Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of these doubts , a powerful consortium using both corporate and national government funding has been formed consisting of such major electronics interests as Philips , Bosch , Thomson and Thorn EMI . |
| 2 | In all three cases , it seems hard to conceive helping in any other way than as doing part of the activity denoted by the infinitive oneself . |
| 3 | It covers trading in all listed and unlisted securities , gilts , and other fixed interest securities on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 4 | They were not , however , modified according to any consistent principle , but by a variety of ad hoc remedies . |
| 5 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 6 | Charlemagne had begun with the clergy , encouraging them to learn and write correct Latin for the liturgy ; two generations later , the lay elite in Charles 's kingdom used writing in several different forms , from books of private prayer to family archives , while many laypeople of lesser rank wanted documents as evidence of their own property claims and legal status . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’ |
| 8 | The residents rejected Dr McDonald 's evidence and proposed calling in another independent researcher of their own to survey the factory , saying further investigation of the cancer risk posed by the factory was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 9 | Without explaining blacksmithing in any great detail ( there are many fine books on the subject ) , the following will demonstrate how to make a simple box bellows and a woodframed forge which need only be lined with firebrick or clay . |
| 10 | Would you please consider donating to this worthy cause . |
| 11 | I will keeping talking to this stupid machine ! |
| 12 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : s fly . |
| 13 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Everyone involved in the filming has enjoyed working in such idyllic surroundings . |
| 16 | In a society which has fully internalized the consequences of the Einsteinian revolution and its off-shoots , an epistemology based on the postulates of classical scientific models is unable to cope with social structures formed according to this new way of thinking . |
| 17 | I was pleased to lose Long John and began to enjoy looking around this strange island . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 19 | Products or services may then have to be fitted or positioned according to these perceived market patterns . |
| 20 | But with the recognition that ‘ Be aware ’ prescribes responding from all relevant viewpoints , the judgement changes to condemnation of the massacres as objectively wrong on the grounds that to be moved against Hitler and on behalf of his victims would be the reaction of anyone , including Hitler himself , who responded impartially from the viewpoints of both . |
| 21 | My personal belief is that sadism may have one or both of two components : a need to dominate — to put another person into an inferior position and to assert oneself by inflicting pain — or a need to destroy arising from some inner hatred of self and/or others in general . |
| 22 | Dad — stop fiddling with that damned desk toy and listen to me ! ’ |
| 23 | The idea of the social security system discriminating against elderly people may , at first sight , seem puzzling to some other groups of claimants . |
| 24 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 25 | ‘ Correct place ’ was measured according to Least Linear Distance . |
| 26 | Amiss hated lying to this nice youth : he changed the subject rapidly . |
| 27 | So long as the fish enjoy feeding on this natural food , it is worth continuing the practice . |
| 28 | The damage cost curve is shown starting at some low value at a small or zero concentration — and increasing rapidly at high concentrations . |
| 29 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 30 | I live a life which is well larded with scares and alarms , but this great dog rising bellowing from that empty landscape was something on its own . |