Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vallance said the most innovative approaches to home banking using telecommunications that he had come across anywhere were the different approaches of the Bank of Scotland the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 2 | The most recent proposal is calprotectin because of L1 's calcium binding properties and its anti-microbial effects shown in vitro . |
| 3 | I was lowered from the stance to lie amongst the boulders and heather whingeing at my discomfort and misfortune as the crag was smothered by a swarm of conscientious drones climbing routes that I wanted to do . |
| 4 | Last week , for example we were looking at the mind boggling distances that we encounter when we journey across the universe . |
| 5 | He was given first-hand information on the quandary facing youngsters as they choose a career . |
| 6 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 7 | Yes it 's funny to think of hens having feelings but I suppose being cooped up like that it did affect them . |
| 8 | The shutdown yesterday by Huddersfield 's eight main minicab firms , all Asian-owned and with only a handful of non-Asian staff , followed a fatal stabbing in the most serious incident in an outbreak of violence involving drivers and their customers . |
| 9 | I go past this bloke selling papers and he shouts summat out and I got to stick my fingers in my ears , it 's so loud . |
| 10 | It is therefore very unlikely that the court would insist on an expert giving reasons where it had not been agreed beforehand that he would . |
| 11 | Clare Stevens and Mark Mascal , both members of Nottingham Cathedral Group , thumbed across seven European countries collecting signatures as they went , and raising £1,000 for Amnesty International . |
| 12 | I feel that not a enough emphasis has been put on the vows that er parents take and the responsibility the minister has in administering those vows and therefore I support er the new amendment because of this , that it offers er a form of evangelism without the risk of having the parents taking vows that they do not er that they can not keep . |
| 13 | The UK Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker , announced on Sept. 17 that the case of Judith Ward , sentenced to life imprisonment at Wakefield Crown Court in 1974 for the IRA bombing of a coach carrying soldiers and their families on the M62 motorway in Yorkshire [ see pp. 26873-74 ] , would be referred to the Court of Appeal . |
| 14 | ‘ If present trends continue , ’ Labour Party spokesman Robin Cook said , ‘ we will have fewer people at work making things than we will have really out of work and making nothing . ’ |
| 15 | Asserting that the true level of unemployment measured in the same way as it was in 1979 was four million out of work , he said : ‘ There are now only four and a half million people working in manufacturing industry in Britain , bringing us close to a new economic first — fewer people in work making things than we we will have out of work making nothing . ’ |
| 16 | Most banks leave customers in non-interest bearing accounts unless they ask to be moved . |
| 17 | Two social workers have been suspended from work following allegations that they smoked cannabis while supervising three teenagers on a holiday in Torquay . |
| 18 | This was the ugly eye sore confronting visitors as they drove into the centre of the village across the bridge over the Roogagh river . |
| 19 | Head teachers often filled them in and were asked to estimate intelligence , attainment or special abilities using tests or their own judgement . |
| 20 | Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me . |
| 21 | MPs were reluctant to pass legislation that would result in government officials inspecting homes and there was also the widespread belief that the home was perhaps the most appropriate place for women to work . |
| 22 | Due to recent staff changes the only existing senior staff who are members of the Council are Dr Ivor Davies , Director of Planning and Mr Robin Barratt , Director of National Sports Training Centres and they will now cease to attend as members . |
| 23 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 24 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 25 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ It must have been a mouse or something , ’ and the other one said , ‘ You show me a mouse wearing clothes and I 'll admit it was a mouse . ’ |
| 26 | He had broken more bones in his body riding horses that anyone she knew , yet he lived for his hunting . |
| 27 | A sample of bats is released into a darkened room containing obstacles and their ability to avoid the obstacles measured in some way . |
| 28 | The half-boiled storyline could have been poached from a hundred different games : Dizzy and Daisy were in the Enchanted Forest collecting cherries when they became hopelessly lost . |
| 29 | It also means you have real problems building relationships because you just expect to lose friends all the time . |
| 30 | In nearby Offenham they are worried they 'll lose thousands of pounds producing crops because they 'll no longer have specialist advice on their doorstep . |