Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Government spends millions of pounds warning people about Aids yet the police have this incredibly sloppy procedure . ’ |
| 2 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 3 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 4 | It will also be of special interest to those in cruising areas like Italy where the government requires third party insurance for all boats . |
| 5 | Or leaving the dark glimmering interior in winter when the ice wind bit through your leggings , mittens and embroidered button holes . |
| 6 | Taking account of modules where the conditions leading to withholding approval have now been met , there are now around 380 modules being offered in the 31 centres — a successful validation rate of just over 55% . |
| 7 | For the moment , however , he allowed the affair to subside , partly because Spain herself appeared to be on the verge of civil war , and as a consequence even less attractive to any possible monarch , and partly because he was awaiting developments in France where the regime appeared to be entering a moment of crisis . |
| 8 | Because of the difficulty of assessing software before purchase i.e. the lack of objective reviews at the time and the fact that no " on approval " facilities were available , several bad purchases were made when software was first acquired . |
| 9 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 10 | The conditions attaching to grant are that the D S S transfer , eighty five percent of it has to be spent on the independent sector , and there are monitoring mechanisms in place whereby the government is going to assure itself that has happened . |