Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 2 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 3 | Be explicit at the point where you leave off summarising and your own words take over ( see below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 , for techniques which enable you to do this ) . |
| 4 | This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Cameron , are you suggesting that your repeated speeches — and mind , we have abundant eye-witness testimony concerning them — contained no word about the driving out of proprietors ? |
| 6 | Some women , and hopefully more women , will turn that into political action — whether that 's demanding a playgroup for or whether it 's demanding that their political leaders were mainly male , pay more attention to women . |
| 7 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 8 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 9 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Bernard soon took against the idea and Laura fought doggedly to keep them , believing that her loyal customers were entitled to receive the benefits from any advantage like this . |
| 11 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 12 | Willie carried on imagining that his dirty feet were wrapped in rags and newspapers and when the scene came to an end he shuffled slowly off the stage . |
| 13 | Are you inferring that my sexual preferences have any remote resemblance to your fancy photographer 's ? ’ |
| 14 | But such effects are much less evident with food reinforcers , implying that our normal procedures for appetitive conditioning will not usually involve an inhibitory component . |
| 15 | A few seconds later de Craon bustled in , his face wreathed in an unctuous smile , bobbing and bowing while his snakelike eyes scrutinised the King . |
| 16 | By the time she reached this point in her narrative , Lou 's eyes had hardened , her nostrils were flaring and her small-boned hands were gripping her knees like talons . |
| 17 | But classical foundationalism gives the distinction content by adding that our basic beliefs are beliefs which concern the nature of our own sensory states , our own immediate experience . |
| 18 | Her teeth were chattering and her unshod feet felt like blocks of ice . |
| 19 | Neither of them felt up to leading and their enquiring eyes forced me into the lead . |
| 20 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 21 | The Second Report in 1955 ( HMSO 1955 ) was more optimistic , with the Committee stating that its earlier recommendations had had some influence over employers . |
| 22 | And when the stars ' faces filled the whole screen so that you saw their huge lips close up like big pillows moving and their great teeth and their smooth matt skin filling the whole screen , it was frightening . |
| 23 | It is in this spirit that we can greet Rollin 's attempt to resolve the ‘ entire question of toxicity ’ , if we extend the field beyond drugs to insecticides , preservatives , children 's toys , and the rest , by demonstrating that our own interests and those of experimental animals overlap : ‘ Basically , it is in both our interests to diminish the number of potentially toxic substances being introduced into the market and into the environment ’ ( 1981 : 99 ) . |
| 24 | The Board is simply saying that its own policies will also be explicitly only for companies . |
| 25 | You are responsible for that job and you are identified on the project quality plan check list as to what you will be doing and what other members of the team will be doing . |
| 26 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 27 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 28 | Both were time served joiners , Brian Linighan insisting that his talented sons learned a trade too . |
| 29 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 30 | At first , he thought little of it , assuming that their parallel paths , like those of all travellers , would eventually diverge . |