Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hunt supporters are facing a possible jail sentence after admitting they assaulted a hunt saboteur . |
| 2 | Advances in understanding other receptors and in devising methods for isolating them gave a more fundamental approach to the morphine problem . |
| 3 | He blames Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell for making him sign the public immunity certificate . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks for letting us have the keys . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Changed your mind about helping us find the creature ? ’ asked Mr Crangle . |
| 6 | ‘ Suppose Angy changed her mind about letting him have the ring ? ’ |
| 7 | You see , I 've no intention of helping you ruin a man I admire . ’ |
| 8 | Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life . |
| 9 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 10 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 11 | This not only enables them easily to recheck particular information if they need to , but it also has the effect of encouraging them to consult a wider range of sources of information . |
| 12 | The British government argued , first , that such a change would have the effect of forcing them to adopt a type of system for documenting civil status which would have considerable administrative consequences and would impose new duties on the population . |
| 13 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 14 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 15 | O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little . |
| 16 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 17 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 18 | The sadness in Monique Lavaux 's eyes had emphasised to her that there was no future in allowing herself to love a man who was committed to another woman . |
| 19 | Unless you have a specific allergy , there is no great harm in taking something to relieve an isolated headache . |
| 20 | The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets . |
| 21 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 22 | ‘ You have shown our hand to the other side by saying we have no chance . |
| 23 | PWL 's managing director David Howells entered the debate on Kylie 's future by insisting she had the qualities to see her endure in the same way pop 's Peter Pan Cliff Richard had . |
| 24 | I would like to follow up your article on the Letters page of April 's Woodworker by asking you to put the following question to your experts or readers . |
| 25 | It is also wise to make the most of any planned concessions by using them to achieve a notable reduction in tension , thereby making it more likely that the seller will reciprocate . |
| 26 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 27 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 28 | These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string . |
| 29 | He has already dumped reserves , while yesterday defender Matt Jackson and Stuart Barlow Kendall said : ’ You expect a reaction to the kind of hammering I have the players on Saturday . |
| 30 | ( Also , just because of the difficulty of proving who caused the damage , fire insurers generally find it easier to give the necessary consent to waiver of their subrogation rights , without which the arrangements could not work . ) |