Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 2 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 3 | They stood almost touching each other for a full minute . |
| 4 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 5 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 6 | In its final form , it contained some half dozen suites of rooms in two wings opposing each other across a central court . |
| 7 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 8 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 9 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 10 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 11 | An essay on the pitfalls of including political words in a dictionary is wildly funny . |
| 12 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 13 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 14 | Do you think that there was a changeover from being practical , I mean can you remember seeing that transition from the very practical shade to the , to , to the light fitting becoming something decorative ? |
| 15 | Stir the batter , then make at least eight pancakes in a small , non-stick frying pan , cooking each side in a small amount of oil or fat until golden . |
| 16 | across and it 's touching that hole in the middle and she 's getting all blocked up and the stuff 's running all the way down the back of your throat , that right ? |
| 17 | The United States has succeeded in turning a politically-isolated , murderous tyrant into a heroic myth before the liberation of Kuwait has even begun , while waging total war against the civilian society of Iraq , whose citizens are no more responsible for the war than you or me . |
| 18 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 19 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 20 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 21 | One can see the publishers emerging from that smoke-filled room , slapping each other on the back : ‘ Baby , we not only have a trilogy here , we have a thesaurus . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 23 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 24 | The whole of Holland , for example , was to be covered by SO 2 sensors at different heights , feeding into a computerized system drawing iso-concentration lines on a map of the country . |
| 25 | It rises , drawing exhausted air from the central galleries and the deeper parts of the hill , creating a circulation . |
| 26 | The classical elite theorists , Mosca , Pareto and Michels , all made strong claims to have established a scientific theory proving that government by a small elite over the rest of society is inevitable . |
| 27 | Try knitting each variation in the same design . |
| 28 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 29 | An inverse correlation between the level of DNA-protein complex formed and the level of MHC class II gene mRNA expressed in the three cell lines was apparent , suggesting that overexpression of a DNA binding factor forming complexes with class II promoter elements may cause repression of MHC class II transcription . |
| 30 | He concludes by suggesting that membership of the group that accepts children with disabilities as full members of the human tribe , is open to all . |