Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 2 | Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict . |
| 3 | It has been stated that the principle of primogenital succession was increasingly observed in the eleventh century ; but there was a substantial difference between accepting the customary right of the eldest son to succeed , if he were of age and competent , and accepting it as an inviolable rule , as was proved by the usurpation of Robert the Frisian , and perhaps also by the succession of Raymond IV of Toulouse ( though here the facts are rather uncertain ) . |
| 4 | She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket . |
| 5 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 6 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 7 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 8 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 9 | Ingarden is keen to emphasize that the delight evoked by such positive culminations is not the essential component of aesthetic experience but a by-product of the activity of discovery , of experiencing an achieved harmony and valuing it in an emotional , contemplative way . |
| 10 | In the ‘ we-reap-as-we-sow ’ category this week there are reports by Computer Reseller News that WordPerfect is now thinking about dusting off its long-standing complaints against Microsoft Corp and turning them into an anti-trust action if the US Federal Trade Commission does n't hop to and litigate . |
| 11 | He 'd stood up as he spoke , and came to loom disturbingly large over her before spinning one of the chairs at the table and straddling it , resting his forearms on the back and fixing her with an unfathomable gaze . |
| 12 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 13 | Why note use a battery-backed SRAM ( static random access memory ) in place of the EEPROM , plugging it directly onto the computer bus and treating it as an other RAM in the system ? |
| 14 | These difficulties could be overcome by using finely ground copper carbonate rather than metal , and mixing it with an organic glue . |
| 15 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 16 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 17 | So Dymo effectively uses FDC as a data collection device , collecting the data locally , validating it , and putting it in an electronic format for automatic transfer to the head office for consolidation . |
| 18 | She felt the shudder within him , felt a pride and an elation that she had caused it , then could think of nothing other than the exquisite sensations shooting through her body , radiating to every part of it and suffusing her with an unstoppable arousal . |
| 19 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 20 | After studying large numbers of systems of kinship terms and placing them in an evolutionary sequence , partly in terms of their characteristics , partly in terms of the technological level reached by the societies from which they originated , Morgan felt confident that he had discovered a governing tendency in the history of human marriage : as social evolution progressed , the number of legitimate sexual partners a man or a woman could have diminished progressively , finally producing monogamy — the permanent union of one man and one woman . |
| 21 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 22 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 23 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |