Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large women sit knitting alongside neat men in tweed jackets , teenagers in torn jeans , mothers and children and the elderly . |
| 2 | I hate driving round this with the rack on I absolutely hate it if it 's windy it 's awful . |
| 3 | However , his finance director , James Kerr-Muir , revealed that it will lead to a £900 million goodwill write-off for Kingfisher and push gearing above 60 per cent . |
| 4 | The catering industry as a whole experiences seasonal demands for additional labour but , more important , those firms which provide catering for special " events " — exhibitions , cultural sporting or social occasions — have to cope with dramatic day-to-day variations in their demand for labour [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 5 | General manager David Melvin said : ‘ We provide catering to 350 outlets within the region , including schools , but we have to tender for that business . |
| 6 | Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography |
| 7 | It has been shown that more than one third of all new businesses cease trading within two or three years of start up and the vast majority of those remaining in business are small throughout their economic life . |
| 8 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
| 9 | OSF LOOKING FOR SCALABLE TECHNOLOGY |
| 10 | Consciousness and matter interact according to this principle . |
| 11 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 12 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 13 | They are er Stuart but they replace replacing by eleven new trees to be planted eight among the seating area on Albert Street and three on erm the footway outside the Horse and Groom . |
| 14 | Some stock , such as technical reports and back issues of periodicals , will be housed away from Aviation House , and the CAA suggest telephoning on 0293 573725 to check for availability before making a journey to Gatwick . |
| 15 | Press reporting in 1985 |
| 16 | Example 2 is a common blues lick descending from high A down to A two octaves lower . |
| 17 | Police say dealing with such situations presents them with a dilema … between safety and |
| 18 | Community groups in many parts of the country have trained staff who will install insulation and fit draughtproofing at little or no cost for people on low incomes . |
| 19 | The argument that converted barns provide housing for rural communities is well and truly scotched by the average price of conversions — well beyond the means of local people . |
| 20 | Right has anyone got anything they want raising from that list ? |
| 21 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : s fly . |
| 22 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : |
| 23 | It can help us explain why the entrenched and the familiar can suddenly appear conditional and temporary , and inject meaning into those long-forgotten disputes which are bubbling to the surface , especially within the Soviet bloc . |
| 24 | There is nothing more depressing than a collection of so-called first editions and rare items displaying faded spines , mull bursting through cracked hinges , scarred leather inadequately treated with greasy polish , mending tape of various hues round the spine , head and tail bands hanging forlornly and , perhaps worst of all , a badly lettered brown paper cover holding the whole thing together . |
| 25 | Following on from difference ( 2 ) — the integration difference — most real hypertext applications involve working with other tools . |
| 26 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 27 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 28 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 29 | LEFT Our ideas of the appearance of our prehistoric ancestors change according to current social attitudes . |
| 30 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |