Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 2 | The Saturday Review congratulated Hall for adopting its suggestion that the War Department should be moved . |
| 3 | A few years ago , I wrote expressing my concern that the village of West Linton , Peeblesshire , had ‘ moved ’ from being 18 miles outside the GPO in Edinburgh to 16 and then to 14 miles . |
| 4 | Swallowing their dismay that the idea was , amazingly , not entirely original — an intrepid bunch had actually driven Citroens across the Sahara in 1922 — they nevertheless required little persuasion to spend Christmas and New Year far removed from Santa as could be imagined . |
| 5 | In developing his argument that the taxpayer was exploiting property assets which were only capable of use abroad Mr. Park sought to draw an analogy between letting a property which was referred to by Lord Bridge in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 , 323 , and licensing of intellectual property rights . |
| 6 | Expressing his view that the case should go on , the judge made clear that he thought Mr. Gilbert was ‘ a witness of truth and a very accurate and careful one , ’ whereas Mr. Everett was ‘ patently false . ’ |
| 7 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for expressing his approval that a statement should be made today . |
| 8 | Sir Monty himself appeared on the panel at the end of the programme , expressing his opinion that the status of engineers was an intrinsic part of the problem . |
| 9 | FERRIS J. This is an appeal by the third party , an accountant , from an order of Master Munrow made on 3 October 1991 dismissing his application that a third party notice , served upon him by the third defendant in the main action , should be struck out . |
| 10 | One final note from a pedant : a lethal misprint on page 50 has ensured that a generation of students will be informing their tutors that the Socinians were nationalists , rather than rationalists . |
| 11 | On the day the treaty was signed the Heads of Government of Egypt and Israel sent a joint letter to the President of the United States confirming their understanding that the United States would participate in all stages of the negotiation . |
| 12 | Even so , Alison winced slightly , confirming their suspicion that the uterus was tender and contracted . |
| 13 | This is how he ended an equally memorable contribution to the debate on the Maastricht Treaty on 19 December 1991 ; after restating his belief that the highest form of democracy is ‘ self-government ’ through Parliament , he concluded : |
| 14 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , he decided , slackening his pace as the distance between Dotty 's and his own breathless form increased , he must set about persuading his mother that a little kid would be very useful for keeping Tullivers ' grass down . |
| 16 | Tycho accused Ursus of stealing his idea that the sun revolved about the earth , carrying the planets with it . |
| 17 | This recently reported structure thus provides direct evidence supporting our hypothesis that the release of torsion-angle strain takes place during phosphorylation , in proceeding from the open to the closed conformation . |
| 18 | Again , courses in politics , society and economics retained priority in the task of educating for citizenship ; for the WEA ‘ it must be the acid test of the extent to which it is doing its job that the primacy should lie in these fields ’ . |
| 19 | Although they do not seem to have been familiar with the work of Saussure , Wimsatt and Brooks here might appear to be approaching his principle that the meaning of words is purely conventional and arbitrary . |
| 20 | In reaching my decision that the notice should be served I discussed the matter with the above mentioned persons . |
| 21 | The pianist due to play a concerto in public spends many hours in practising the techniques of using his instrument that the piece requires . |
| 22 | Since he has shown this sort of network to be discernible in a wide range of different kinds of poetry , and since it is hard to imagine that it could also be found in non-poetic language , there seems to be a strong prima facie case for accepting his argument that the principle of equivalence provides an objective criterion for identifying the poetic function . |
| 23 | It seems to me , racking my memory that the use classes order post dates and therefore the introduction of class B one which was the main thing in the new use classes order , the chairman tells me it was nineteen eighty eight . |
| 24 | District judge Joseph Kinneary said in making his decision that the IAAF had acted maliciously in their treatment of the athlete . |
| 25 | In making his assessment that a breach was likely to occur , the senior policeman was entitled to take into account not only the conduct of the appellants themselves , and that of the people by whom they were accompanied , but also what they had heard and seen on television and read in the newspapers about the way in which the miners ’ strike was conducted , ‘ and to exercise their common sense and judgment on that material ’ as well as what they saw with their own eyes . |
| 26 | Mr Pascall was determined to reassure the audience by reiterating his view that the framework was the answer . |
| 27 | Intel is therefore reportedly telling its OEMs that the P6 will be purposely held back from the market , despite its state of readiness , to allow them to recoup their investment in Pentium . |
| 28 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 29 | Loretta asked , rapidly adjusting her idea that the business of the girl 's suicide had damaged Puddephat 's career . |
| 30 | The ANC defended its actions , repeating its contention that the demonstration had been peaceful and that its members should be free to engage in peaceful political activity . |