Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boots served me well in wet weather doing an admirable job in keeping my feet dry , but on some of the hotter days this year I did find that my feet got unpleasantly hot and sweaty . |
| 2 | Keeping my eyes shut , I tried to ignore the interruption . |
| 3 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 4 | She walked past Tara to where Guy Sterne still lounged on his chair , keeping her eyes level as she met his . |
| 5 | If an atom moves when the symmetry operation is applied , the three vectors representing its motions contribute zero to the trace of the transformation matrix , and hence to the character . |
| 6 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 7 | Both just have one more examination to pass before gaining their Securities Institure Diploma . |
| 8 | To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls . |
| 9 | People walking their dogs trail their evening shadows across him . |
| 10 | In addition , the company broadened its range of terminals by launching its 15″ ErgoView open display stations for the desktop market . |
| 11 | From a pocket in the case , he removes a copy of a painting of Jesus , which he holds up for me to see , widening his eyes like he used to when challenging an opponent or the press . |
| 12 | Indeed , by the time Lord Darlington had finally come round to bidding his guests rise and drink to ‘ peace and justice in Europe ’ , the level of such noises — perhaps on account of the liberal amounts of wine that had been consumed — struck me as bordering on the ill-mannered . |
| 13 | We 'll have three special reports on how child friendly we are and we 'll be announcing our Games Test winners . |
| 14 | In supposedly dog-friendly Britain , getting accommodation and keeping your pets have become regularly conflicting objectives . |
| 15 | SCO ISH Television plans to repeat June 's 1-for-1 scrip issue after seeing its shares double in nine months . |
| 16 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 17 | The result is that if a Japanese firm was systematically making investments using its earnings yield as a measure of the cost of capital , it would soon be making a loss . |
| 18 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 19 | Within Scotland , the largest proportions of overseas researchers on Scottish geology are in Strathclyde and Dundee , and it may very well be that the difficulties such researchers experience in publishing their results account in part for the low productivity of these departments compared to those in other universities . |
| 20 | Within Scotland , the largest proportions of overseas researchers on Scottish geology are in Strathclyde and Dundee , and it may very well be that the difficulties such researchers experience in publishing their results account in part for the low productivity of these departments compared to those in other universities . |
| 21 | Individualism has been his secret ingredient in developing his Flannels menswear ships in Manchester , Altrincham and Leeds which , over the years , have always carried in-demand continental labels , including French names like Paraboot shoes , Jean Paul Gaultier , Closed jeans , Nikos underwear — and Chipie . |
| 22 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 23 | Since the book mostly contains figures , a few figures in describing its contents seem appropriate . |
| 24 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 25 | ‘ You have only to hop over the wall to reach them , supposing their dogs do n't get you . ’ |
| 26 | The majority of the procedures themselves and of the theoretical results describing their properties rest on certain assumptions . |
| 27 | In other words , just who do these jokers and the jerks pulling their purse-strings think they are ? |
| 28 | In other words , just who do these jokers and the jerks pulling their purse-strings think they are ? |
| 29 | While some of Rabbit 's business is done on an OEM basis , with procurers over the years having included IBM , NEC , Siemens , Motorola , Intel and McDonnell Douglas , the firm has also , until recently , been selling its products direct to end users . |
| 30 | So issuers who want to get the most for selling their shares tend to prefer book-building , even though fees are higher . |