Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long , both sides were accusing each other of breaches of the agreement , and in the autumn of 1931 , while Gandhi was in London for the second , inconclusive , Round Table conference , civil disobedience and political violence broke out again . |
| 2 | We shall be seeing some comparisons of developments with controlled and uncontrolled disturbances in Figs 18.9–18.12 . |
| 3 | It would also open the economy to world trade by allowing easier conversion of roubles into hard currency and repatriation of hard-currency profits . |
| 4 | And so Ian went north to Barnsley but , after completing another century of appearances for The Tykes , his link with Palace was re-established in June 1984 when he joined Steve Coppell as Assistant Manager here at Selhurst Park , and helped to fashion the team that restored 1st Division football at The Palace in 1989 , although by the time of Palace 's promotion , Ian had taken over as Manager of Swansea City . |
| 5 | Our study identified 167 firms auditing this population of companies in 1992 . |
| 6 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |
| 7 | It was not simply a question of equating total stock of houses with that of households , but with ensuring that individual aspirations could be satisfied . |
| 8 | However , instead of checking this chain of results for every concrete example where we seek to prove uniqueness of factorisation , it would be better if we could isolate the essentials behind these theorems leaving us in each specific case only these essentials to verify . |
| 9 | This may seem a harsh sentence , but it does highlight how literary studies often seek to purify its canon either by exclusion or , more readily , by representing uncomfortable aspects of texts in ways which reduce their conflict with twentieth-century liberal values . |
| 10 | The needs of harvest and vintage , the expense of keeping large numbers of men in arms and the reluctance of some of the leading French nobles to fight against princes who , like themselves , had taken the cross , all combined to persuade Philip , despite his dramatic gesture at Gisors , to ask for another peace conference . |
| 11 | For example , often firms will receive quantity discounts when they are purchasing large quantities of goods for manufacture or resale . |
| 12 | The results will be discussed here because they lead to an interesting speculation upon the optimum level of investment in R&D and identification of variables explaining major proportions of variances in indicators of success . |
| 13 | Somebody called Paul Hamlyn has started contributing curious caricatures of authoresses to the Sunday Times Books section . |
| 14 | Holes in each card representing one row of tufts in the carpet , instruct the Jacquard loom which colour to weave . |
| 15 | We met one nomad driving 40 head of cattle in the baking sun , hours from the nearest village . |
| 16 | Choreographers however should avoid what can be called a purely technical analysis of the music by matching particular patterns of steps to particular musical phrases whenever they appear . |
| 17 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 18 | Lee was poking about , knocking dusty packets of seeds off the shelf and moving flower pots . |
| 19 | He also admitted keeping indecent photographs of youngsters in the society 's files . |
| 20 | The first was the advisory team 's preference when the Authority introduced enhanced staffing as a strategy , while the second , being the traditional way of using extra pairs of hands in most contexts other than nursery , was the initial preference of many schools . |
| 21 | Ronald Li , the former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange , was convicted on Oct. 24 on two counts under the colony 's Bribery Prevention Ordinance of accepting preferential offers of shares in Cathay Pacific Airways and Novel Enterprises in 1986 and 1987 in return for helping to obtain listings for the companies on the stock exchange . |
| 22 | To International industrialists , mere thoughts of transporting total contents of factories from one side of the world to the other would create nightmares . |
| 23 | The plain-clothes goons lounge in the lamplight below , and above them , children work patiently through the evenings , tending this rampart of candles against the wind . |
| 24 | Over a thousand years ago the Phoenix King Morvael introduced a system of training large bodies of troops to be called up from the populace . |
| 25 | Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures . |
| 26 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 27 | In contrast the American pairings were a mere nine under par between them , albeit on an afternoon when the wind was swirling around the course causing all sorts of problems with club selection . |
| 28 | A predominance of occupational unions leads to highly fragmented unionism and ideological and religious divisions also make for duplication of union organisation , thereby weakening bargaining potential and often making for difficulties in promoting effective representation of workers in individual establishments . |
| 29 | Time and again he split the party , castigating one group of opponents after another — the ‘ Economists ’ , the Mensheviks , the Bogdanovites . |
| 30 | According to the Soviet news agency Tass the two discuss " the problem of promoting mutual exchanges of views on the Palestinian issue " . |