Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a personal level , Stevenson has an interest in buying National Hunt foals and yearlings and selling them on as three or four-year-olds ; some are kept for racing . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | Subsequent research will then be devoted to determining its range of applicability and subjecting it to still further tests . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The rational agent can then calculate the expected utility of each action by assigning a ‘ utility ’ ( a quotient of happiness , so to speak ) to each consequence and discounting it for how likely or unlikely it is to be the actual consequence . |
| 6 | The Publications Officer is handling an increasing amount of such material , and preparing it to increasingly high technical specifications . |
| 7 | Your third option is to make up what you want by adding small decorative mouldings to plain stock , gluing and pinning them on as appropriate to create the cross-section you want . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |