Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 2 | Go for angular-shaped chairs , softening them with brightly coloured cushions . |
| 3 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 4 | These included the abolition of absolute covenants by translating them into fully qualified covenants ; the elimination of qualified covenants such that they would take effect as a fully qualified covenant ; and the placing of the burden of proof for proving " reasonableness " where consent has been withheld , together with a restriction upon landlords seeking to delay their decisions regarding consent . |
| 5 | He was hardly aware of moving , but when he pushed the postern closed behind him she stepped back into the gateway , eyeing him with very human caution . |
| 6 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 7 | His eyes searching hers from very close quarters , he chuckled when she hastily lowered her lashes . |
| 8 | They were contributed by Jessica Mann , writing in the Sunday Telegraph about Monica Dickens ' One of the Family ( Viking ) : ‘ Monica Dickens had a knack of entering into the feelings of her characters and describing them with apparently artless sincerity , but she was never a cosy writer , being both too realistic and too experienced , having done time herself as a servant , factory girl and a Samaritan … |
| 9 | Describing them in more specific terms is a social historian 's nightmare . |
| 10 | Alcoves and corners can all be put to good use by turning them into highly attractive display features . |
| 11 | It also aimed to develop strategies which would help children reconsider and reshape their ideas in the light of new evidence , moving them towards more scientific explanations . |
| 12 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 13 | Iran on April 6 denounced , in a letter to the Security Council , Iraq 's toleration of the operation of " terrorist mercenaries " , and demanded that Iraq should stop supporting them from inside Iraqi territory . |
| 14 | This can insulate them from considering it in more political terms . |
| 15 | I have taken it a stage further with the inclusion of many groups usually seen as problematic , linking them with more familiar body plans . |
| 16 | Dr Richard Stephenson , of Durham University , and Leslie Morrison , of the Royal Greenwich Observatory , made the discovery by studying data from the pre-telescope era and combining it with more recent facts . |
| 17 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |
| 18 | The logical result of this attitude was , of course , the takeover of the most prominent media , which would involve placing them under more direct control , a corollary of this action was the suppression or limitation of any privately owned media that might either be critical of TANU and the Tanzanian Government or campaign for alternatives . |
| 19 | There will always be subjects which can only be handled by referring them to apparently independent adjudicators outside government . |
| 20 | ‘ If we 're lucky , ’ Damian drawled , leaning against the lift wall and watching her from below hooded lids , ‘ we might sort out Forster in one day . |
| 21 | Then Gedanken remembered her uncle telling her about really strong gravity ; it could be faked by really hard acceleration . |
| 22 | Hypnotists now often suggest that the subject focuses his attention by staring fixedly at a drawing pin on the wall , while telling him in rather monotonous tones that he is becoming more relaxed and sleepy . |
| 23 | The Merger Regulation removes the Commission 's power to enforce Articles 85 and 86 ( leaving it with only residual powers to apply those articles ) in respect of all ‘ concentrations ’ whether or not they fall within the turnover thresholds . |
| 24 | What they are doing is boosting their 1992 earnings at the expense of their income in 1993 when the Clinton government will be in power and hitting them with hugely increased tax bills . |
| 25 | That he had begun to make them when he had first discovered that letter on Eleanor 's word-processor , and was following them with absolutely dogged determination . |
| 26 | When the new system is introduced the caretaking staff will not be amongst those identified as operators and it is intended that these revised hours will assist caretaking staff by freeing them for more appropriate duties . |