Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Installation has also been improved with the provision of a wider range of up-to-date device drivers — but it is still worth checking that your particular video , printer or digitiser is supported . |
| 2 | Instead of accepting that their normal circuit is not possible and organising an alternative , they may try to make their formal pattern and so run themselves into an even more difficult situation . |
| 3 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 4 | Instead of visualising as your ultimate goal an examination many months ahead , break the subject into many parts . |
| 5 | But those on the list who actually applied , as opposed to expressing vague interest , had no way of knowing whether their completed application forms had been weeded out or simply thrown on to the paper mountain along with everyone else . |
| 6 | Tom McClenaghan , the council 's director of administration , reveals in a report that owners will be charged an initial £12 for the security of knowing that their furry friends can no longer go as they please . |
| 7 | Once you can do this without the aid of the locator , you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your own skills alone will enable you to make use of this last-ditch method of rescue . |
| 8 | You must learn to become aware of your pattern of breathing when you first start to become anxious . |
| 9 | However , as you know , most of my savings had vanished while I was unemployed and when I was offered a very nice flat near the school , the financial advantages of making that my single home base seemed overwhelming . |
| 10 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The freedom and way of life we have been accustomed to enjoy for so long will vanish ’ , Kenneth Oxford , Chief Constable of Merseyside , prophesied in 1977 ; ‘ what we are experiencing is not a passing phenomenon but a continuing process of change in our way of life … our customary ways of behaving and our traditional values are being radically modified . ’ |
| 12 | She quailed at his heartless words , afraid of discovering that her adored father had feet of clay but determined to face the truth . |
| 13 | In 1517 David Cecil took a 21-year lease of land in Essendine at a rent of £18. 3s. 3d. ; not being the freeholder he was not mentioned in the muster , and there is no means of telling whether his global assessment of £46 at Tinwell embodied the profit of this farm which he very possibly sublet . |
| 14 | It is clear that Forth Valley Enterprise is well on schedule towards ensuring that its end-of-year target is achieved . |
| 15 | This segregation within an integrated unit is justified as protecting dementia sufferers from the intolerance of lucid fellow-residents and of ensuring that their special needs are met . |
| 16 | The culture change we seek to secure is one of ensuring that our new arrangements are needs led rather than service driven . |
| 17 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
| 18 | Physical abuse must be recognised as a problem worth solving before its true extent can be known . |
| 19 | John-Augustus tried to josh himself into accepting that his own bout was no more than that . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 21 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 22 | I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others . |
| 23 | In explaining that my hon. Friend the Minister of State is not present to answer questions because he is doing duty in the Province , I give the right hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance of the commitment of the intelligence services and of their relevance in Northern Ireland today . |
| 24 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 25 | Mrs Goode studied sociology and education subjects and hopes her degree will help her to obtain work in teaching when her youngest child , four-year-old James , starts school . |
| 26 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 27 | They pay in six per cent of their salary , why should they be debarred from saying that they own part of those funds . |
| 28 | He showed imagination in appointing as his personal assistant ( Sir ) John Wheeler-Bennett [ q.v. ] , who was to become one of Britain 's most distinguished experts on German politics . |
| 29 | Porterfield , who was sacked by Aberdeen in 1988 after two years in charge , went to work yesterday morning unaware of the behind-the-scenes activity and took a full training session before learning that his 20-month reign was over . |
| 30 | One wife , who has now returned part-time to her own career while she cares for their two small children , accepted before marrying that her high-powered executive husband would not give any help in the house . |