Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a cluster of courses in Suffolk that are ideal for a long weekend and a similar group in Norfolk for those arriving from the North . |
| 2 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 3 | greater satisfaction and rewards for those working in the NHS who successfully respond to local needs and preferences . |
| 4 | The commercial and business orientation which the public corporation ( as distinct from Ministry ) form of management was designed to preserve , was inevitably diluted by this process , though it remained an important part of the self-image of those working in the industry . |
| 5 | Recall that among the possible reasons for a loss of conditioned responding with a change of context was the generalization decrement that might be expected when the event designated by the experimenter as the CS is presented in a different context . |
| 6 | Hits are broken on the show and bands that have n't yet got a record deal are often booked to appear As a result of heavy plugging on The Hitman And Her , Virgin gave Sandra 's Everlasting Love a UK release , but as soon as it went top 40 the programme dropped it , claiming it was not about pop hits . |
| 7 | According to a survey of property valuers , 25% of those searching for a new home would prefer to live in an Avenue , while 20% would like a Lane . |
| 8 | This is a fascinating historical testament for specialist collectors , pianofiles , and the curious-minded , which offers some tantalising glimpses of great playing through a haze of appallingly bad ( mono ) reproduction . |
| 9 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 10 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 11 | According to a report published on Dec. 5 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , more than 5,000 people had been executed in Iran in the past three years , including some 2,500 during the last six months of 1988 coinciding with a crackdown on left-wing dissidents [ see pp. 36630-31 ] . |
| 12 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 13 | Some do so secretively , creeping in quietly among the swarm of busy workers , quickly depositing an egg in a waxen cell alongside those belonging to the builders and slipping out again unremarked . |
| 14 | ‘ It would appear the intention was to cause maximum disruption to those working in the city . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It would appear the intention was to cause maximum disruption to those working in the city . ’ |
| 16 | The Gulf crisis and economic recession prompted a fall in the number of individual working days lost through industrial action from 904,000 days in 1989 to 693,700 in 1990 — the lowest level of industrial action since 1946 according to a Labour Ministry report of late June 1991 . |
| 17 | The West is moving towards using military force to take aid to those suffering in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | With no daylight at all penetrating to the interior of the foundry , it looked more hellish than ever , its furnaces glowing fiercely in the smoky gloom . |
| 19 | She is even able to understand the apparently irrational , masochistic aspects of women 's psychology , by drawing on de Beauvoir 's implicitly psychoanalytic account of its power : ‘ Woman assumes her most delicious triumphs by first falling into the depths of abjection … the little girl takes delight in a masochism that promises supreme conquests ’ ( de Beauvoir , quoted in Rowbotham 1973 : 42 ) . |
| 20 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 22 | This legend was probably developed in emulation of those relating to the early years of the Goths . |
| 23 | The sea was not rough , but there was quite a heavy swell , and the noise of this breaking on the reefs and skerries to their left was daunting to the uninitiated . |
| 24 | As frailty increases that kind of basic tending by the family may ease the terminal phase for everyone , practically and emotionally . |
| 25 | In the roof space , check the thickness of the insulation ( the standard is now 100mm/4in ) ; look carefully for signs of woodworm , particularly around the hatch , and for any signs of damp entering through the roof covering , especially at the eaves . |
| 26 | An hour of easy plodding over the glacier found us on a hideously loose moraine which we climbed precariously , balancing on huge boulders held loosely in a matrix of soft cement . |
| 27 | The House voted in favour by 280 to 153 , nine votes short of the required two-thirds majority of those voting within the 435-member chamber . |
| 28 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 29 | This is not because the farm worker is any more of an individualist per se than his industrial counterparts — whatever the stereotypes — but because the circumstances surrounding the farm worker render individual action , rather than collective mobilization , the only realistic alternative for the majority of those working on the land . |
| 30 | It became evident in the course of analysing the submissions that a majority of those responding to the question objected not to the underlying principle but to the proposed time scale of 2–3 days . |