Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The library , with its vague connection with academic work , can hold little attraction for a student struggling to adjust to university life ’ . |
| 2 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 3 | Neither does it lose its sweetness by becoming diluted with rain water . |
| 4 | STEVE BRUCE yesterday warned about the dangers of Manchester United becoming gripped by title fever if they beat Aston Villa in the FA Premier League at Old Trafford tomorrow . |
| 5 | Knowledge of the law relating to control of water pollution , beyond a broad conception of the pollution offences , however , is regarded as unimportant and is claimed by only a small minority of field men , because the job is done ‘ by experience ’ and the application of rules-of-thumb — not ‘ by the book ’ . |
| 6 | An intensive conditioner will work much better if you cover hair with a polythene bag after applying to seal in body heat . |
| 7 | British parties were much in evidence , pursuing climbs like Pic Coolidge via the South Ridge ( F ) from the Temple Ecrins hut for the views , and Les Bans by the E.N.E. Ridge ( PD/PD+ ) from the Pilatte hut — what Collomb claims is ‘ One of the best general mountaineering routes in the park . ’ |
| 8 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 9 | This consequence of existing policy is particularly important in periods of high merger activity when there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity . |
| 10 | The motive behind this may have been the desire to assist monasteries in living according to canon law ; for the Second Lateran Council of 1139 had forbidden churchmen to participate in justice de sang ( the trial of crimes punished by corporal or capital penalties ) . |
| 11 | It was a glimpse of the old Connors , fighting and refusing to walk down memory lane . |
| 12 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 13 | Social workers looking to move into care management jobs will find recruitment opportunities at the Community Care Job Forum and Careers Convention in Manchester on 19 and 20 May . |
| 14 | Managers have not , on the whole , been predisposed to numerically oriented analysis , clinicians have not pushed for cost or outcome data preferring to focus upon patient care processes and cash inputs have been on the basis of fairly crude recurring allocations . |
| 15 | I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres . |
| 16 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 17 | I 'm not going to write about body language in detail because there are already several books on the subject ( see page 120 ) . |
| 18 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 19 | He was going to feed on honey dew and drink the milk of Paradise . |
| 20 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 21 | All the time I was attempting to identify by ear bird noises in the spinney : a jay screeched raucously ; ‘ My toe hurts Betty , ’ crooned a wood pigeon ; a tiny wren ticked its loud emphatic alarm notes ; and over and over a willow warbler trilled . |
| 22 | For many people attempting to escape from state persecution , it is impossible to apply for a passport to the very authorities who are inflicting the persecution . |
| 23 | He made no mention today of a plan about what the Government are going to do about carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 24 | erm And if we are going to compete in world sport then erm and if we have to apply like Manchester , who 's applying for the Olympic Games , we have to have the appropriate stadia . |
| 25 | Subsequently it was suggested ( Hare , 1973 ) that this trend in climatology had been emphasized by three other contributions identified as the micrometeorological method whereby a branch of experimental physics has used experimental techniques to provide physical insights into the nature of the earth 's surface and planetary boundary layers ; the microclimatological method where the techniques of micrometeorological measurement and boundary layer theory together with the related parts of soil physics and plant physiology are applied to exchange and transformation processes over natural surfaces , leading to study of energy transformation at the land surface , water movement upwards and downwards through the soil , and to how carbon dioxide is assimilated during photosynthesis and released during respiration ; and the hydrological method whereby energy exchange during the hydrological cycle was quantified . |
| 26 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 27 | The breakfast choice was just as Rune had described the previous evening , she discovered , running jaundiced eyes over the available spread before deciding to settle for orange juice , yoghurt and black coffee . |
| 28 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |
| 29 | Ya ha , Joanne you 're going to die of alcohol poisoning ! |
| 30 | And when are you going to get to Stone Haven ? |