Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 2 | And erm , it s it seems to be an entirely er rational position for any public politician , for instance , Mrs Thatcher before the seventy-nine election , denying that she had any plans to double V A T , or Mr Major denying some of the plans for raising taxes that we 've come up with , or indeed denying plans to privatise the forestry commission . |
| 3 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 4 | Wires announcing that he had some leave would be sent to the delightful telegraphic address of B.P. which was ‘ Bonzo ’ . |
| 5 | Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory |
| 6 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 7 | It 's a condition of booking that you have medical insurance valid for our watersports activities , including a 24 hour call service for repatriation to UK if necessary ; local hospital care is primitive . |
| 8 | Revealing that they had cystic fibrosis at job interviews reduced likelihood of being employed for those with mild to moderate disease . |
| 9 | Duncan was n't too concerned because he soon realized that there was little difference in the policeman 's driving whether he used one hand or two . |
| 10 | We were still laughing when we took more food out to the others . |
| 11 | They made a good pair , both dark-haired , Simone animated and bubbly , laughing as he related amusing anecdotes about his travels . |
| 12 | Modern school buildings make as much use as possible of natural light , incorporating as they do large windows . |
| 13 | Yet the reality has been so , so different , with the latest low occurring when he damaged medial knee ligaments while playing in a reserve match last Thursday . |
| 14 | English historians have sometimes lamented the retention of continental possessions by the English crown in the later Middle Ages , maintaining that they distracted English kings from their proper purpose : the reduction of the British Isles to obedience and the formation of an island nation state . |
| 15 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |
| 16 | ( I admit I am suggesting that we replace one kind of dualism with another ! ) |
| 17 | I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously . |
| 18 | I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining . |
| 19 | Since the British Ministry of Agriculture learned of the investigation last March , it has written to 262 US pesticide companies demanding that they reveal any work conducted by Craven . |
| 20 | Not all cationic detergents , even those termed quaternary ammonium compounds , are capable of disinfecting although they have commercial uses as fabric softeners and conditioners . |
| 21 | William of Jumièges , elaborated by William of Poitiers , reports that Edward set sail with forty ships , crossed to Southampton , defeated a large English force , and returned to Normandy after realising that he needed more men to obtain the kingdom . |
| 22 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 23 | Now whenever I speak , this provides grounds for believing that I have vocal chords ; but it does not express that fact . |
| 24 | She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " . |
| 25 | It is a modest mark of our gratitude to those with gifts and skills of writing that we make this increase to the Public Lending Right … ’ |
| 26 | The committee meet the sub the committee has not met yet , because there has n't been any action , and we wo n't be meeting until we get some movement from any of those three agencies who 'll be replying to us . |
| 27 | Explosives experts were planning to set off mines to destroy the underground conduits which keep the lava from cooling and solidifying before it reaches inhabited areas farther down the mountain . |
| 28 | American Ghosts and Old World Wonders [ Chatto ] is a collection of pieces she was writing when she died last year , but , with the exception of the opening story , I doubt this volume will secure her many new converts . ’ |
| 29 | And the swarm of people flowed down the path , stumbling on stones where a burn ran in winter or after thunderstorms , between the silvery wands of rowans with their clusters of blood-drops and the quivering tapestry of the alders , down into the Tay which ran from the west like molten iron , too flashing bright to look at , and over the Tay , wet to the waist ; the girls and boys who had not gone home were prancing and shrieking when they fell full length . |
| 30 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |