Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the reports , the Khmer Rouge has begun fencing off animal sanctuaries in areas where wildlife is most threatened . |
| 2 | ‘ The difference between the fixed rate and their standard variable rate is often quite small after allowing for exit penalties from their existing loan and the start up costs of the new . ’ |
| 3 | On Feb. 27 an " open skies " agreement , signed in May 1991 between Hungary and Romania and allowing for surveillance flights in each country 's airspace , came into force . |
| 4 | The raid however took only ten minutes and the thieves escaped undetected after sawing through iron bars on a basement window to enter , removing the eight works and fleeing in time to avoid the police cordon flung round the city . |
| 5 | Lily bulbs benefit from improved drainage and need cool roots , so using as spot plantings amongst other perennial plants and shrubs is ideal . |
| 6 | After dutifully inspecting the destruction at the El Azziziya barracks , where the Libyan leader lived , at the port of Sidi Balal and at Tripoli airport , as well as the damage done to the French Embassy and to civilian homes adjoining the target areas , Coleman left the media pack clamouring for phone lines at the El Khebir hotel or doing ‘ stand-ups ’ on the roof and went off on his own . |
| 7 | This chapter has not been able to cover them all — the impetus GPFHs have had in driving through quality improvements for example ( Glennerster et al. |
| 8 | Conservative and non-conservative actions are identified by the form of the matrices appearing as coefficient arrays in the equations of motion . |
| 9 | Elizabeth had been amazed to see workmen slicing through stone blocks with hand-axes , just as easily as cutting butter . |
| 10 | The bill has already been modified by the Senate following amendments presented by various political groups who were pressing for tax reductions for buildings of artistic or historic interest which only generate a small income but which are expensive to maintain . |
| 11 | They make up twenty three per cent of those currently applying for council homes in the Forest . |
| 12 | She hurried on , exhilarated , the delights of her early morning ride and the joy of his return , coursing like twin currents in her blood . |
| 13 | A FAVOURITE fox hunt of the Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family has been banned from National Trust land after a joint master was found guilty of two offences of interfering with badger setts before a hunt meeting . |
| 14 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 15 | The problem which was supposed to bring liberal theory crashing to the ground was that we do not wish to justify interfering with adult liberties on these grounds . |
| 16 | Inevitably more aircraft appeared , dropping a hail of bombs and then strafing with machine guns for good measure , but , amazingly , no damage was done . |
| 17 | Altogether a ‘ standing room only ’ happening with Disco experts from six to 16 strutting their stuff . |
| 18 | A crystal of common salt is a packed , orderly array of sodium ions alternating with chloride ions at right angles to one another . |
| 19 | These findings are further in keeping with cultivation studies of mononuclear cells from inflamed ulcerative colitis mucosa which showed preferential spontaneous secretion IgG1 compared with control cells . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ? |
| 21 | He knew about light-hearted people walking under line trees on pale , summer evenings and falling in love for a while , not very seriously . |
| 22 | The first was handwritten , with certain nouns and verbs leaping into capital letters in the eighteenth-century manner . |
| 23 | • It 's all sulking under iron skies in Switzerland for the LEMONHEADS — unusual for such a casual , flexible group , thinks JOHN MULVEY , until he hears King Slacker EVAN DANDO talking about drugs , weird nightmares , good bites and loving Tipper Gore . |
| 24 | The references in their works were guarded but controversy was stimulated from 1823 by the distribution by Francis Place of handbills explaining in detail methods of contraception — sponge , sheath , withdrawal . |
| 25 | Pigs , grain , potatoes and some breeding sheep were also sold through the system , which involves potential buyers bidding from computer terminals in their own offices for livestock , grain , etc. which have been described in detail to them . |
| 26 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 next month , was found dying from head injuries in her bed on Monday . |
| 27 | As he talks a train of small boys returning from school tramps behind us to the beat of the folk-pop tape . |
| 28 | Instead of appearing alongside party spokesmen at a packed lunchtime meeting of scientists , the Science Minister , Alan Howarth , sent a fax from his Stratford-upon-Avon constituency . |
| 29 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 30 | This kind of short-term priming effect ( occurring over interpresentation periods of a second or so ) is not the only form of priming , however . |