Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for old colleagues resenting his intrusion on their territory : ‘ Any external agent is going to be viewed with a certain amount of suspicion . |
| 2 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards , on July 31 , the central bank introduced a two-tier dinar/US dollar exchange rate according to which ( i ) the government would continue to provide dollars at an existing fixed rate for a specified list of imports ; and ( ii ) a separate free market exchange rate would prevail for commercial banks meeting their legitimate foreign currency needs . |
| 4 | DUBLIN 'S Tommy Carr has been banned for six months following his sending off in the recent National League Football final against Donegal . |
| 5 | Watched by a demonstration of 5000 jeering westerners at the Brandenburg Gate , and by Mr Willi Brandt , the then Mayor of West Berlin who referred to ‘ the vacant eyes of uniformed compatriots doing their duty on the other side ’ , the soldiers completed the first barrier in only a few hours . |
| 6 | The video does not have a lot to say about stress brought about by sexual harassment but it does rightly emphasise the importance of professional workers leaving their personal problems at home . |
| 7 | Both at home and at school , methodologies may fundamentally obstruct the negotiation of meaning and , in doing so , reduce the likelihood of deaf children enriching their language skills . |
| 8 | But the rest of Mr Foster 's vote looks soft , with many of the 1987 intake of Labour MPs switching their support to Mr Davies in protest at what they see as Mr Foster 's lax disciplinary regime over the parliamentary party . |
| 9 | Bird life has also been affected , with thousands of white-cheeked terns abandoning their nests in recent months , apparently because of the disappearance of the fish on which they feed . |
| 10 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 11 | In direct foreign investment the UK is marked by a high proportion of multinational companies having their headquarters in the country . |
| 12 | In 1990 I noticed in my community tank , a pair of Cardinal tetras performing their spawning dance . |
| 13 | Give him my compliments and tell him there 's at least one battalion of French skirmishers coming his way . |
| 14 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 15 | When a church has established the prior requisites , then it will be in a position to consider and experiment with a number of different approaches maximising their potential . |
| 16 | And lurking behind the smoke screen of public utterances justifying their case , there remained that most potent of sanctions , the strike threat , and with it the knowledge that employers would not defy the union by taking on and training outsiders to fill the boots of striking insiders . |
| 17 | This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre . |
| 18 | Being Saturday , there were a number of burly walkers picking their way over the granite from both directions which , unlike the presence of the bermuda-shorted brigade puffing their way up the other side of Ben Nevis , was curiously comforting . |
| 19 | A case study is a close study of real events reflecting their changing complexity and vividness , recording actual events , not what should happen . |
| 20 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 21 | The gentle caress of warm lips pressing her eyelids closed seemed part of the fantasy . |
| 22 | In turn , the Profitboss knows that he will be the first to be advised of personal issues troubling his team . |
| 23 | There were still people who saw the life of a modern university as ‘ some community of pure scholar-students pursuing their work regardless of its bearing on their subsequent careers , and of staff having the sole duty of inculcating appropriate habits of thought and advancing knowledge with no practical application ’ . |
| 24 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 25 | Similar parts for the tre nobilissime giovani Dame ( or a similar group at Mantua ) were composed by a younger musician at the Mantuan court , Claudio Monteverdi , whose Terzo Libro de Madrigali ( 1592 ) includes a number of such pieces exploiting their various skills . |
| 26 | It has presented a picture of a large number of upper-middle-class families drawing their substantial incomes from industry whilst moving in a milieu which extolled and practised the alleged virtues of the English gentleman . |
| 27 | Two hundred years ago , early morning watchers in the sand dunes could have been rewarded by the sight of male bustards inflating their throat pouches into balloons , and extravagantly flaunting their plumages to a bizarre extent in their efforts to attract a female ; white under tail feathers and white under wings were raised high , forced forward , almost turned inside out — and fanned invitingly . |
| 28 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 29 | Experienced travellers will know that the chances of these matters affecting your holiday are small , but at Club 18–30 we believe the the first time traveller should be prepared for some of the differences that may be encountered abroad . |
| 30 | DO N'T be surprised if you catch sight of these girls tapping their feet down the supermarket aisles , or across Alton 's Market Square . |