Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are the British Government doing to resolve that question ? |
| 2 | These darkening extremities , or ‘ points ’ , then slowly spread as the young cat becomes mature and by the end of the first year the Siamese has its adult pattern , with the nose colour covering most of its face , the dark ear-fringe spreading to include most of its ear surface , the tail-tip colour extending right up to near the base of its tail , and the pigment at the feet stretching halfway up its legs . |
| 3 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just a broke student trying to earn some money over the summer , and I do n't think I 'm all that articulate . ’ |
| 5 | This prompted Jeremiah Allen and three friends to form a private company offering to insure any boiler that they had inspected for safety . |
| 6 | 11. ( 1 ) A Member or any other person proposing to transfer any Shares shall give a Transfer Notice to the Company and the Transfer Notice shall constitute the Company his agent for the sale of the Shares therein mentioned at the Prescribed Price to any Member or Members . |
| 7 | 11. ( 1 ) A Member or any other person proposing to transfer any Shares shall give a Transfer Notice to the Company and the Transfer Notice shall constitute the Company his agent for the sale of the Shares therein mentioned at the Prescribed Price to any Member or Members . |
| 8 | One electric lamp the others all be the the butty would have the electric lamp , and he 'd also carry an oil lamp for testing for gas , and er I can remember going nearly a whole shift having to carry this lamp right down on the floor , carry it up into the heading you see ? |
| 9 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |