Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible .
2 He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped .
3 They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition .
4 Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay .
5 He found the Regent dismounted and talking to the magistrate-father of the messenger .
6 Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique .
7 The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible .
8 Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work .
9 When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this .
10 It was only minutes before the Athletico gladiators took to the field that Chamden 's assistant manager , Frank Spanner , announced that owing to an outbreak of foot and mouth amongst the first team , they had been forced to include six second-team men in their squad at Billington Euphonia .
11 He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black .
12 As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’
13 The report added that according to the police and the Botswana Defence Force ( BDF ) , the SADF had carried out 20 direct attacks or acts of sabotage against Botswana up to February 1989 , killing 31 civilians , of whom 70 per cent were Botswanan citizens , the rest being refugees or visitors .
14 In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ .
15 11–2–1903 The Moderator intimated that owing to the state of his health he was no longer able to perform all his duties and resolved to ask the General Assembly for a grant from the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund to aid in securing the services of an unordained assistant .
16 A hideously powerful blow on one of the boards sent it splintered and whirling into the basement .
17 Rubbish , of course , but Dr Forster , the meteorologist of Bruges , declared that according to the journal kept by his grandfather , father and self , from 1767 to the 1880s , whenever the new Moon had fallen on Saturday the following 20 days were wet and windy , in 19 cases out of 20 .
18 A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ .
19 The results showed that knowing about the theme of the passage only at recall did not improve performance .
20 ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) .
21 ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window .
22 Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist .
23 While he condemned as pride the solitary life-style which arises from self-reliance rather than faith in God ( 14.87 ) he countered his opponents with another Scriptural quotation from Osee ( Hosea ) 2:14 interpreted as referring to the relationship between God and the soul : " I will lead her into solitude , and I will speak to her heart " ( 13.83 ) .
24 Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson , who does not really count : she inherited her $550m fortune from her husband , chairman of America 's Johnson and Johnson company , whom she met while working as a maid in his house .
25 The type of reactor used at Chernobyl had a design flaw , which meant that dropping in the control rods to avert a surge in power briefly exacerbated the surge .
26 Erm to my self respect and I just I was determined that it was n't going to happen to my daughter , so in consequence I saw that working on the side to get to get the uniform so that she could go to school in a new uniform same as all the other kids as a necessity .
27 A young woman once interviewed on the radio was asked whether she felt that working as a cleaner was beneath her .
28 After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing .
29 To build up a more stable relationship , rather than simply seeing how much time the work took and charging by the hour , we have all had to come to terms with pricing in a market , giving a clear idea what the budget will be and taking much more care to explain what we 're charging for .
30 The youngster fell while playing on a haystack at his grandmother 's farm .
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