Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not be putting together the salad on your plate or cooking your main course in the kitchen , but you do have a certain control over what goes onto your plate . |
| 2 | But an even greater cause for resentment is that she may feel guilty about meeting her friends or pursuing her usual weekday activities unless her partner is also busy . |
| 3 | Fr Leonardo Boff , a renowned Brazilian liberation theologist condemned by the Vatican to a year 's silence in 1985 [ see p. 33823 ] , was banned by the Vatican with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 , from preaching or pursuing his theological teaching at the university in Petrópolis , 50 km north-east of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 4 | If you are small and unknown , a firm of consultants acting on your behalf or using its existing knowledge base may be more realistic . |
| 5 | The Gallagher jurisdiction rule is uncertain ; the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist B's appeal combined with its refusal to certify prevented B from resolving the uncertainty or ascertaining what English law is on this matter . |
| 6 | By the use of these techniques of neutralization , which are themselves embedded in the ‘ structural immorality ’ of corporations , executives are able to violate the law without feeling guilt or denting their respectable self-image . |
| 7 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 8 | Women 's vision of their future in a new society is closely related to their own experiences and education and whether they have been in touch with the women 's movement outside of El Salvador , Some suggest that a new society will bring an end to the repression , the constant fear , the torture , the deaths and disappearances , It will mean they can return home , either leaving the refugee camps in San Salvador or ending their enforced exile abroad , to start to rebuild their homes in the knowledge that the army will not descend on them again . |
| 9 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 10 | Suppose , for example , a particular spirit has chosen this lifetime to learn how to deal with the temptation to do deliberate wrong to others — whether by spreading malicious lies about them , stealing from them or causing them physical harm . |
| 11 | This is an adventure cruise in the best romantic tradition as you cruise around the beautiful Greek Islands , the scene changing from one day to the next , diving into the clear , blue water as you anchor for the night , or sipping your cooling drink as the harbour lights of a new port twinkle in the distance . |
| 12 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 13 | The Steam Tank has no armour saving roll — instead its thick iron skin is represented by a very high toughness of 10 , and enemies will need a very high strength to stand any chance of crushing or piecing its armoured shell . |
| 14 | If she is not shovelling food down my throat , or forcing your noxious potions upon me , she is — ’ |
| 15 | People will often play games with their emotions , perhaps in the hope of gaining sympathy , or confirming their particular view of other people or of life generally . |
| 16 | ‘ So how long have you been waiting ? ’ she enquired , refusing to give him the satisfaction of rising to his bait or confirming his accurate character diagnosis . |
| 17 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 18 | To get me ordering oysters or ironing my black satin sheets . |
| 19 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 20 | Yesterday , as they had chatted , the model had been continually fussing with her mane of black curls , or admiring her long finger nails , or smoothing down the skirt of her grey suede suit . |
| 21 | For the female this means cutting or tying her fallopian tubes . |
| 22 | Some hospitals are already trying to make mealtimes more fun by having children 's favourites on the menu or giving them child-friendly utensils , but many hospitals lag behind . |
| 23 | Hardly a month goes by without an event having you uncorking the champagne or counting your remaining blessings . |
| 24 | ‘ The assurances are OK and we have no intention of either looking elsewhere or altering our original itinerary , ’ Smith said . |
| 25 | Beyond that , it is not clear whether any and , if so , what restrictions operate as a matter of fiduciary law to prevent firms from excluding or modifying their fiduciary duties , particular where no prior fiduciary relationship existed and the contract seeks to define the duties of the parties rather than explicitly exclude liability . |
| 26 | We could all equally well have been doing something else with those months of our lives , such as making a programme for Thames or decorating our front rooms . |
| 27 | In considering or interpreting what strict control means for a start erm do we actually mean , does P P G seven actually mean strictly control ? |
| 28 | The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen . |
| 29 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 30 | Anyone teasing or hurting their beloved felines was cursed and threatened . |