Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 6 interest in the Iran-contra investigation was renewed when a federal grand jury indicted Clair E. George , former chief of CIA covert operations , on 10 felony accounts accusing him of lying to and obstructing congressional and judicial investigations of the Iran-contra affair . |
| 2 | Ripa di Meana 's idea would , however , require an international treaty whereby Italy would relinquish sovereignty over the town in exchange for the other member states financing its revitalisation . |
| 3 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 4 | ‘ They view themselves as strategic transport authorities seeing what congestion problems can be solved by rail , ’ says Causebrook . |
| 5 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 6 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 7 | Some writers feel that there is much more scope for local authorities using their wide powers to charge to enhance their revenue ( Blair , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | John Saville , chairman of the J Saville Gordon parent group , said there was nothing to prevent the local authorities using their compulsory purchase powers to acquire the site if they so wished . |
| 9 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 10 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 11 | Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality , slapping it down , groaning . |
| 12 | This will take time to catch soaring turnover — up from £72million to £142million — as the group pays fees to BT and other international carriers for calls using their lines . |
| 13 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 14 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had businesses and lots of youth groups contacting me extremely interested in going out in the boat . |
| 16 | and rules touching their hair and flesh . |
| 17 | They spend up to 3,000 hours bringing what look like rusty writeoffs back to pristine condition . |
| 18 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 19 | Individual authorities overspending their allocations are likely to suffer consequent reductions in subsequent years ; indeed , those deliberately overspending supplemented allocations can be prevented from letting new contracts by ministerial order . |
| 20 | As they watched in horror , they saw flames eating their way up one of the heavy curtains . |
| 21 | Undertakings to be won from the lairds binding themselves to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . ’ |
| 22 | In Europe , trams were seen as ‘ completely classless ’ , with everyone from bank managers and labourers using them . |
| 23 | I 've spent hours and hours and MORE hours helping him to learn to read … ’ |
| 24 | Hall uses the Marxist philosopher Althusser and the social psychology of Laclau to argue that politics is not just about individuals and social groups pursuing their immediate material interests ; it is also about how they imagine and identify themselves in relation to the wider social world . |
| 25 | ( Stewart Island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight , but has a population of less than 500 souls ) Much more exciting though , is to rent a Cessna from Invercargill 's Douthland Aero Club , get CFI Chris Thompson to come along as safety pilot , and to show you which of the beaches he recommends as landing grounds , since Southern Air a little jealous of other operators using their own airfield in competition to their service . |
| 26 | Later BT pledged to stop 0898 phone operators using its videophones for sex shows . |
| 27 | For example , a Phantom may only be able to stay airborne for something like an hour and three-quarters , two hours using it 's own fuel but with a tanker there we can keep them topped virtually well , obviously until we run out of fuel and for much , much longer . |
| 28 | Clients feel that they are being overcharged for an inadequate service : they quote a high incidence of mistakes and insufficient contact with personnel handling their affairs . |
| 29 | Access problems are also emerging at Heptonstall Quarry where the bowling and social club have complained about climbers using their car park . |
| 30 | Its growth , therefore , does not come about by territorial gains , but by individuals and groups submitting their wills to that of their Heavenly King . |