Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with Mitroff 's earlier paper , there is much more emphasis here on linking stakeholder analysis with research into cognitive schemas , and a greater recognition that there may be problems both in identifying the schemas , often held unconsciously , and in bringing them together to inform the corporate debate about strategy . |
| 2 | He would lie , exhausted among the twisted sheets , his head buried under the pillow , urging her silently to switch the damn thing off . |
| 3 | He is usually depicted with a bunch of keys — hence our word ‘ janitor ’ — and extremists of his cult called him Janus Quadrifrons ( Four Heads ) believing he also controlled the four seasons . |
| 4 | The growing mistrust with which the nuclear industry was surrounding itself now had a clear target . |
| 5 | he could n't manage to think and I 've never learnt how to manage to , that erm , the engine , so we got rid of the boat and then our son he 's got a big boat , he 's got a real speedboat , a real big one and Julian he 's got a smaller speedboat , so both of the boys go there , when we go camping we always have a good time because it 's all a family affair like , you know , always get together and erm go on , on a boat , fishing , having fresh mackerels come back and clean them up and fry them straight fresh from the sea , never tasted as fresh , fresh as , fresher fish than , than |
| 6 | ‘ I 'ad ter spin the geezer a tale that I was usin' it ter move a poor family out o' the buildin 's where I live . ’ |
| 7 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 8 | ABOVE The method of dating using tree-rings ( dendrochronology ) involves taking samples from timbers of different ages , and linking them together to provide an overall dating sequence . |
| 9 | Ludens , who had never shaved anybody but himself before , soon discovered that shaving somebody else required a different technique . |
| 10 | When listening to records , or to a band at a gig , even if you are checking out what the bass player is doing you still hear the whole thing . |
| 11 | In so doing he often exposes the different colour of the priming ground underneath . |
| 12 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 13 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 14 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 15 | In many cases , those who had come had spent large sums preparing themselves adequately to join the English ranks , such was their keenness to serve under a commander of high reputation . |
| 16 | Again some policyholders have been underinsuring themselves , leaving everyone else to carry an unfair burden . |
| 17 | On impulse I picked up the phone and rang her , hoping I still had the right number . |
| 18 | Eventually , the meal was concluded and Mandru stood up , prompting everyone else to do the same . |
| 19 | Renaming it merely renames the original version . |