Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposing factions including the Khmer Rouge finally agreed to a ceasefire last October , and formed a four-party interim coalition , with each component administering its own territory . |
| 2 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 3 | You can really be a snake eating its own tail and drive yourself nuts with , ‘ Will people like this or that ? ’ |
| 4 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 5 | He was having enough difficulty understanding his own feelings , without trying to fathom out Carrie 's . |
| 6 | Again using improvisation as its ethos , the album once more finds Talk Talk sailing blissfully off into the unknown , each musician using their own initiative , steering the music through freeform jazz and contemporary classical music , Hollis occasionally adding a few lines of comfort and despair in his fragile and tender voice . |
| 7 | We witness the protagonists drawing their own parallels between their story and Homer , Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ , Poe and thrillers , but in a way which suggests that the act of narrating is not separated from events . |
| 8 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |
| 9 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 10 | Indeed , on most crags you wo n't see anybody else other than walkers escaping their own crowds . |
| 11 | The letter from earlier in the year to the Chief Executive of the Council has been followed up by this department investigating its own use of peat — which is fairly limited . |
| 12 | For over a decade I lived with this new knowledge and with the ethical dilemma surrounding my own pursuit of insider research . |
| 13 | Anyone interested in writing a short piece describing their own efforts ( whether in writing or by word of mouth ) is invited to let me know by 1st May . |
| 14 | Next up was David Stewart of Charles Wilson Booksellers , a veteran of the school market , who warned that Roy Davey 's suggestion that ‘ it was down to every publisher to be in schools selling their own books ’ would in his view lead to chaos . |
| 15 | At mid-price and also available separately , these sets offer considerable savings on full price recordings , and you have the guarantee of classic performances from the likes of Bernstein , Furtwángler , Böhm , Klemperer , von Karajan , Hans Knappertsbush , Clemens Krauss , Walter , Schuricht and Richard Strauss conducting his own music . |
| 16 | Does being assertive mean getting your own way ? |
| 17 | In paper based systems information was ‘ clumpy ’ , each department holding its own files , and exchanging comparatively little information with other bodies . |
| 18 | With three of last season 's Halifax dissidents representing Bradford , and the famously short-fused Brendan Hill facing his former club , a small corner of Calderdale was positively incandescent . |
| 19 | By disrupting the delicate nexus of ties , formal and informal , by which we are linked with our neighbours , crime atomizes society and makes of its members mere individual calculators estimating their own advantage , especially their own chances for survival amidst their fellows . |
| 20 | I thought the idea of kids doing their own thing was that it would be cheap and for everybody , not a clique . |
| 21 | The Leadon 's major tributaries are the Tibberton , Ell and Glynch Brooks , each brook having its own mills |
| 22 | The Tories desperately want to claim their befuddled education policy is working while schools running their own budgets strain to publicise exam results , hoping to attract pupils . |
| 23 | ‘ Somebody should give you practice drinking your own whisky . |
| 24 | The principles in relation to the taxation of costs after a trial do not prevent the parties reaching their own agreement about costs where a settlement is effected before trial . |
| 25 | To watch such animals biting their own bodies as a way of providing novel stimulation is to see just how inadequate even the most modern zoos are for this type of species . |
| 26 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | The patent absence of police-picket accommodation at all times may be partially explained in terms of a communication context characterised by a steady accumulation of negative encounters between the police and NUM , a complete lack of liaison between South Yorkshire police and the organisers of the mass picket , frequent resort to tactics of surprise and NUM leaders steadfastly resisting media pressure to disavow picket-line violence involving their own rank and file . |
| 28 | Kids making their own bombs and chucking " em into the tanks , getting theirselves blown up … those lousy Russians , sound worse than the Jerries , if you ask me . |
| 29 | Above him was a bright layer of restless , silvery white , the balls of shining air rushing from his escape valve carrying their own brightness to the world of light above . |
| 30 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |