Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 2 | An official media campaign criticized the leaders of the DU ( formed in May 1988 — see p. 36038 ) , accusing them of personal ambition , corruption and links with anti-Soviet emigré organizations , and of seeking the overthrow of the social system . |
| 3 | So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias . |
| 4 | The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police might care to ponder why it is that juries increasingly dismiss the sworn evidence of his officers in favour of those accusing them of gross impropriety . |
| 5 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 6 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 7 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 8 | You are already familiar with the mathematical operations curl , div , and grad ( I prefer using them in vector-operator form ) , and you need no introduction to the concepts of electricity . |
| 9 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 10 | There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text . |
| 11 | He has been a fantastic friend helping me with financial work . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 13 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 14 | Toothed whales usually travel in pods and hunt fish and quid by pursuing them at high speed . |
| 15 | It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision . |
| 16 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 17 | Hilary Armstrong , one of the party 's education spokesmen , yesterday said a Labour government would dismantle the City Technology Colleges , bringing them under local authority control . |
| 18 | They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke . |
| 19 | The expansion in the number and size of towns had already brought increasing numbers of villages within the urban orbit , stimulating them into commercial production for urban needs . |
| 20 | WCS is also useful for testing micro-instruction sequences , before lacing them in read-only storage for permanent use . |
| 21 | They are responsible for the complete replication of the extreme ends of chromosomal molecules and contribute to chromosome stability in protecting them from exonucleolytic degradation and end to end fusion events ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | But Branfoot warned : ‘ I 'll be keeping them under tight control from now on . |
| 23 | She had always tried to emulate Isabelle , too , in buying the best clothes she could afford , and keeping them in pristine condition , making sure she was well-groomed at all times . |
| 24 | Men believed in mastery over women , keeping them in protective custody . |
| 25 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
| 26 | If you are driving them near known pipe or cable runs , take care not to pierce them ; it 's best to drive the new nails as close to existing nail positions as possible for safety . |
| 27 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 28 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |
| 29 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 30 | Then steam or boil the vegetables in a small amount of salted water , before draining and tossing them in melted butter . |