Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 2 | If we continue to ignore these people , especially the young , we may be fighting them in the near fu future as they are actively being targeted by the far right British National Party and other fascist organizations that are using this sense of desertion . |
| 3 | We 've done a profile of the courses and guess what they all happen in the school holidays , so this is n't , this is n't over yet in fact for all the user groups , for you , the clubs and the organizations , it really does need a push from you , you must by and large are the deci decision makers , the club officers and I would ask you urgently whether or whether or not your clubs already got its name on the list , to actually support the people within your club that are laying these things on . |
| 4 | Such an aspiration prevailed among some geographers at least partly unaware of first , the revival of interest in human activity ; secondly , the focus in physical geography research upon the magnitude of human impact ; and thirdly , the hazard research that was facilitating closer links between physical and human geography although these links did not impress Johnston ( 1983c ) . |
| 5 | Trainer Kim Bailey has managed to keep the strapping chaser away from the coughing that is affecting some of his stable companions . |
| 6 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 7 | The sight of another horse , especially a friend , will calm and reassure a horse that is feeling anxious or frightened . |
| 8 | And I would have thought us giving five percent and , and there are other provinces that are giving more will ensure at least the the on twelve thousand we pay next year and therefore , starting with eleven and half thousand we paid this year and that provinces and in ourselves went further than that it is possible . |
| 9 | In sectors that are suffering long-term or cyclical decline , arguments are often made for ‘ crisis ’ or ‘ recession ’ cartels , to prevent the scrapping of capacity that will remain viable in the longer term , and to ensure that contraction of the industry occurs in an orderly manner . |
| 10 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 11 | The company said its Manchester-based television firm was well placed to recapture its franchise in the coming auction and is seeking overseas TV opportunities . |
| 12 | in the service of a fire brigade and is donning operational clothing or equipment ; |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I just think the CRE has outlived its usefulness and is wasting public money . ’ |
| 14 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 15 | In longterm studies over several years he shows that with a wheat free diet these children are gaining weight and are reaching anormal growth pattern by comparison with age matched controls . |
| 16 | They are now second to the Conservatives in 145 seats ( against Labour 's 186 ) ; but while 90 per cent of Lib Dem second places are in seats with massive Tory majorities , mainly in the south-east , Labour now has double the Liberal Democrat popular vote and is lying second in 144 seats where the Tory lead is less than 4,000 votes . |
| 17 | David and were agreeing last night how much they like the road . |
| 18 | Detectives have seized 7,000 ecstasy tablets from a flat in the North-East and are linking that to the couple' disappearance . |
| 19 | Within seconds three big men , he would later tell his open-mouthed friends at the club , had leaped out , surrounded his car and were pointing enormous guns at him . |
| 20 | Rhiannon now weighs 14 lbs and is getting bigger and stronger every day . |
| 21 | It 's possible that wilko has learnt his lesson with Rocky and is showing this with Deane . |
| 22 | After all , he could have been thrown from his horse and been lying injured on the moors in the middle of a fierce storm . |
| 23 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 24 | Cuts in budgets mean libraries ca n't afford new books and are opening shorter hours as Simon Garrett reports |
| 25 | It was a fiction that was becoming threadbare in the spring months of 1989 . |
| 26 | So far , the Saudi government has invested £10 billion through an oil-for-arms linked payment arrangement for a contract that is protecting 30,000 defence jobs in Britain . |
| 27 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 28 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 30 | are subsidizing the rich to buy houses that are becoming cheaper onto the market |