12 | Luke stood up suddenly , his body like a savagely coiled spring holding in check an inner core of violence . |
| 13 | Conner Peripherals Inc has now finalised the deal under which Overland Data Inc takes over all manufacturing , marketing and engineering rights to the Cipher 995 9-track and T480 18-track tape drive product lines , as well as all Cipher brand and trademark rights ; the acquisition will immediately double Overland Data 's turnover to a figure running at $24m a year . |
| 14 | In the future I think we will see manufacturers choosing to emphasis the naturalness of the ingredients and the simplicity of the product 's application and use . ’ |
| 15 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 16 | Commenting on the thirty one thousand , er Mr 's erm er scenario , that the County Council would clearly think this to be erm unreasonable , it would clearly have regional implications er as I said earlier er in my opening remarks er the County Council would accept that it would n't be meeting its regional commitments , erm er it would be difficult in practice bearing in mind the level erm of commitment we 've got and there may well be local problems in in local housing markets with the level of er of growth er at that level . |
| 17 | This was an incredible result bearing in mind the general statistics of 98 per cent failure rates reported for most dieting attempts . |
| 18 | With the dreadful simplicity that orders the movement Hegel erected as a system , society trots along before my eyes reproducing to perfection the mechanism of the death struggle : the reduction of a ‘ person , to a ‘ nobody ’ to the position of ‘ other ’ — the inexorable plot of racism . |
| 19 | Within seconds of the Wheel disappearing from sight the red glow was extinguished . |
| 20 | Evidence commonly cited in support of this analysis is the close agreement found between persons who are asked to rank-order according to prestige a list of occupations . |
| 21 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | The rules were introduced in a memorandum from the Institute explaining to banks the duties imposed on them by the law on drug trafficking passed by parliament in July 1989 . |
| 23 | IBM Austin , or at least some faction there , is seriously interested in becoming a system software supplier — a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp and Unix System Labs — and sees remarketing Mach 3 as the way to do it , according to a report out of an OSF Research Institute meeting in Boston the week before last . |
| 24 | Hopefully with Mick O'Toole 's son Kieran acting as agent the rides should soon mount up and with them will come the winners . |
| 25 | Further , as the type of fire will be dependent on the contents , buildings are required to be compartmented by vertical or horizontal fire separation taking into account the anticipated risk and fire load . |
| 26 | Companies managing to buck the recession by having a good year include computer games manufacturers , cosmetics companies , food processors and shipbuilders . |
| 27 | There he stood , a bogus angel standing between God the Creator and the people He had created , as they crumbled back into the clay they were made from . |
| 28 | The body of the report starts with an opening statement There then follow sections and sub-sections discussing in detail the facets of the problem for which the report was written . |
| 29 | It may also seem unusual to report on 8% increase in exports of the metal manufacturing sector bearing in mind the rundown of British Steel 's activities in Scotland . |
| 30 | Golf : Betting folk rallying to Norman the good loser |