Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Other initiatives , such as skill-sharing and studio-sharing , forming a group or association , or joining an arts guild , can help reduce some of the financial overheads or create cheaper and often better ways of exhibiting work . |
2 | It is not scaremongering or playing the numbers game to recognise and respond to changes on that scale . |
3 | Flying was even better than she had hoped : better than skiing , better than driving a sports car . |
4 | ‘ It would seem the people of Middlesbrough are about to lose a valuable free open space for the sake of an enterprise aimed primarily at commercial profit rather than providing a sports facility , ’ she said . |
5 | The United States yesterday said that lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia to allow Muslims to defend themselves was an option . |
6 | The G M B speaks for these workers , and we know that abolishing the Wages Council will not provide any hope or prosperity for millions of low paid workers all over Britain . |
7 | Thora Hird on the cover and editing the letters page , Nick Drake to review the singles , Neil Kinnock to review the LPs , Archie Duke and The Ostrich to be in charge of the live section and an 18-page feature on Half Man Half Biscuit |
8 | Gordon Durie stole down the right and seeing the defences lack of organisation , he blasted in a low pass which McCoist drove home first time . |
9 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
10 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
11 | Grannell also changed his pleas in respect of charges of assaulting PC Eric Moss and damaging a police car . |
12 | On the technical side , the project will include a comparative assessment of two different strategies : adding statistical capability to a commercially available GIS , and writing a GIS module within a general statistical computing environment . |
13 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
14 | The trial collapsed after former Defence Minister Alan Clark admitted in court the Government knew firms were supplying machinery to Iraq and breaking an arms embargo . |
15 | In July 1991 six soldiers were charged in connection with the deaths of Karen Reilly and Martin Peake : one with murder , two with attempted murder , and all six with attempting to pervert the course of justice and obstructing the police investigation . |
16 | WIRRAL Magistrates bailed Andrew Ashman 24 , of Waterpark Close in Prenton for 4 weeks for reports after he admitted entering the locker room at Prenton golf club and stealing a sports bag and contents in May . |
17 | The IMF said that the credit was designed to support continuing economic reforms with the aim of achieving 5 per cent growth in 1990/91 , reducing inflation to 15 per cent and strengthening the balance-of-payments position . |
18 | There are juniors who wo n't even speak without nodding and asking the parents permission . |
19 | This is best done by spreading it out on a piece of paper and running an algae magnet , wrapped in a polythene bag , over the particles . |
20 | We raised extra resources for health from common-sense policies like contracting-out , selling surplus land ( which alone raised over £1 billion ) and controlling the drugs budget . |
21 | A couple of the heads appeared to see devolution as an additional chore aimed simply at calculating how to allocate the money and making the books balance . |
22 | The BBC made Sunday a special occasion by shunting On The Record with the party leaders to BBC2 , and showing the EastEnders omnibus edition in the morning . |
23 | There 's always the pressure of playing , of course , and the dangers of being on the road and playing the songs night after night — it 's all too easy to fall into some kind of rut . |
24 | Ian Shaun Pritchard , 27 , of Forest Moor Road , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with fear or provocation of violence and resisting a police constable . |
25 | It destroys the point of the exercise by driving up prices and disrupting the metals market . ’ |
26 | Unlike Oriental contemporaries who begin to practise at school , John — a PE1 tax trainee with Arthur Andersen — began training while pursuing an honours degree in molecular biology and biochemistry at Durham University . |
27 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
28 | Many companies delay payment as long as they can while maintaining an accounts section charged with chasing their own debtors for early settlement of accounts . |
29 | Jordan therefore tried to foster the appearance of progress towards peace while fearing the dangers peace might actually bring . |
30 | He had seen his first Rottweiler in the UK whilst visiting a police dog training centre and he was greatly impressed with his working ability . |