Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And every day Allan and Barbara and the doctors treating him have to face the dilemma of keeping alive the boy they feel would be better off dead . |
| 2 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 3 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you suppose is happening all the time we 're making the cover ? ’ |
| 5 | Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises . |
| 6 | This conception of law as thesis is therefore a product of constructivist rationalism : it is born of the belief that law is the result of human design ; that order in society is founded on the conception of law as taxis ; and that the political authority is capable of acquiring all the knowledge it needs in order to exercise its absolutist powers wisely . |
| 7 | The motor is of professional quality , and was quite capable of tackling all the materials we tried it on , from thick kitchen worktop to metal pipes and plastic sheeting , provided the correct blades were used . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked . |
| 9 | If by any chance there are errors in the minutes , then by accepting such a motion you are authorising the Chairman to sign the minutes complete with the errors as the correct record of the previous meeting . |
| 10 | We were — ’ I thought up a good lie quickly ; they 're the best ones ' — remembering all the times we had when we were students . |
| 11 | Suddenly he thumped the arm of his chair with his fist , remembering all the times he 'd caught Stella on the stairs in the middle of the night , staring at the telephone . |
| 12 | Waking up was a process of gradually remembering all the things I had to feel bad about . |
| 13 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 14 | Normally there 's no problem filling all the orders I get from the Heymouth hotels and others in the area , with dozens of braces over and above that to send to Edinburgh , Glasgow and London . |
| 15 | And if you have once demonstrated you skill at copying chairs , you can get on with meeting all the requests you will surely have from family and friends . |
| 16 | Granting such an appeal he felt would have endangered respect for the law . |
| 17 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 18 | There were kids dressed in velvet cloaks who lived free lives ; there were thousands of black people everywhere , so I would n't feel exposed ; there were bookshops with racks of magazines printed without capital letters or the bourgeois disturbance of full stops ; there were shops selling all the records you could desire ; there were parties where girls and boys you did n't know took you upstairs and fucked you ; there were all the drugs you could use . |
| 19 | The final moments in the life of 79th Fighter Squadron — with the last ribbon added to the squadron 's battle streamer — symbolising all the battles it 's fought in during its 75 years service . |
| 20 | Then they could all pool their energy and intelligence into solving all the problems we face . |
| 21 | His response was the great ode , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , a masterpiece reflecting all the thinking he had done about poetry , pain , and redemption during his years of silence . |
| 22 | Although maintaining all the Services we should , it was possible to ‘ go up West ’ almost every week . |
| 23 | Using all the tact I can muster , I try to explain this . |
| 24 | So we 're using all the money we 've ploughed into the business to expand . |
| 25 | Now she was using her pathetic pleading little voice , the one that still could affect him even though he knew she was performing , using all the tricks she used to keep her place as the most important member of her bloody drama group . |
| 26 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 27 | And I 'm eating all the stuff I should n't be eating ! |
| 28 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 29 | And I hear that a girl in Pankow is breaking 1.80 every time she jumps . ’ |
| 30 | If you have a lot of pictures on the walls this will light them beautifully as well as providing all the light you will need for comfort and safety . |