Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 2 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 3 | START has had outstanding experimental success this year , recording electron temperatures up to 5 million degrees C with excellent energy containment ; it is important for the future development of fusion power that , after 13,000 discharges , no major instabilities have been observed for this low aspect ratio tokamak . |
| 4 | The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi . |
| 5 | The idea of Wendy 's tailoring enterprise in making a violently checked blanket-coat puts one in mind of escape-committees in German P.O.W. camps making enemy uniforms out of British battle-dress or bedding . |
| 6 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |