Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good example of a swift corrective action being put in place with people from a variety of functions co-ordinating rapidly to help a customer solve his problem . |
| 2 | In the case of an order which will authorise the construction of works — these are normally referred to as ‘ works orders ’ — it is also necessary to approve plans and sections required under the General Orders and there are a variety of orders covering meticulously the requirements as to such plans and sections . |
| 3 | Topics will vary in difficulty in a variety of ways according especially to their familiarity , their controversial or uncontroversial character , in degrees of abstraction and complexity and much else . |
| 4 | ‘ A case of gentlemen sticking together , eh ? |
| 5 | Remember that you can always put on a cassette and get a bit of dancing going informally . |
| 6 | It 's a bit like Men Behaving Badly . |
| 7 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 8 | " She did n't really love him , " Sarah shouted aloud in the empty house , and blushed as if there were a part of Enid lurking somewhere that could overhear her . |
| 9 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 10 | A few miles outside Moscow on a ridge of hills sloping steeply down to the river Moskva below is the Church of the Decapitation of S. John the Baptist at Dyakovo ( 245 ) , which is only about a mile away across the trees and woods from the unusual Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoe ( Chapter 5 , Fig. 560 ) . |
| 11 | [ Most shops wo n't accept a cheque for goods costing more than £50 . |
| 12 | After eighty yards we came to the rails and sleepers themselves under a foot of water leading onwards into the blackness . |
| 13 | There are still critics , however , who believe that only the more profitable routes will be retained in this system ; that it places too great a reliance upon operators identifying socially important routes , and seeking and obtaining subsidies to maintain them ; and that a piecemeal system will result . |
| 14 | Beneath a photograph of Damian looking very hard and sexy they printed the words , ‘ Damian Flint — New Chairman of Swift ? ’ |
| 15 | For Hammam , running a club with gates dipping below 5,000 has been a great strain . |
| 16 | Within our own catchment area considerable progress has been made towards developing the concept of a pyramid of schools working together to create coherence and continuity in curriculum and effective transition from school to school throughout the 3–16 age range . |
| 17 | War was a recourse for Spaniards hoping eventually for radical solutions to Spain 's long term economic and political problems . " |
| 18 | Pension fund surpluses arise as a result of assets growing faster than liabilities . |
| 19 | If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Are you saying what I think you are saying , Caroline ? ’ he croaked thickly , his lidded gaze devastatingly sensual , a trace of incredulity lurking somewhere at the back of his eyes . |
| 21 | Ulster College , the Northern Ireland Polytechnic , started from scratch — with two colleges of education and a college of art joining later , in 1971 . |
| 22 | Donald Parr , chairman of William Baird , said the figures reflect the fact that Darchem is a mix of businesses performing both very well and very badly . |
| 23 | Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa . |
| 24 | Next time you see that familiar mushroom cloud rearing up ( hopefully on your T.V. screen , not across the road ) , look at the base or stalk of the mushroom , and you 'll almost certainly see a ring of cloud rolling away horizontally from it . |
| 25 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 26 | However , the UK economically active included still large proportions who were unemployed and receiving unemployment benefit , and a proportion of females working part-time , 43.9 per cent , which was exceptionally high . |
| 27 | As Annette Kuhn has argued , Hollywood as a ‘ dream-machine ’ under the studio system worked as a configuration of forces acting together , of which cinematic characteristics , as well as the institutional framework of economic structures and power relations in the industry were an important part . |
| 28 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 29 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 30 | There would then follow a quantity of directives relating most especially to handicrafts — knitting , crocheting , macramé — skills Fru Møller had studiously avoided , let alone perfected . |