Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat . |
| 2 | Following his commission as flight lieutenant RAFVR he specialized in upper-air analysis and forecasting for bomber groups . |
| 3 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 4 | It is important to train your dog to accept grooming as part of its regular routine . |
| 5 | Leon Kennedy passed a hand across his face , drawing off expression and swallowing . |
| 6 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 7 | Mike Radford 's paper , Auditing for Change , reviews the work and effectiveness of the Audit Commission , arguing that the Commission has had a profound effect on the debate about the future of local government . |
| 8 | Farrell saw the smashed bone sticking through skin and material . |
| 9 | It has to be accepted that , in the short run , it is difficult to raise the skills , and therefore the value of the output of marginal workers ( marginal in the sense of their position in competing for work ) . |
| 10 | It decreases the possibility of , of getting out of that situation because you 've got so many other people against , against whom you 're competing for work . |
| 11 | The services offered are often generic and when it comes to competing for work from the SSD , ‘ being a Jack of all trades does n't fit easily into the contracting culture ’ . |
| 12 | They are competing for plum roles and staking their claim to be the No 1 box office attraction . |
| 13 | Dogs competing for championship points are entered in one or more of the regular classes for their breed . |
| 14 | Since N-Oct 5 proteins contain only the POU DNA-binding domain and lack the homopolymeric glutamine and glycine stretches ( see Figure 1 and 2 ) , it seemed possible that N-Oct 5 would inhibit N-Oct 3 by competing for DNA-binding . |
| 15 | Because they 're in the business of competing with other hospitals , competing for treatment , competing with doctors . |
| 16 | More than a museum devoted to one artist 's work ( like the Museum Picasso , or the Fundació Joan Miró ) , it will be competing for income and audiences with an increasing number of new museums in Barcelona : the stylish Centre d'Art Santa Mònica which cuts a dash on the tourist drag of the Ramblas ; a museum of contemporary art being designed by Richard Meier , to be squeezed into the dense Barri Gotic , as well as the National Museum of Catalan Art up on Montjuic , remodelled by Gae Aulenti , and currently under construction . |
| 17 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 18 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 19 | It would actually be competing for development that Selby wants for its own population . |
| 20 | However , the male platypus also makes use of it when competing for territory along a river , although its effect on rival males is not known . |
| 21 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 22 | Ethologists have followed Darwin in their prime concern with the evolution of species and the various forms of physical and behavioural adaptation that they have developed in the process of competing for survival . |
| 23 | Inglewood , California-based Locus Computing Corp , has introduced Transparent Network Computing environment , TNC , the latest incarnation of its transport-independent distributed systems architecture ( UX No 271 ) , which will be competing for space with similar technologies from NobleNet Inc and Covia Technologies Inc ( UX No 395 ) . |
| 24 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 25 | This stage involves ambivalence , love and anger competing for priority . |
| 26 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 27 | This period can be seen as almost a power struggle between the K M T and the C C P competing for peasant support , and the policy changes during this period reflect a change from mass mobilization and smashing local maximizing agricultural production . |
| 28 | Our proposals for developing this policy have been set out in the White Papers on ‘ Competing for Quality ’ in central and local government . |
| 29 | Allied to the Citizens ' Charter , Cm. 1730 , Competing for Quality ( November 1991 ) , seeks to subject government programmes to market testing . |
| 30 | The Government 's further proposals for market testing hospital ancillary services are set out in the White Paper ’ Competing for Quality ’ , and take account of representations received . |