Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could even make a case for delaying it until the Club celebrates its Centenary Year 20 years hence . |
| 2 | Pride that demanded she ask Naylor Massingham for a better reason for sacking her than the fact that his cousin was making himself ill over her . |
| 3 | Together these produce a powerful effect , and , after reviewing them and the way they work , it becomes very much less surprising that the semantic essence of syntactic constructions has proved so elusive in the past . |
| 4 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 5 | Typical criteria , methods of applying them and the influence of financial analysis methods on ranking order are discussed . |
| 6 | Typical criteria , methods of applying them and the influence of financial analysis methods on ranking order are discussed . |
| 7 | They are not as swift as cheetah and have to get considerably closer , usually to within twenty yards of their target , if they are to have a reasonable chance of overtaking it when the race begins . |
| 8 | She was so sure that time would change Lucy 's fear of loving her that every unanswered poem spurred her on to something finer . |
| 9 | In addition , there are all the practical difficulties as to the accessibility of Parliamentary material , the cost of researching it and the use of court time in analysing it , which are good reasons for maintaining the rule . |
| 10 | In each case , MI5 alleged that those who had reported such stories were either mentally unbalanced , or seeking publicity , which was a convenient way of denigrating them and the tales . |
| 11 | As a means of assuring us that the management of large public companies do not wield arbitrary power it is unsatisfactory . |
| 12 | If you need to satisfy you annalistic impulses to close the bin , you know to , to fondle the rings , er , you can close it by pushing the rings together , that 's actually a more efficient way of doing it than the triggers , but please always open with the triggers . |
| 13 | John Nott said that the nuclear submarine Dreadnought was going to be scrapped as soon as anyone could think of a way of doing it and the US and USSR declined to consider each other 's plans for nuclear disarmament . |
| 14 | There are obvious problems with this approach : there is no common definition as to the components of these qualities , there is no reliable method of identifying them and a list of qualities may well include contradictory elements . |
| 15 | I and Vicki we do n't really like caramels because of chewing them and every one we |
| 16 | Short of telling her that the Morton and |
| 17 | She thought of telling him that a note from their landlady , contemplating the disappearance of her husband forever , had gone , vanished , and just who , did he think , was likely to have taken it ? |
| 18 | The advantage of following it and the fact that costs will not always be awarded to the respondent in any event under Ord 62 , r6(9) is illustrated by Jacobs v Wessex RHA and Hall v Wandsworth HA above . |
| 19 | Economics provided the calculus for measuring it and the rules for its satisfactory regulation . |
| 20 | Even so , she felt extremely uncomfortable about facing him while the details were so clear in her mind . |
| 21 | But while England and , for that matter , Scotland , are being stampeded into adopting them before the ink on the bill is even dry , there is a definite lack of urgency west of Offa 's Dyke . |
| 22 | In between doing you and the dentist , I was fitting in Mrs , she 's Sharon 's mum . |
| 23 | It is not just a great city ; it is , or rather was , a great port and shipbuilding city , and that matters in understanding it and the places which are like it . |
| 24 | Since the companies set the price , they determined both the amount of profit per bbl from extracting it and the amount of tax the ‘ host government ’ could levy on the process . |
| 25 | in effect what you 're doing is helping us out with the cost that we incurred in getting it and the help that we 've done you . |
| 26 | The people who moved the instruments each day to the studio had a vested interest in persuading us that the Philharmonie was no good ; people even said privately that the change must be resisted at all costs because the coffee was so much better at the church ! |
| 27 | What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ? |
| 28 | When she was allowed out of bed the nurses ( who presumably had not received the instruction ) no longer assisted in washing her and the patient said that she would be glad to get home so that her legs and feet could be washed . |
| 29 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 30 | The flat rate addition will be expressed as a percentage but , as the formula for calculating it and the figure itself have yet to be agreed with the European Commission , the amount of the addition has not been announced . |