Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 2 | This column argues that maximising revenue and making the next World Cup accessible to all are incompatible . |
| 3 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 4 | A Cheltenham man has since been charged with murder and wounding a second student . |
| 5 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 6 | She turned to look towards the shore , relieved when she saw the Sea-Fret making good headway back to Brides Haven , then a flock of screaming gulls startled her into resuming her climb , and soon she was on the Neck and starting the last , steep push towards the plateau . |
| 7 | He begins to doubt himself , lowering his self-confidence and self-esteem and making the next approach to a girl more difficult . |
| 8 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |
| 9 | Cambridgeshire has adopted in the Chevely area a federal solution by technically ‘ closing ’ ( say ) three schools and enlarging a fourth to operate as a single administrative unit for the four school populations on their own sites . |
| 10 | Larry I. Guerrero was elected Governor in the November 1989 elections , succeeding Pedro P. Tenorio and gaining the third successive term for a Republican . |
| 11 | The company , 86 p.c. -owned by family interests of chairman Garry Weston , also chairman of Sunblest baking giant Associated British Foods , is changing its year-end to July and paying a second interim dividend of 86p , compared with last year 's final of 84p . |
| 12 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 13 | She stopped speaking and winked at my master , taking another sip from his goblet and grabbing the second penny he offered . |
| 14 | Fifthly , the process of reviewing progress and reestablishing the next round of tasks allows any achievement to be reinforced . |
| 15 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |
| 16 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 17 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 18 | It 's mainly a question of confidence and taking the first few steps . |
| 19 | I confirm that you will be writing extending an invitation to join the group and calling the first meeting for 2p.m. on Tuesday 27th April at the university . |
| 20 | Betts , who has appeared jaded after Great Britain 's summer tour Down Under , roared back to top form , helping with two tries and grabbing a third as Wigan confirmed their favouritism for a record fourth consecutive title . |
| 21 | Taking our places under the lights and feeling the first twinges of nervousness , we watched the cameras moving into position . |
| 22 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 23 | Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 . |
| 24 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 25 | ‘ Yer can be paddlin' one minute and swimmin' the next . ’ |
| 26 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |
| 27 | Though one of the youngest dogs in training at Romford — he is still officially classified as a puppy — PJ has already demonstrated a fine turn of paw , winning over 400 metres earlier this month and cracking the 25-second barrier for the first . |
| 28 | Trent waited for a squall to hit , then moved fast , dropping to the ground and crawling the last few yards . |
| 29 | The late afternoon slid into night , bringing a touch of frost and sapping the last of warmth and cheerfulness . |
| 30 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |