Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weeks of legal bickering by Pakistan lawyers have left the International Cricket Council fuming about their inability to take firm action over the damaging saga . |
| 2 | The research aims to examine the effects of attrition and conditioning on the panel , to exploit the analytic advantages of attrition and conditioning on the panel relating to its ability to model dynamic models of human behaviour and attitudes and to investigate the practical aspects of maintaining a panel . |
| 3 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 4 | One of the generals , Tienie Groenewald , made a splash by boasting of his ability to mobilise 500,000 whites willing to fight for secession if peaceful resistance to black rule failed . |
| 5 | Working from these , and with microorganisms he is culturing in his laboratory to metabolise related compounds from the chlorodioxin group , Chakrabarty is seeking a single culture that can degrade 2,4,5-T to the point where heavily contaminated soil can be returned in a matter of days to healthy soil that can support plant life . |
| 6 | ‘ He said he was listening to our track Move Any Mountain on his Walkman while the city was being shelled . |
| 7 | Viliam Ciklamini and Jaroslav Prochazka , Federal Deputy Interior Ministers , were dismissed on April 20 after being accused by Richard Sacher , the Federal Interior Minister , of acting without his knowledge to have parliamentary deputies screened for connections with the former Statni Bezpecnost ( StB — State Security , or secret police ) . |
| 8 | Living by his trade meant more than surviving . |
| 9 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 10 | He carried her effortlessly , and lying against his heart brought such vivid happiness that the journey down the stairs and across the courtyard was over much too soon . |
| 11 | Fighting for its life causes chemical changes in the flesh . |
| 12 | While Oxford United recover from their five-one hammering in the coca cola cup at Tranmere last night , Swindon Town and Hereford United are preparing for their cup matches this evening . |
| 13 | Melanie and the dog , who had been quietly sitting beneath her chair observing all this , went to join them . |
| 14 | But as Office Talk snapped Take That arriving in their mean looking black Mercedes , Drury House was rocked by the screams of fans lining the pavement for a glimpse of Robbie , Mark , and the rest of the boys . |
| 15 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 16 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 17 | So in a sense , what we 're doing by funding and delivering a very high capital programme out of revenue , rather than borrowing , is we 're detracting from our ability to deliver important services . |
| 18 | But she felt she could n't stay and drink tea and then just go off , it would n't be right to be slaking her thirst and sitting here chatting with her mother lying ill wondering what had happened . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , sittin' in your room writin' all day . |
| 20 | At the time that many of the people participating in our research became disabled , life expectancy for people with various impairments was often very low . |
| 21 | A sizable saithe dangling from its beak indicates another meal for its young up on the hill loch beyond the village . |
| 22 | At the back of our minds however , was a feeling that partnership could provide the school with an opportunity for working within our community to develop inter-industry contact which could be beneficial for all concerned . |