Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wear on leather soled shoes was saved by sticking on over soles made from pieces of old tyre inner tubes . |
| 2 | Some of the common strategies deployed within lyrics , for instance creating the impression of the lyric 's reader as an intruder gazing voyeuristically into texts meant for private circulation , is one of the devices employed by poets to protect themselves . |
| 3 | There stretched before him a great expanse of mud-trodden grass , gleaming brokenly like water viewed from a height in the summer sun . |
| 4 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 5 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |
| 6 | One July day in 1943 at Blaconsthorpe , Norfolk , a born-deaf farm labourer named Kenneth Andrews was walking home from work accompanied by his wife , and carrying his young baby when he saw a R.A.F. Typhoon fighter plane crash in flames . |
| 7 | IV Winding up of companies registered under the Companies Act |
| 8 | NOTICE To : Smith & Jones ( Contracts ) Limited , whose registered office is situate at Coldharbour Road , Thames Marshes , Essex WHEREAS ( 1 ) You are justly and truly indebted in the sum of £1250 to Robinson Bros Ltd trading as Go Fast Transport whose registered office is situate at Cornmarket Chambers Ipswich Suffolk more particularly in respect of transport costs for the quick delivery of fragile machine equipment and related warehousing costs ( 2 ) By Section 517 ( 1 ) ( f ) of the Companies Act 1985 it is provided that a company may be wound up by the court if the company is unable to pay its debts ( exceeding £750 ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you pursuant to Section 518(1) ( a ) of the Companies Act 1985 that you are required to pay the said sum of £1250 to Go Fast Transport ( GFT ) not later than 3 weeks from tomorrow 's date AND that if you neglect to pay the said sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of GFT an application will be made to the court for your winding up by petition presented by GFT under the provisions of Section 519 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 9 | The judge held that the discretion under section 78 may be wider than the common law discretion identified in Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 , the latter relating solely to evidence obtained from the defendant after the offence is complete , the statutory discretion not being so restricted . |
| 10 | International trading in securities , that is , trading abroad in securities issued in Hungary or trading in Hungary in securities issued abroad requires a joint licence of the Hungarian National Bank and the Authority . |
| 11 | This project completes the analysis and writing up of material collected in an ESRC financed social anthropological study of the effects of women 's entry into waged employment in the city of Calcutta , India which was carried out in 1981-82 . |
| 12 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 13 | Micrografx staff drew attention to themselves by wandering around in gear stolen from the Mexican extras in a spaghetti western . |
| 14 | New Zealand lambs and dairy cows grow fat the old-fashioned way , by grazing in sunny meadows , not by munching bags of feed full of additives or wandering about on pastures drenched in chemical fertilisers , as their European and American cousins do . |
| 15 | His cousin , Francis Drake , who had also been among the survivors of San Juan de Ulloa , took a more aggressive attitude to the Spanish empire ; as an uncompromising Protestant he felt that his country ought to be at war with Spain and , if it would not do this , he would fight on his own account , looking round for people prepared to invest in a private attack on the wealth of Spain . |
| 16 | There was nothing for it but to accept defeat , which he did with an ill grace , stamping off in disgust followed by the jeers of the crowd and several small boys who ran behind him mimicking his rolling gait . |
| 17 | ‘ G ’ , while going down to second placed Marconi ‘ B ’ . |
| 18 | The company before going out of business entered into a " block discounting " agreement with the finance house . |
| 19 | Those responsible for contributory benefits are concerned with the paying out of amounts determined by a largely computerized central system . |
| 20 | The union , which is currently coming to terms with 7,000 job losses among railway workers , accused BR bosses of going back on guarantees made in 1984 . |
| 21 | He did n't look up as we crossed the room , his head bent and the pen moving swiftly across pages held in a clipboard . |
| 22 | During his American trip he took six wickets in six balls , bowling underarm against teams composed of twenty-two men from the USA and Canada . |
| 23 | Men riding past on donkeys called elaborate greetings to us . |
| 24 | His situation was not unlike Forester 's in that he was cold , sleeping badly and eating out of tins warmed on a small portable stove . |
| 25 | His actions in doing so in fact obstructed the police . |
| 26 | If a country has a current account deficit , then collectively it is spending more on things produced abroad than it is earning from abroad . |
| 27 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 28 | So far they have received nothing from the Government , little EC assistance and are running out of funds donated by individuals and industry . |
| 29 | Cheap electricity would soon be issuing forth from reactors fed by an inexhaustible resource — seawater . |
| 30 | Most of the popular books showing the Mesozoic giants in their natural setting portray them wallowing about in swamps flanked by deep vegetation , their bodies largely under water . |