Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Within a few weeks of his appointment the new Metropolitan was urging , in an interview with Romania Libera , that religion be taught in schools and announcing that a Synod-appointed commission would select the basic religious concepts to be taught in primary , junior and senior schools .
2 Cos they did n't thunk too much beyond rumbles and scavvying and the scarring ceremonies and maybe a squirm together when they got high .
3 On Jan. 31 , 1990 , the Financial Times reported West German officials as saying that the recent trade liberalization moves by the USA did not go far enough .
4 I do not read these passages as stating that an unlawful demand which is enforceable is per se sufficient to found recovery .
5 However , Asharq Alawsat quoted Moscow sources as saying that the Soviet Union was no longer in a position to supply large amounts of weapons to developing countries " because of changed international circumstances and the weakness of the Soviet economy " .
6 We therefore interpret the isotope data for these two regions as indicating that the high U/Pb ratios of the lavas are also features of the source , with the age of U/Pb fractionation being comparable to the age of the lithosphere .
7 Western trade and investment there were rapidly growing ; but the duties of western diplomats in Pekin remained essentially those of fostering these economic interests and seeing that no imperial power stole a march on its rivals in this respect .
8 Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles .
9 Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) interpreted their results as implying that the pre-exposure procedure and the conditioning procedure establish independent memories and the ability of the former to interfere with retrieval of the latter declines over the retention interval .
10 teachers who were prepared to discuss the GIST problem with children , rather than simply accepting VISTA and other interventions and hoping that an implicit message would get through ;
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