Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 2 | It had seemed right and touching that verbal arrangements had not been necessary ; but now I could n't help wishing we had spoken about it , and he had said , " Dearest , it shall be the climax of our wonderful holiday , and when I come home … " |
| 3 | By beginning with the ‘ duty to be publicly accountable ’ the GASB is allowing that financial reporting can be defined in part without explicitly referring to users ' needs . |
| 4 | No-one , neither from the Presbyterian side nor the Episcopalian , dared answer this proposal until Richard Baxter broke the silence by suggesting that Roman Catholics and Socinians be exempted from this liberty . |
| 5 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 6 | Deng 's visit followed publication of a series of articles in the official Chinese media suggesting that economic reform , slowed in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the austerity drive which followed it , was ready to accelerate . |
| 7 | This can be raised to a higher level by suggesting that personal disputes be settled informally and those between state and citizen formally . |
| 8 | Are you suggesting that non-stop trains , tender first running , and double track are the major concerns of our customers ? |
| 9 | A recent report by stockbrokers UBS Phillips and Drew ( 1992 ) draws attention to this factor , suggesting that actual rates of depreciation of capital in the UK have been well in excess of official assumptions as to rates of depreciation , aided by an overvalued exchange rate . |
| 10 | In his Materia Medica the Greek Dioscorides listed some two hundred kinds of stone , including oxides , suggesting that friable ones be reduced to powder for taking internally and hard ones worn as amulets . |
| 11 | Stephan Brüback of the German shop design specialist Hans Brüback Landenbau & Verkaufstechnik took a visual approach to the theme of customer recognition , suggesting that social differences be accepted and even adopted in the definition of a shop 's corporate identity . |
| 12 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing that excellent report to my attention . |
| 13 | Soon I 'll be handling that magnificent specimen , I thought . |
| 14 | It is , however , encouraging that statutory authorities are beginning to see how helpful advocacy schemes can be in alerting them to easily ignored issues and in raising awareness of users ' rights , particularly those focused on legal and civil liberties and welfare benefit entitlements . |
| 15 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 16 | And no transgression , either , is involved in accepting that moral views and ideals must take account of , and be responsive to , facts . |
| 17 | Many people are uncertain about accepting that disabled artists might also be accountable to a disabled constituency . |
| 18 | While accepting that Roman Catholicism contained many errors and abuses , they denied that the pope was the Antichrist and that it was impossible for Catholics to attain salvation . |
| 19 | It was also acknowledged that it would be necessary to determine which information objects should be indexed , accepting that certain brochures , circulars and so on would probably be excluded from this general requirement . |
| 20 | Faced by such diverse interpretations of the new adversary , the Reagan Presidency in 1985 , rather than return to Kissinger 's ideal of ‘ linkage ’ in a period of détente , decided to pursue a policy of ‘ constructive confrontation ’ with Moscow , accepting that certain agreements with Russia were possible even if she remained a rival on the world stage . |
| 21 | Increasingly today , they are accepting that scientific pronouncements have an unavoidable element , not only of subjectivity , but also of informed guesswork about them . |
| 22 | I do not make any apology for accepting that single millionaires will be at an advantage in that situation , but the millions of people on lowish incomes , particularly the retired , will be penalised most . |
| 23 | O'Brien 's solution bears a remarkable similarity to the Ulster Unionists ' — even-handed selective internment , first in the North and then in the South , accompanied by a determination by London to drop its neutrality , accepting that direct rule is the best thing available , politically . |
| 24 | In reforming Brown , Mr Magaziner pioneered a number of techniques seen later on the task force : studying the problem exhaustively ( his report on the curriculum was 425 pages long ) ; building a consensus ( he organised fashionable dances , admitting only those who had helped with the report ) ; coming up with breathtakingly bold proposals ; and hinting that dire consequences might follow if the establishment resisted his ideas . |
| 25 | We became good friends and I remember his comments one day when we were discussing the ever-rising cost of living ; Lawren said , wrinkling that high forehead under the white mane of hair , ‘ This high cost of living worries me ; one of these days , if it continues to rise , I 'll have to dip into capital ! ’ |
| 26 | He was joking , deliberately using that cool mockery to pay her back . |
| 27 | The form of that life and the machinery by which it is prevented from supplanting the political power accepted by the populace , can be settled without strife only when the basis of the religion has been firmly established by men and women using that glorious power of reason which is life 's greatest gift . |
| 28 | Speaker 1 could then accommodate by using that variant back to speaker 2 : though this would only appear as convergence where speaker 1 would " normally " use that variant less than speaker 2 . |
| 29 | Linda Fraser prepares five mouth-watering meals for the family , using that perennial favourite — mince |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't yow ever let me catch yow using that terrible stuff agen ! ’ he bawled . |