Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passenger demand forecasting for new rail services |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 4 | These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation . |
| 5 | So often in conditions races we see just a handful of runners competing for good prizemoney , a situation which has prompted a reduction in Pattern races from 139 to 101 in the 1990-91 season . |
| 6 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 7 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 8 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 9 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 10 | Agency workers are also paid by the hour , but the larger agencies , competing for scarce labour , have increasingly started to offer fringe benefits such as sickness and holiday pay [ see Chapter 5 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 12 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 13 | The views of his Ministerial colleagues , not least the Prime Minister , will be of particular relevance whenever a subject overruns departmental boundaries and the Home Office is competing for Parliamentary time . |
| 14 | After the laying of a few ‘ experimental ’ courses with due consideration for commercial shipping , wind direction and a fleet of local Finn sailors competing for Olympic squad selection , racing , finally , got under way . |
| 15 | ‘ If we abandon nuclear power , we abandon them to competing for declining energy sources at a price they will clearly not be able to afford . ’ |
| 16 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 17 | There is no shortage of males in the flocks during pair formation , so hens are probably competing for high quality males . |
| 18 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 19 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 20 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 21 | Nelson was going to have to fumble through on his own — just as she was fumbling through each day , holding her breath hoping to see him , talk to Matthew … trying to understand this hunger inside her . |
| 22 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 23 | They completed nearly 16,000 newly-built dwellings in the year to September 1991 , and together with acquisition and renovation of houses for letting , building for shared ownership sale , and other activities , the total output of housing associations was almost 22,000 units in 1990-91 , compared with only 16,000 in 1979 . |
| 24 | I spent an exhilarating day cruising the River Ord , speeding through spectacular scenery in a high-powered boat . |
| 25 | This paper has shown the feasibility of using echo planar magnetic resonance imaging for prolonged imaging of upper gastrointestinal motility . |
| 26 | We wish to draw attention to this rarely diagnosed but bery serious complication to systemic steroid treatment of ulcerative colitis and the importance of magnetic resonance imaging for early recognition . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was in the hope of siphoning off this water that she put the beautiful white Ted-decorated house on the market as soon as it was finished . |
| 28 | I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file . |
| 29 | Hebbert was leafing through Hard Rock to re-live Great/Bow combination and just glancing at the Vember chapter , which was the nearest the book got to Curving Crack . |
| 30 | Later the same morning Luke asked Merrill to list the dates of some previous meetings with a particular client , and Merrill , leafing through last year 's desk diary , came upon Elise 's name and address . |