Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These aims will be achieved by video-recording children at play with their mothers , starting when the children are six months old and following the same children through until twenty-one months of age . |
| 2 | ( Oh , yes , I had learnt to play this whilst spending a few months in a rotting gaol due to one of the many misunderstandings which plagued my life . ) |
| 3 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 4 | Jack Delano was never an invisible photographer — his subjects were always aware that they were being photographed — in fact he had acquired so many friends during the early stages of the project in the 1940s that approaching the same people in the 1980s was a mere formality . |
| 5 | Her measures are simpler [ than Clare 's ] and she appears not to think of anything more audacious than writing a few forms skilfully and with point . |
| 6 | They say giving someone a patch is far cheaper than treating the same person for heart disease or lung cancer . |
| 7 | Preparing for this Assembly involves much more than booking a few halls and sending out invitations . |
| 8 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think other things are more important than sharing the same profession . |
| 10 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 11 | Fortunately , all such waves can be expressed as the sum of a constant term and an infinite set of harmonic sinewaves , the sinewave of lowest frequency in the harmonic set being known as the fundamental and having the same period as the original nonsinusoidal wave . |
| 12 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
| 13 | One side of the sheet lists the children of Charles the Cheesemonger , starting with the birth of William Charles in 1772 and appending a few dates of death for good measure . |