Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 2 | Large women sit knitting alongside neat men in tweed jackets , teenagers in torn jeans , mothers and children and the elderly . |
| 3 | It was no more and no less than this : he had deserted the only proper employment of the human mind , theology , to go a-whoring after other studies and other learning . |
| 4 | It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones . |
| 5 | Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams . |
| 6 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 7 | General manager David Melvin said : ‘ We provide catering to 350 outlets within the region , including schools , but we have to tender for that business . |
| 8 | From this point on everyone in the movie starts colliding like large tankers with their navigation shot to hell . |
| 9 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 10 | So if you were caught speeding at 90 miles an hour along the M4 in Wiltshire your fine would calculate something like this |
| 11 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 12 | In order to examine in more detail the interaction between socio-political context , economic problems and educational policies pursued by governments , the case-study countries are grouped according to key problems and the variety of ways in which governments have attempted to deal with them . |
| 13 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 14 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 15 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 16 | Recognizing that people do act according to established beliefs and pre-existing knowledge systems , he focuses upon distinguishing between the establishment of those beliefs ( which he calls ‘ ideologies ’ ) and action in accordance with those beliefs . |
| 17 | But once one starts looking at such headings , questions arise . |
| 18 | Like most young people Sarah Jacobs loves looking at fashionable clothes . |
| 19 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 20 | It follows that the methods by which gold was obtained differed according to social circumstances . |
| 21 | Food , discipline , standards of living , the curriculum , educational facilities , study opportunities and employment prospects were all examined and found wanting by increasing numbers of students . |
| 22 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 23 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 24 | A man 's advice to men at midlife is neither to try dressing like younger men nor to neglect the way they dress . |
| 25 | If not , as some changes will be made to its membership after the election , will he consider writing to all Members explaining how the system works — what the Public Accounts Commission , the Public Accounts Committee and the NAO do ? |
| 26 | It was for this reason that his master-class in Spanish history took the form of a film , Raza ; and for the same reason that the frequency of his appearances in the state-produced cinema newsreels , No-Do , varied according to external circumstances and internal convenience , increasing when things were going well , decreasing when they were not . |
| 27 | The selection of those who might have the right varied according to immediate tactics but , in general , Engels reserved his most withering scorn — and violent prejudice — for ‘ non-historical peoples ’ , |
| 28 | Some are so strongly aromatic as to be spicy , and tarragon in particular is one of the few that has such a strong taste it does need adding in minuscule amounts to meat or fish dishes . |
| 29 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 30 | This could include providing for zero quotas on all African nations — or selectively reducing quotas to help stop poached ivory slipping into legal trade . |