Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants ( who had admitted negligence ) had increased the risk of particular damage occurring and that damage had occurred . |
| 2 | Similar experiments on rabbit oesophagus , which is devoid of submucosal glands , failed to show alkali secretion suggesting that these glands are the source of oesophageal alkalinisation . |
| 3 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 4 | A reader from Crook , County Durham , writes to The Northern Echo complaining that some shops are being unfairly allocated double rations of eggs . |
| 5 | With many businesses waiting up to two-three months for payment , and research showing that many companies fail through poor cash flow , factoring is a very important service to industry . |
| 6 | It passes a law saying that all envelopes must be left unsealed , so that it can open letters with ease . |
| 7 | ‘ Ten , ’ said Ivy , in the tone of an editor saying that this correspondence was now closed . |
| 8 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 9 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 10 | At the instance of the King , Parliament passed an Act decreeing that all ministers in Scotland who had been ordained since 1649 must have their appointments confirmed by the bishop of their diocese . |
| 11 | We sat for an hour wondering if any soup would be issued . |
| 12 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 13 | O. opercularis is very similar to O. bairdi suggesting that any differences may be due to infraspecific variation . |
| 14 | It was enough to get the shop moving and this time they offered Lawrence a replacement — but of an inferior model . |
| 15 | Although I notice extensive second-degree smutting and several blots of what appears to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |
| 16 | For white sail reaching or any point of sail off close-hauled , the genoa sheet should be moved to the outer rail . |
| 17 | The tone of the book is upbeat , with the author arguing that more data of the right sort will resolve the outstanding questions of community ecology . |
| 18 | The most usual method of calculation is to determine the net profit of the business ensuring that this amount is the amount of pre-tax and pre proprietor drawings and pre interest charges . |
| 19 | The Directive also provides for pregnant workers ' right not to do night work if they have a doctor 's certificate stating that such work would endanger their health . |
| 20 | But Engels , in later editions , added a footnote to this sentence stating that this remark does not apply to all human history but only to written history . |
| 21 | This is because in the purchase conditions there will be a provision stating that any contract entered into pursuant to the purchase order will be on the standard conditions of purchase on the back of the order ( see the preliminary statement and cl 1.1 of Precedent 2 ) . |
| 22 | What is required , therefore , is a combination of the two approaches , and it is through support teaching that this combination can be most effectively achieved . |
| 23 | Because numerous theoretical approaches to visual word-recognition postulate horizontal interconnections between detectors evidence suggesting that such interconnections do not exist serves a vital function in adjudicating between theories . |
| 24 | As you 'll see from the diagram , in the year of opening in nineteen ninety nine , on the central section of the l outer northern relief road there are eight thousand vehicles a day using that that road , that 's eight thousand vehicles a day that wo n't be would n't be passing through Knaresborough and through Harrogate . |
| 25 | It 's about one person deciding whether another person ( the unborn baby ) will live or die . |
| 26 | The cost of the court proceeding and any compensation will be borne by the requesting state , which , depending on national legislation , may have recourse to the person responsible for the illegal export . |
| 27 | The entity-type hyper-medium is in a 1 N relationship with pathitem indicating that each hyper-medium object can appear many times as a path item but that each path item refers to only one hyper-medium object . |
| 28 | Menu.tif Test menu showing that this software thinks the RapidCad is a 486 ! |
| 29 | Thow owr leeg campain is priority I have a snee king feeling that this year could be owr year for cup gory . |
| 30 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |