Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [v-ing] [noun] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our biochemistry is part dragon : the " R-complex " , which awakens when our thinking and feeling brains are off guard , in trance , afraid or asleep , is a dragon brain . |
| 2 | Mass lobbying , research and monitoring lorries are among the tactics planned in a campaign that would unite various communities , groups , and more than 6,000 petitioners from the Dales to Teesside . |
| 3 | Even when nirvana and gibbering frenzy were in the air , these were difficult listening . |
| 4 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 5 | Version 5 however , is expected to include a facility to ‘ knit from the screen ’ , so if your computer and knitting machine are in the same room , you may find this more convenient than printing on to paper . |
| 6 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 7 | She is convinced ultimately , however , that coming to Bristol and studying English was of great benefit to her . |
| 8 | The cross-fertilisation between formulating problems and collecting data is of central importance in participant observation when the researcher spends several months ‘ in the field ’ trying to understand what is going on . |
| 9 | But it is perhaps in the attempts of Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century that the origins of a concern with social features of knowledge as introducing distortions are to be found . |
| 10 | 6.1 The selection of learning and teaching approaches is of central importance in PSD modules . |
| 11 | In 1978 , 69.5 per cent of the one million jobs of the nationalized manufacturing and mining concerns were in the North , many in large , male-employing urban establishments . |
| 12 | Playing the piano is as easy for Cziffra as playing tiddly-winks is for you and me . |
| 13 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
| 14 | POLICE need more resources and greater support from the criminal justice system if rising crime is to be tackled effectively , Cleveland 's chief constable said yesterday . |
| 15 | It is likely that many if not most of the elaborately carved wine cups of Ming and Qing date were in fact made of horn imported from Africa . |
| 16 | Transparent glass is no more a part of a bee 's mind set than mimicking orchids are to those of a wasp . |