Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 2 | Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale . |
| 3 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |
| 4 | Focusing more particularly on forgiveness , Jesus defended the woman who had poured myrrh over his feet by pointing to the same reason : ‘ Her great love proves that her many sins have been forgiven ; where little has been forgiven , little love is shown . ’ |
| 5 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 6 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 7 | I think we have got to sort out these problems of restructuring at the same time as those of market and state regulation . |
| 8 | In his speech Kozyrev had accused Western powers of interfering in the former Soviet Union , claimed the right to use military action in the area , and threatened to come to the aid of Serbia . |
| 9 | It means nothing in terms of dealing with the many problems before education today . |
| 10 | In prose writing , the discrepancy between identity of meaning and identity of sense is well exemplified in the device of so-called elegant variation : we have already noted , for instance p107 ) , Henry James 's use of non-synonymous expressions : " the poor young man " , " this personage " , etc , as ways of referring to the same person . |
| 11 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 12 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 13 | Do n't try to follow both sets of shaping at the same time because it wo n't work and you will find yourself becoming totally confused . |
| 14 | The theory that amplexus is a form of ‘ mate guarding ’ by males , preventing others from mating with the same female , is confirmed by comparing the duration of amplexus in explosive breeding European common frog , only one out Among explosive breeders , competition between males for females is intense and amplexus may last for several days or even for the entire breeding period . |
| 15 | Practical PC recently received a heart-rending letter from a reader and while it was already too late to help in her particular case it is worth going over her story to prevent others from falling into the same trap . |
| 16 | And that 's my reason for going public now , to advise , WARN OFF , discourage other runners from falling into the same trap as me . |
| 17 | Heat the oil and gently fry the spring onions without browning for a few minutes . |
| 18 | No longer you have to grovel through the woods each spring in hopes of stumbling across a few of these delectable fungi . |