Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Henry Irish , 31 , of Woodland Hill , Leeds , was yesterday committed to Durham Crown Court for trial , charged with handling stolen men 's suits worth more than £300,000 . |
| 2 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 3 | Nothing for us knocking each others ' doors at nights about midnight coming for a swim and we 'd all go down . |
| 4 | The most sumptuous of all the decorations was undoubtedly a huge Chinese Ming-dynasty celadon porcelain vase embellished with elaborate and highly wrought ormolu mounts incorporating ring-toothed lions ' heads of around 1760 . |
| 5 | The idea is that all results are published and schools are then placed in league tables , so the main purpose of the tests is as much about the stimulation of competition as it is about diagnosing individual children 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 6 | However , the question of housing does require more extended treatment , both for its centrality as a material resource in the pattern of life chances of black people and for its possible role in understanding black pupils ' achievements in British schools . |
| 7 | For more than a decade , Sellafield has been Western Europe 's biggest industrial construction site , employing 5,000 contractors ' employees in addition to its own staff of around 7,000 . |
| 8 | ‘ Optioning ’ , they call it ; nicking best-selling authors ' plot-lines we call it , but increasingly novels have formed the bedrock of Hollywood 's biggest grossing films . |
| 9 | Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday . |
| 10 | Nightingale rejected Mill 's criticism that her Notes on Nursing restricted women 's opportunities in the medical world by saying that feminism urged ‘ women to do all men do including the medical and other professions , merely because men do it , and without regard to whether this is the best women can do ’ . |
| 11 | However , it continues , GPs can not interpret the provisions for extra-contractual referrals as a licence to disregard the contract arrangements since DHAs are accountable for expenditures and ‘ can not therefore be put in the position of being a mere cypher and reflecting individual GPs ' wishes regardless of their effect on other patient services ’ . |
| 12 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 13 | The other was that in defining individual teachers ' roles , schools were asked to recognize the importance of job-satisfaction . |
| 14 | To the politicians the increase in the ratio means they are getting better value for money , greater efficiency — each student educated is costing fewer taxpayers ' pounds . |
| 15 | They saw the school as condoning these teachers ' attitudes . |
| 16 | The challenge of meeting all children 's needs and of helping them achieve their rights can only be met by concerted efforts of governments of multi-lateral agencies and bi-lateral donors , as well as by the path-breaking initiatives of N G Os such as Save The Children . |
| 17 | She had no doubt that her children were too important to be brought up by anyone else and , as others went on to become household names , she became a full-time mother , writing occasional children 's books as well as a storybook-guide to the handling of epilepsy based on experiences with her own son . |
| 18 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 19 | She accuses Kingsley of mingling other travellers ' experiences with her own and writing of what she had never seen . |
| 20 | Gone are the roving gangs of party militants who would sneak round in the dead of night replacing other parties ' posters with their own and often clashing violently with rival gangs . |
| 21 | Local authorities were given the duty of inspecting all fostered children under seven , appointing infant life protection officers , and inspecting voluntary children 's homes . |
| 22 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |
| 23 | or more pairs stood , grasping each others ' wrists . |
| 24 | Bickerton ( 1973 ) provides detailed analyses using statistical scaling of variables to produce an implicational scale , ranking different speakers ' grammars in such a way that each grammar ( corresponding to a " lect " ) differs from the next by just one rule . |
| 25 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 26 | Temporary appropriations for paying civil servants ' wages and unemployment and sickness benefits will have run out by then . |
| 27 | He was enrolled on 8 March 1790 , paying six months ' fees in advance , and completed his training on 7 March 1 791 . |
| 28 | The emphasis in Fast Forward 3 is on improving upper-intermediate students ' skills in the areas of speaking , listening comprehension , and intensive reading . |
| 29 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 30 | Distinguishing some children 's books as ‘ classics ’ does serve one valuable purpose : it is the recognition that they are works of merit in their own right . |