Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against eight opponents — two of them , Akiko and Carson Bay , are his pacemakers — Arazi should have little trouble in confirming his booking to Louisville if reproducing the brilliance that saw him top the International Classification and America 's Experimental Handicap . |
| 2 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 3 | Althusser 's historical interest derives from the fact that he represents the only orthodox Marxist theorist who has tried to get out of Hegel while remaining a Marxist — though for many Marxists he did sacrifice Marxism in the process , which only suggests how closely Marxism and Hegelianism are intertwined . |
| 4 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 5 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 6 | Michael Heseltine , the former British Defence Secretary , warned the Royal Institute of International Affairs on 23 November that the Soviet Union had identified environmental anxieties in Western Europe and the United States as offering an opportunity for mischief-making . |
| 7 | Doctor Elizabeth Howe , from Oxford , was stabbed to death last July while attending a summer school at York University . |
| 8 | He had bought pictures by Minton and Ayrton whilst having an affair with Ayrton 's mother . |
| 9 | One of the leading dancers with the Ballet Club , she is described by Luyt as having a brilliant technique , and he says she ‘ was compact and a dream to do double-work with , and was fearless in trying out death-defying lifts ’ . |
| 10 | She was a veteran nymphette who had been kicked out of Shangri-la for seducing the monks . |
| 11 | It is therefore possible to see Powell as making a serious empirical and theoretical contribution towards the development of a sociology of character . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the Christians ( who could also echo the philosophers ' sentiments ) read the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve as implying a flaw in human sexuality , not necessarily as a cause of sin but as a prime expression of selfish egotism . |
| 13 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 14 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 15 | He also faced the increasingly urgent problem posed by the slow progress of the scholarly revision of the general catalogue of printed books , which , seriously disrupted by the war , had only reached a point early in the letter D. When reporting the matter to the trustees in 1953 , Oldman had to recommend one of two courses : either , having attempted to secure more staff , to press on with revision , or ( as was vigorously advocated by F. C. Francis , the senior of the two keepers serving under Oldman ) , to terminate the work and then reprint volumes photolithographically together with the unrevised remainder , but with accessions from 1905 to 1955 intercalated . |
| 16 | The report singles out Italy and Spain as having the most lax controls in western Europe , but this may be the tip of the iceberg compared to the trade through eastern Europe , which acts as a " clearing house " for importation into other countries . |
| 17 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 18 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |
| 19 | This is the story of Flt Sgt R H Middleton , RAAF , who was posthumously awarded the VC following a raid on Turin while captaining a Stirling of No 149 Squadron . |
| 20 | The Government are right to seek a twin-track approach whereby we retain the essential strength and security of NATO while developing a new role for the Western European Union . |
| 21 | She will travel to Mexico and Jamaica while manicuring the fingernails of the rich and famous . |
| 22 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 23 | ‘ THE next person who says I look like a Blues Brother , gets it , ’ says Suggs while brandishing a brolly at the Madness reunion gig on Saturday . |
| 24 | However , John Howard , an official of their union commented as early as November 1985 that the HMI of Mines feared that the proposed new mining legislation would reduce the power of the HMI whilst raising the power of the colliery manager , who could decide what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ ( Labour Research 1988a ) . |
| 25 | The restitution was described by Klaus as accelerating the re-establishment of a property-owning entrepreneurial middle class . |
| 26 | The emotional quality of the game experience has been characterised by Vygotsky as having a dual affect . |
| 27 | Moreover he was the very fisherman who was mentioned in Our Watering Place as mending a little ship for a boy . |
| 28 | Turning to the conduct of investment business by solicitors , the Society 's second yearly report was accepted by SIB as representing the satisfactory discharge of the Society 's obligations as a recognised professional body . |
| 29 | The same words will be said very differently by Romeo when discussing the future schedule with Juliet . |
| 30 | The next two examples ( 3 and 4 ) show the incident log files produced by ENTER_COMPLETE_ROOT_PACKAGE when entering the following root structure : |