Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 2 | ‘ Discursive consciousness ’ , by contrast , refers to ‘ what actors are able to say , or to give verbal expression to , about social conditions , including especially the conditions of their own action ’ . |
| 3 | Their flexibility , however , enables the trustees to make payments in a manner most suited to all the circumstances , including especially the needs of individual beneficiaries and the fiscal situation . |
| 4 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 5 | Then he stared down at the floor , gathering together the threads of the day . |
| 6 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've spent years reconstructing , integrating , analysing and just plain digging through mud ; cataloguing alien ruins square centimetre by square centimetre and sticking together the pieces of damaged artifacts to form implausible shapes . |
| 8 | The goals of the party were now , he said , " a united democratic Europe based on civil and social rights " , bringing together the values of liberty and equality . |
| 9 | Paramount , in fact , planned a British directors company , bringing together the talents of Reisz , Clayton , Schlesinger and Peter Yates , but dropped the idea when most of these directors emigrated to the US anyway . |
| 10 | Emphasising the need for European co-operation , Mr Stewart said : ‘ By bringing together the resources of various countries , we can take advantage of the complementary know-how and abilities available throughout Europe . |
| 11 | By bringing together the findings from local studies in France and Britain , BPPS and CERVL compare the experiences of similar types of communities in the two countries . |
| 12 | Round-table talks , bringing together the heads of the republics and other big players , could lower the tension . |
| 13 | Thus , methods of drawing together the components of care were developed , especially in federally funded initiatives such as the Community Support Program . |
| 14 | Drawing together the threads of this discussion of community , neighbourhood and locality care , it is possible to construct a simple theoretical framework for study of the empirical question at hand , the closure of two large English mental hospitals . |
| 15 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 16 | Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution . |
| 17 | We can measure the effects of some of the problems listed earlier , by using only the observations at the second time point . |
| 18 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 19 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 20 | ( 9 ) Failure to comply with the Code ( which is designed to protect target company shareholders ) may lead the court to make an order under CA 1985 , s430C , either preventing the offeror from acquiring compulsorily the holdings of non-assenting shareholders under s429 of that Act or specifying terms of acquisition different from those of the offer ( see Re Chez Nico ( Restaurants ) Ltd [ 1992 ] BCLC 192 ) . |
| 21 | SUPERMAN artist Joe Shuster , who lost millions by signing away the rights to the comic book hero he helped create , has died in Los Angeles aged 78 . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , the accounts and budget might be presented in detail but only total net expenditure of each division of service is compared with budget , showing the over-/under-spending and explaining broadly the reasons for any variance . |
| 23 | Discs advance on alarming quantities of Austrian ice cream , back home Madness are dusting away the cobwebs in Finsbury Park . |
| 24 | She appears in a video aimed at driving home the dangers of mixing cars with alcohol . |
| 25 | O saving victim , opening wide the gates of heaven … |
| 26 | An innovation in organisation sectorisation resulted in the regions losing their business roles and becoming purely the providers of services and facilities . |
| 27 | This principle limits the degree to which state agencies and provisions in the area of welfare can take over responsibilities from individuals or from smaller , ‘ natural ’ units , upholding instead the rights of individuals to secure and shape the means with which they shape their role in society autonomously ( von Nell-Breuning , 1976 ) . |
| 28 | [ The DHAC ] regarded the Corporation as representing primarily the interests of property owners and business speculators and not the interests of the working class of Derry . |
| 29 | They ricochet through the trees , slapping away the leaves with a little ticking sound : crack-fzzz-tchktchk . |
| 30 | Besides , his hands , stroking away the strands of wet hair from her face , felt surprisingly nice , firm and competent . |