Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The derivation of the no-arbitrage condition relates to a forward rather than a futures contract as marking to the market is ignored . |
| 2 | At other times he looks at the sky , his jaw clenching and unclenching as if working a particularly stubborn wad of chewing gum while the Kansas City Glee Club harmonises solemn music : perhaps he wants to turn it off — but they are unstoppable . |
| 3 | The United States indicated to Vietnam on April 9 that it was prepared to normalize relations in return for Vietnamese co-operation in negotiating a settlement of the Cambodian conflict and in accounting for US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam war . |
| 4 | US government officials stated on Aug. 5 that they had uncovered evidence which indicated that a series of photographs purportedly showing that US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) were recently alive in Indo-China were fakes . |
| 5 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 6 | Progress in the hostage exchange deal had been held up , since the release in August of Edward Tracey [ see p. 38405 ] , by Israel 's refusal to make unilateral gestures without receiving information on seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action . |
| 7 | The Cambodian government announced on Dec. 5 its intention to establish an office in Phnom Penh to co-ordinate efforts at finding United States servicemen listed as missing in action . |
| 8 | For the first time Cambodian , Vietnamese and US officials met in Phnom Penh on March 6 to discuss co-operation in the search for the remains of US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam war . |
| 9 | In return , Vietnam would adopt a number of new measures to facilitate the US search for servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War . |
| 10 | In a statement issued on April 29 , US State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutwiler said that the relaxation reflected Vietnam 's strengthened commitment to helping resolve the cases of US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Vietnam . |
| 11 | US presidential envoy Gen. John Vessey announced at the end of a visit to Vietnam on Oct. 17-19 [ see p. 38768 for February visit ] that the Vietnamese government had agreed to start a nationwide search of its military archives for documents and photographs relating to US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War . |
| 12 | A US delegation led by Senator John Kerry visited Vietnam on Nov. 16-21 for detailed talks on the progress of efforts to resolve the issue of US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War . |
| 13 | Vietnamese and US specialists held a series a meetings throughout 1989 in order to " review and evaluate " efforts in the search for the remains of US personnel regarded as missing in action in the Vietnam war ( MIAs — for previous developments relating to MIA issue see p. 36699 . ) |
| 14 | The two sides discussed the Cambodian problem and the issue of US personnel regarded as missing in action ( MIA ) in the Vietnam war . |
| 15 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 16 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
| 17 | It had poured with rain ; a total cloudburst , thunder cracking and grumbling in the skies above the city . |
| 18 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 19 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 20 | From now on it will refer to products validated as working with all Sparc-compliant hardware and software , not just Sun . |
| 21 | Discussions centred on the issue of some 530 US servicemen reported as missing in action ( MIA ) in Laos during the Vietnam war . |
| 22 | The two sides discussed the issue of US servicemen reported as missing in action ( MIA ) in Vietnam and the situation in Cambodia . |
| 23 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 24 | Belatedly , Manville realized that going in cold , straight to the top , had been a serious tactical error . |
| 25 | Many times during the past evening he had returned to her , in ludicrous , colourful , brightly painted effigy , all his embarrassments clustered and clanging round him , all his mannerisms protruding , projected , enhanced : the sharp red nose , the usually broken bifocal spectacles , the striped woolly lunch-spattered waistcoats , the bald shining brown freckled Professor Branestawm brow , the pockets full of string , the green socks and brown sandals , the little pedantries , the favourite quotations , the antiquarian commentary , the hydrometer , the tufts of hair in his ears , the batty , potty , dotty , hurt , persistent grin . |
| 26 | today , in school we had a two members of a family planning association and er , we were in group and we actually had the guys in our class , they 're seventeen , maybe eighteen sitting laughing and sniggering between themselves ! |
| 27 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 28 | The key is a European Community of nations trading and cooperating through sovereign parliaments . |
| 29 | Preliminary examination of channel recordings obtained from cell attached patches ( for example , Fig 1A ) showed rapid current transitions , channels opening and closing for comparatively short periods . |
| 30 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |