Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid however took only ten minutes and the thieves escaped undetected after sawing through iron bars on a basement window to enter , removing the eight works and fleeing in time to avoid the police cordon flung round the city . |
| 2 | Table 6.6 shows group scores for ( o ) in Braniel and Andersonstown , calculated for each variant according to following environment , using as input data of the kind shown in table 6.4 . |
| 3 | After dutifully inspecting the destruction at the El Azziziya barracks , where the Libyan leader lived , at the port of Sidi Balal and at Tripoli airport , as well as the damage done to the French Embassy and to civilian homes adjoining the target areas , Coleman left the media pack clamouring for phone lines at the El Khebir hotel or doing ‘ stand-ups ’ on the roof and went off on his own . |
| 4 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 5 | Conservative and non-conservative actions are identified by the form of the matrices appearing as coefficient arrays in the equations of motion . |
| 6 | Except for Guyana and Bolivia , the latter were all sub-Saharan African countries qualifying for debt relief under the terms agreed at the 1988 Toronto G-7 economic summit [ see pp. 36123-26 ] . |
| 7 | Wrexham , Shotton , Flint and Rhyl are travel-to-work areas all qualifying for grant aid under a European Regional Objective designed to revive run-down industrial areas . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Peacock , the Tory MP for Batley and Spen and one of the leading rebels who forced a Government rethink on the issue last year , is pressing for Government intervention in the market to ensure a long-term future for coal . |
| 9 | The clamour begun earlier by the Japanese union had echoed around the world and seafarers ' unions in many countries were pressing for material recognition for the dangerous , difficult conditions in the Gulf . |
| 10 | They make up twenty three per cent of those currently applying for council homes in the Forest . |
| 11 | Have you considered applying for research funding from the European Commission ? |
| 12 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 13 | A FAVOURITE fox hunt of the Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family has been banned from National Trust land after a joint master was found guilty of two offences of interfering with badger setts before a hunt meeting . |
| 14 | The first was handwritten , with certain nouns and verbs leaping into capital letters in the eighteenth-century manner . |
| 15 | A week later , Gould described the dramatic and exciting moment when , as he and his companions were returning from hunting kangaroo on a distant part of the Namoi plain , they approached a small group of acacia trees , and he met with the bronzewing once again : |
| 16 | Instead of appearing alongside party spokesmen at a packed lunchtime meeting of scientists , the Science Minister , Alan Howarth , sent a fax from his Stratford-upon-Avon constituency . |
| 17 | This kind of short-term priming effect ( occurring over interpresentation periods of a second or so ) is not the only form of priming , however . |
| 18 | Marxist arguments support this view , pointing out that cheap housing reduces the pressure on wages , allowing the labour force to reproduce itself despite low wages and in this way contributing to capital accumulation in the capitalist sector . |
| 19 | Where maturation is not synchronous , clinical signs may not occur but the adult worm burdens which develop can play a significant epidemiological role by contributing to pasture contamination in the spring . |
| 20 | The following are a selection of the many Acts , Circulars and other government publications relating to land use in the context of conflicting demands from development and conservation interests . |
| 21 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 22 | In addition the Commission has recently been given the power to adopt block exemptions in the insurance sector and to consortia agreements in sea transport and has proposed that it be granted powers to introduce block exemptions relating to air transport between the Community and third countries . |
| 23 | For the purposes of s 287(1) , the meaning of the term should be confined to releases not given for full consideration , on the grounds that such a limitation was required by the context of s 287(1) itself and by the provisions of TA 1970 relating to company distributions as a whole ( ss 233–237 and 282–286 ) . |
| 24 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |
| 25 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 26 | That Bill extracted from the King 's Cross Railways Bill those items of work relating to safety improvements at the London underground station at King 's Cross following the Fennell report on the King 's Cross fire . |
| 27 | In order to understand the changes which have taken place in the practice relating to family settlements since the Victorian days , a brief description will follow , first of the standard form of eighteenth-century settlement of land , and then an outline of a modern tax-saving settlement . |
| 28 | The excepted proceedings , which are specified , are actions in defamation , relator actions , certain proceedings for the recovery of a penalty , election petitions , actions relating to judgment summons in the county court , actions in the county court where the only question is the time and mode of payment of a debt , and any incidental proceedings . |
| 29 | Zeigler et al. ( 1983 ) should be consulted for material relating to evacuation behaviour in the wake of the incident at Three Mile Island . |
| 30 | The Trust would address all correspondence and updates relating to Wildlife Sites to the nominated person and if possible that person would be made known to other members of staff within the Department as the ‘ holder ’ of the information on Wildlife Sites . |