Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an extraordinary plenum of the Tadjik CP central committee on Feb. 16 Makhkamov 's resignation was refused and Vaadad was criticized for contributing to the destabilization of the situation in Tadjikistan ; indeed a special commission was set up to investigate allegations that a group of Tadjik communists allied to Vaadad had plotted at the height of the Dushanbe unrest to seize power from Khayeyev 's government and install as Prime Minister Buri Karimov , currently a Deputy Prime Minister but also the Vaadad chairman . |
| 2 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 4 | About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown . |
| 5 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | APS can decide the most appropriate and most efficient method of payment , and provide immediate electronic advice of funds received for crediting to an account . |
| 7 | Is power disguised as stemming from the organisation rather than management at Burger King ? |
| 8 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 9 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 10 | Sacked for swearing on the helpline |
| 11 | I remember years ago Edwin preaching about standing in the gap — that gap between heaven and earth , bringing the two together . |
| 12 | On the LME inter-office trades are registered for clearing as a house cross . |
| 13 | It is as though the Prime Minister is trying to paint a canvas in the style of Georges Seurat , if I may be forgiven for referring to a continental artist . |
| 14 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 15 | As a respondent in my study commented about economising on the heating : ‘ I turn it off when I 'm in on my own and put a blanket on myself . |
| 16 | Peggy Ryan asked between saying to an aircraftman , ‘ That 's two teas , two wads and a Rizla . |
| 17 | Any proceedings in which the claim is £1,000 or less are automatically referred for hearing by the district judge as arbitrator ( N 18 ) upon the filing of a defence . |
| 18 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 19 | Never sit about waiting for the result of one interview . |
| 20 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 21 | The case has now been listed for hearing before the Commissioners . |
| 22 | The case was listed for rehearing before a committee of seven members not all of whom sat on the original committee . |
| 23 | In Canada , LASMO 's shares are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange under the trading symbol LSO . |
| 24 | Nelson , dismissed for complaining about a tackle by Derek Mountfield , said : ‘ I 've played more than 550 games and this is the first time in my career I 've been sent off . |
| 25 | She has also been optimised for racing with a Kevlar sail wardrobe . |
| 26 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 27 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 28 | TRANSPORT helpline clerk Bill Goulding was sacked after swearing at a caller and hurling his phone headset out of a window , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 29 | Public outcry followed the revelation that Ben Silcock , who was mauled after climbing into the lions ' compound at London Zoo , was severely mentally ill and was not getting adequate treatment . |
| 30 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |