Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 2 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 3 | Three options for Bart 's — keeping it as a smaller specialist hospital ; closing Smithfield site with services moved ; or combined management with the Royal London and London Chest Hospitals . |
| 4 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 5 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 6 | to show his students the ways by which great art creates its effects , leading them to a finer appreciation and fuller response , and to help them appreciate more fully the authors ' insights , so often deeper than our own [ sic ] , contribute towards our understanding of ourselves , our community , and life itself . |
| 7 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 8 | Many modernisation theorists argued that industrialisation would open up opportunities for women , providing them with a greater variety of possible roles and increasing chances of social mobility and a less subservient existence . |
| 9 | It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity . |
| 10 | I moved the reliquary from its altar , after it had been swathed well for safety in moving it to a higher place . |
| 11 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |
| 12 | Leonora dreamed of the fierce rapture they 'd shared on the island and began to long for Penry to want her violently , to stop treating her like a younger sister , and sometimes after he 'd gone she 'd stare in the mirror in discontent , wishing she were tall , or voluptuous , or blonde . |
| 13 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 14 | With ‘ soft knee ’ the compression ratio increases progressively , so that signals exceeding the threshold by a small amount are compressed less than those exceeding it by a larger margin . |
| 15 | Of course , if you have a young family and feel water might be a hazard , the feature could become a raised sandpit or planter , which naturally gives you the opportunity of converting it at a later stage . |
| 16 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 17 | So I think th th that the one thing which is good I think , is a possibility of re-opening it up , and possibly using it to a fuller extent , which might actually give it er , er , new lease of life . |
| 18 | Silverfish are an awesome experience , and purely on that basis EMF should be applauded for introducing them to a wider audience . |
| 19 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 20 | Some of it you know just to ignore , but if it is from someone who knows what he is on about , then it can be helpful in making you into a better player . |
| 21 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 22 | Do not hesitate to throw a card away after rewriting it in a better form . |
| 23 | We have decided to amplify the chords by reduplicating them in the higher octave in order to obtain greater clearness and bite . |
| 24 | She blushed because of his quizzical look which said a great deal and turned everything topsy turvy and her knees to water , leaving her in a worse confusion . |