Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun pl] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remembering the words of Nehemiah the prophet : |
| 2 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 3 | What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) . |
| 4 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 5 | He was one of the greatest physicists there has ever been ; we have already met his work on gases , with its statistical basis , but his most important research was that in which he took up Faraday 's discoveries , giving the lines of force a mathematical expression . |
| 6 | The third is the one that we are providing — giving the governors of schools the choice of teams of inspectors , who will be up to the standards required by HMI at the centre . |
| 7 | Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R . |
| 8 | By anticipating the kinds of proposals the buyer is likely to make , the seller can plan the kinds of counter-proposals he wishes to make . |