Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 2 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , on most crags you wo n't see anybody else other than walkers escaping their own crowds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By disrupting the delicate nexus of ties , formal and informal , by which we are linked with our neighbours , crime atomizes society and makes of its members mere individual calculators estimating their own advantage , especially their own chances for survival amidst their fellows . |
| 8 | I thought the idea of kids doing their own thing was that it would be cheap and for everybody , not a clique . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The principles in relation to the taxation of costs after a trial do not prevent the parties reaching their own agreement about costs where a settlement is effected before trial . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is a government Sanitary Committee , but doctors report members as corrupt and irresponsible and companies operating their own control mechanisms can afford to be very lax . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |
| 21 | Are you in favour of parents teaching their own children ? |
| 22 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |
| 23 | Are you in favour of parents teaching their own children ? |
| 24 | Daily newspapers were far more aware of how society was changing and in 1929 London 's Daily Express invited its readers to send in postcards giving their own views on films . |
| 25 | In an interview with the Financial Times of Sept. 24 , Gaidar said that in order to tighten monetary policy the government needed to carry out ( i ) a negotiated exit from the rouble zone by countries creating their own currencies [ see below for Russia 's suspension of financial transactions with Ukraine ] ; ( ii ) a reduction of Russian central bank credits to state enterprises ; and ( iii ) a swift privatization of large state enterprises . |
| 26 | Some ministers use them largely to keep in touch with parliamentary opinion on matters affecting their own departments . |
| 27 | But the nature of the event , with the crews making their own courses on the tidal river , makes prediction a rather fraught activity . |
| 28 | Inevitably more new forms of contract will be produced by different organisations representing their own response to the difficulties of continuing the traditional relationships in the construction process . |
| 29 | Although the juxtaposition of short story and source material would provide in itself a useful basis for an informal discussion of composition and technique , the proposed extension to the activity undertaken here involves participants developing their own story based on the newspaper account . |
| 30 | Years ago , pests were controlled naturally , by one animal species feeding off another — the ‘ pest ’ — or by plants developing their own disease resistance . |