Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writers feel that there is much more scope for local authorities using their wide powers to charge to enhance their revenue ( Blair , 1991 ) . |
| 2 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 3 | Many of these nests now contained , in the month of June , sitting birds keeping their unhatched eggs warm . |
| 4 | Even in the darkness she caught the sweep of his eyes touching her naked shoulders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And she lay beside him , her limbs intertwined with his , his furry legs lacing her smooth ones , their matted wetness mingling , and he was murmuring , ‘ My sweet one , my darling , Cati . ’ |
| 7 | Campaign badges and honour markings , yes , those of course , on the greaves protecting their right shanks — in many cases quartered and augmented with extra honours . |
| 8 | Indeed , on most crags you wo n't see anybody else other than walkers escaping their own crowds . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing . |
| 11 | Ice-balls anaesthetising their back-end blood-tatters , |
| 12 | Referral by health professionals entails assessing a patient 's needs , monitoring changes in needs , and knowing the role of other agencies.2 However , significant unmet needs remained despite our study subjects consulting their general practitioners more frequently than subjects in other studies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She heard the click of the gate ; then nothing , except the crickets rubbing their back legs together in the grass . |
| 18 | Most were from fans telling their happy memories of the comedian , who died in April . |
| 19 | The question for politicians of all parties contemplating their electoral prospects in the nineties , must be : what is likely to preoccupy voters most ? |
| 20 | To achieve a similar end , one was opposed to recruits restricting their social networks to other members of the force . |
| 21 | Fingers tapping her upper arms , she focused on him , ‘ So here you are , then … ’ and stopped . |
| 22 | Foreign or French minorities residing in France have a right to regular programmes expressing their particular cultures and life-styles . |
| 23 | Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills . |
| 24 | This has ranged from posts being created without manpower approval to trusts inventing their own titles for grades , which results in grave confusion not only from a manpower perspective but also because different titles may imply competence not possessed by the post holder . |
| 25 | Planners are not skiers ( unfortunately ) and they do n't seem able to read a map either because some of the lines defining their concentric rings go right through the middle of existing ski areas , particularly at Glenshee . |
| 26 | While these groups share the need for the same basic information about what constitutes a Compact , their particular concerns require specific responses addressing their own interests and sensitivities . |
| 27 | For the visitor to the city each will offer very different experiences and with two new directors adding their own personalities to the space , it should be an interesting time for both . |
| 28 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 29 | These developments provided , for a short period , a bridge between the two divided communities emphasising their common problems , their common culture . |
| 30 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |