Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [vb -s] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 2 | Both methods have been found reliable , but the former entails the additional work of defining what constitutes an acceptable answer for each item . |
| 3 | The maxim that life should not be extended at the cost of worsening it has an obvious appeal : it is also a gross over-simplification . |
| 4 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 5 | Finally , the process of reading itself involves a basic mapping between text world and real world that can be characterised as isomorphic as well . |
| 6 | Alyakkh is a daughter of Jones 's Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Al Bahathri and , while she may never aspire to her dam 's position in turf history , she should be capable of winning what appears a modest contest . |
| 7 | It is this style of thinking which plays a large part in producing symptoms of stress . |
| 8 | Just as selection via the 11-plus , was the decisive influence , the gaining of school-leaving qualifications is now crucial in deciding who gains the best jobs . |
| 9 | In determining what constitutes a reasonable prospect it is to be assumed that the prospect given by the facts and other matters known to the creditor at the time he entered into the transaction resulting in the debt was a reasonable prospect ( s 271(4) ) . |
| 10 | It is , indeed , the dedication to eating which provides the lasting memory of this night , rather than the lacklustre game . |
| 11 | They are prone to silting which slows the current and causes shallows ; water levels can vary so that both in flood and drought rivers can become impassable . |
| 12 | Try to avoid being overcome by the sense of relief at finishing which produces a vague summary or a conclusion of the " thus it can be seen … variety . |