Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it means , too , transforming these traditions , by imbuing them with the woman-centered values of nurturance and intimacy , as necessary and legitimate goals of political life . |
| 2 | The department was now hoping to integrate relevant library skills worksheets fully into the lower-school course structure by including them within the science-course booklets , and supplementing them with " home-grown " activities where necessary . |
| 3 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 4 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 5 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 6 | ‘ Follies are in their way heroic , ’ William Feaver has commented on these grand narratives , aligning them with the epic paintings by the vainglorious diarist , Benjamin Robert Haydon . |
| 7 | We want to lay emphasis on the concept of community education : it represents a whole attitude to education which makes science , maths and all the other subjects students learn , meaningful by relating them to the real experiences of life outside school . |
| 8 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 9 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 10 | When the fish are placed in the breeding tank courtship will normally start within minutes , the male displaying to the female and driving her into the floating mops . |
| 11 | Although the case for commitment accounting improving budgetary control is a good one , there is a real problem involved in adopting it in the financial accounts . |
| 12 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 13 | Even stilled , the great pistons were ample evidence of the power it could unleash , driving it like the mighty wheels of a train . |
| 14 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 15 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 16 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 17 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 18 | ( viii ) Remove the coverslips from their chambers and transfer them into PBS containing 0.1 % Tween-20 ( PBS — Tween ) before incubating them with the specific antibodies or other reagents . |
| 19 | Pioneered by National Children 's Home and co-funded in partnership with Cambridgeshire council , the scheme homes to deter children as young as five from crime by alerting them to the long-term consequences to their victims and the effect of crime on their own future . |
| 20 | Wednesday there was a letter , an imprecation almost , from an investment company warning me of the dire consequences of not having a pension . |
| 21 | Or , you can use a stopwatch in which case you can increase the accuracy by doing the timings on slo-mo and correcting them to the normal-speed equivalents . |
| 22 | If you have a problem with a friend , partner , child , colleague or neighbour , try meeting them on the inner planes before discussing the issue with them in person : |
| 23 | When Laura complained at breaktime that Peter had done the same again , pushing her towards the broken tiles which had recently been blown off the junior hall roof , Janice felt that Peter needed to be shown that what he had done was dangerous and unacceptable . |
| 24 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 25 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 26 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 27 | ‘ Stupid , crazy female , ’ was all he said as he set about bandaging it with the meagre contents of the first-aid box . |
| 28 | Tissues respond to the presence of tubercle bacilli by forming a fibrous wall round the organisms and encasing them in the small nodules called tubercles . |
| 29 | The only fight Laker would have with the big airlines thereafter was in the American courts , suing them under the anti-trust laws for driving him out of business . |
| 30 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |