Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 2 | Yet if you establish criteria for nursing and residential care you are adjusting to resources , not need . ’ |
| 3 | There are two big distinctions between cheap and expensive image editing programs : the degree of sophistication they allow for selecting areas of an image , and the amount of colour balancing and pre-press control they have . |
| 4 | It was enough to get the shop moving and this time they offered Lawrence a replacement — but of an inferior model . |
| 5 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 6 | Where our Investigation Department operations involved shipping and small craft we were the specialists to whom they could turn for practical assistance . |
| 7 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
| 8 | With some pushing and shoving and much hilarity we changed and appeared in reasonably good order for our ten minute rehearsal time . |
| 9 | And a highly biasing and prejudicial process it can be . |