Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ban on loans to institutions for buying shares was also lifted . |
| 2 | But the truth was that the popes employed armies of mercenaries or paid troops and that one of the reasons for raising money was to pay armies . |
| 3 | Khrushchev explicitly stated to me that one of his reasons for suspending tests was because he had studied the effect of the CND on the British public . |
| 4 | Moreover , director Paul Haines said that one of the London-based group 's tactics for boosting profits was to look for bargains among the competition — the stake in Total was bought at a very low price , he says — then buy a small stake , and cash it in . |
| 5 | She said that the traditional methods of maintaining hedgerows was another area in which she was involved . |
| 6 | The debate about " physical " and " moral " methods of obstructing fascism was largely terminated by the outbreak of the Spanish civil war in the middle of 1936 . |
| 7 | Tesco agreed that one of the great advantages of using headhunters was their speed in short-circuiting and short-cutting — but not skimping — all the work involved . |
| 8 | FIFTY years of making music was celebrated in style on Sunday by the Colchester Choral Society and the Colchester Sinfonia , enthusiastically conducted by Ian Ray . |
| 9 | In the days before locating equipment was available , I used my Norfolk long-spade to do this work . |
| 10 | The outcome was reported thus : ‘ a wealthy bullion dealer who patiently courted an out-of-work actress for five years without having sex was cleared yesterday of molesting her ’ . |
| 11 | A MAN who staggered from a wrecked block of flats in blazing clothes was being operated on in hospital last night . |
| 12 | One of Syl 's ways of expressing displeasure was by tightening the purse strings . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the process of converting names into dealing clients was time-consuming and costly , although it would have been far less economical still if the Department of Trade 's regulations had been properly adhered to . |
| 14 | The clinical features of the two groups as well as the subgroups in group A — that is , those who had calculi at the time sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed and those who developed calculi after sclerosing cholangitis was diagnosed , are shown in Table I. Because of the similarities between the two subgroups in group A , they are hereafter referred to as one group . |
| 15 | His hunch about the morals of blackmailing photographers was right . |
| 16 | The use of videos for updating purposes was probably a longer term aim . |
| 17 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |