Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction . |
| 2 | Before Raymont works towards ‘ ways of showing respect , understanding and affection to members of the opposite sex ’ , she should realise that the opposite sex 's obsession with ‘ members ’ is a problem of enormous gravity . |
| 3 | At the heart of Awakenings is a journey into the unknown , a journey which it suggests can only be undertaken with faith , understanding and dedication to humanity in all its ravaged , tormented wonder . |
| 4 | F1 You are an experienced dinghy sailor who regularly sails with novice crews and who has also spent at least six days living and sailing as crew on a small sailing cruiser . |
| 5 | Where cover is arranged for ‘ All Risks ’ in respect of personal effects and clothing the policy will automatically cover the cost of replacing and fitting of locks of external doors of the dwelling following loss of keys by stealing for a limit of £250 . |
| 6 | The awards recognise excellence in writing , publishing and broadcasting in relation to food and drink . |
| 7 | This phase was characterised by a series of events , the more important of which included : cementation and replacement by anhydrite , which accompanied the dehydration of adjacent gypsum formations to anhydrite ; leaching and calcitisation of dolomite in response to decarboxylation of organic matter ( late leaching ) ; and cementation and replacement by halite , triggered by mobilisation of underlying salt deposits ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 8 | On 1 December , just three weeks before the disaster , a DIA DITSUM stated that ‘ reports of surveillance , targeting and planning of actions against US persons and facilities are continuous ’ . |
| 9 | There was much coming and going and shaking of hands before a lurid calendar of a glossy , tanned blonde in a jungle setting . |
| 10 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 11 | for example , bifurcation is a policy which has been occasioned and encouraged by the conjunction of overcrowding and lack of resources in an ideological atmosphere of ‘ law and order ’ and legitimacy crisis , but it was not inevitable : policymakers could ( and probably should ) have decided to do something else instead . |
| 12 | In all these inquiries the main conclusions were that abuse of patients where it existed was the consequence of acute shortages of staff , overcrowding and lack of facilities for patients and that general neglect pervaded in subnormality hospitals . |
| 13 | collection , sorting and presentation of evidence as a portfolio by candidate ; |
| 14 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 15 | ISQL ( the Interactive Query Language ) is used for reporting and printing of queries on the data |
| 16 | archiving and retrieval from archive of stored text |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of it is charming because the way of speaking and attitudes of people in those days now becomes an amusing factor . |
| 18 | Convinced that niche marketing was the right approach to follow , they decided to build on their experience in audit , accounting and tax for companies with turnovers of £1m to £30m ; investigative work for institutions that have invested , or are thinking of investing , in such companies ; and general litigation support . |
| 19 | It has advanced slowly , by the patient amassing and interpretation of data in many varied fields , ranging from the study of fossils ( palaeontology ) to the chemical and physical properties of rocks themselves ( petrology ) . |
| 20 | There will be greater emphasis on quality of both teaching and research as measures of the effectiveness and distinctiveness of individual universities . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State shall issue codes of practice in connection with — … ( b ) the detention , treatment , questioning and identification of persons by police officers ; … |
| 22 | Financial sectors in other European countries have been deregulating and modernizing in order to be able to compete more efficiently in the new environment . |
| 23 | There is also , it seems to me , a need to maintain the balance between these conventional awards for damages for pain , suffering and loss of amenity for different types of injury . |
| 24 | The office as a centre for collecting and processing of information for internal and external use . |
| 25 | It follows a series of scandals involving alleged physical abuse , drug taking and prostitution in homes around the country . |
| 26 | Above : Buff coloured paving slabs bordered by brick , used as edging and walling for contrast with path |
| 27 | 10 A commitment to full public participation in decision making and freedom of information in all sectors . |
| 28 | A commitment to full public participation in decision making and freedom of information in all sectors . |
| 29 | Calling for the " strengthening of ties between the party and the masses " , it made seven demands : ( i ) adherence to the mass line ( i.e. policy making and implementation in line with the interests of the people ) ; ( ii ) officials to go down among the masses ; ( iii ) the strengthening of socialist democracy and the legal system ; ( iv ) fighting official corruption ; ( v ) supervision , internal and from outside ; ( vi ) the need for exemplary behaviour from party members ; and ( vii ) raising political ( Marxist ) awareness . |
| 30 | The current annual increment of about 2000 billion tonnes of ice , due to snowfall , is lost each year by evaporation , melting and formation of icebergs at the rim . |