Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 2 | Who is this strategy not fair and reasonable , reflecting political maturity and a finer sense of the political art than other communities have managed to achieve ? |
| 3 | The British Oxygen Company ( BOC ) has recently conducted trials using liquid nitrogen and a specially developed vacuum cleaner to kill house dust mites in carpets . |
| 4 | It is a marriage of convenience between workers in many fields — archaeologists , geographers , geologists , botanists and zoologists — who do not want the barriers of 19th century subject divisions to stand in the way of understanding the way in which the human environment has evolved , the human role in shaping that environment and the ways in which humans gained a living from it . |
| 5 | Using that heading and the eleven listed words , you could then create the thought-flow chart on the following page . |
| 6 | There is no doubting that unemployment and the economic depression dominated the politics of the inter-war years . |
| 7 | They may be intent on impressing each other or the chairman or involved in little power games to prove who is the real leader of the group . |
| 8 | He could be working something out , but he may just be enjoying emotional relaxation and a purely sensory level of play . |
| 9 | In this time I have noted the steady increase of people pursuing this activity and an equally heavy resistance to the sport by landowners and fishing groups . |
| 10 | interest of maintaining public order and the common good ’ ( Smith 1983 p.124 ) . |
| 11 | It is only by maintaining this rule that the advocate can be kept free from any possible charge of hypocrisy . |
| 12 | Chapter 5 discussed ways of subjectively quantifying decreasing uncertainty as the project progresses . |
| 13 | It was not raining this time and the train went through to Latimer Road unhindered . |
| 14 | Sometimes it 's because it 's so many people that are using this method that the importance of what you 're trying to say tends to be dismissed and therefore . |
| 15 | Using this method and the data of Goodglass and Quadfasel ( 1954 ) she estimates language laterality in left handers to be predominantly or exclusively left-sided in 60 per cent of cases and right sided in approximately 40 per cent . |
| 16 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 17 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | See Ord 21 , r 2(2) as to payment of costs before bringing another action where the plaintiff has been nonsuited or struck out . |
| 19 | The economic crisis of the early 1980s played a part in this decline in take-up of education , and hit the poorest sectors of society hardest , sharpening social differentiation and the concentration of wealth . |
| 20 | They have these enormous canine teeth again stabbing each other and the thick blubber round the neck again as a defence and if the canines go in they go into the blubber and not to arteries and stuff like that . |
| 21 | From the outset a policy was adopted which aimed at eliminating unnecessary jargon and the mystique normally associated with computers . |
| 22 | In Britain , the home of strong government and political stability , the post-war years — or , at least , since 1964 — have been marked by an instability of policy , intensifying social conflict and a record of economic failure . |
| 23 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 24 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 25 | Apart from acquiring factual information and an understanding of the author 's main points of view , you should always be aware of the historiographical dimension . |
| 26 | These histories may be pictured as being like the surface of the earth , with the distance from the North Pole representing imaginary time and the size of a circle of constant distance from the North Pole representing the spatial size of the universe . |
| 27 | She had been halfway through wallpapering one room when the pull of the sun had grown too strong to resist a second longer . |
| 28 | You 'll probably be better off just keeping one male and a group of females to prevent the problems of territoriality between rival males , which can sometimes occur with Platies and Swordtails . |
| 29 | This research aims to provide a clearer understanding of the problems of adopting new technology and the implications which this can have on training provisions for UK businesses . |
| 30 | This meant that there was a limit beyond which wages could be reduced without harming the industrial process or generating such misery that the workers would rebel against the system . |