Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to some of the conclusions drawn from social scientific research suggesting that it is primarily home or family backgrounds that determines the level of educational performance , Edmonds proceeds to identify those characteristics of effective schools delivering marked improvements in children 's educational achievements . |
| 2 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 3 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 4 | English captain Will Carling said : ‘ They took their chances and we did n't and it 's always easier to keep the momentum going when you 're ahead . |
| 5 | English captain Will Carling said : ‘ They took their chances and we did n't and it 's always easier to keep the momentum going when you 're ahead . |
| 6 | After her death , he carried out research showing that there were only two fatal cases in the world , both in the US , directly related to the drug . |
| 7 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 8 | Under the 1984 Act , the PCA is empowered to : ( i ) choose , or veto the choice , of investigating officers , supervise their inquiries , and receive their final report ; ( ii ) monitor the speed and efficiency of the investigation and issue a statement to the Chief Constable saying whether it was satisfactorily carried out ; ( iii ) receive a Chief Constable 's decision on what action he intends to take as a result of an investigation and , if need be , overturn the decision ( either by preferring disciplinary charges or , if it believes an offence has been committed , referring the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions ) . |
| 9 | It was no longer a matter of one family or political grouping showing that it was domestically more powerful than any other . |
| 10 | There was a sniff of disapproval signifying that it was out of court for a grown man to be still in his bedroom in mid-morning , and not at a place of work . |
| 11 | In the middle of the night , Mr Jones awoke with a crashing headache and a foreboding feeling that something was decidedly wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 13 | 1784 " The Meeting considering that there is now no Charity Schoolmaster in the Parish of Kildaltan , and Therefore the four pounds yearly for said Schoolmaster falls , and the Gentlemen of the Parish of Kildaltan having represented that they wish to have a fund for Purchasing Communion Tables & furms , and that four pounds sterl. will be necessary for that purpose , … agree to stent themselves for the sd. four pounds for this year . " |
| 14 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 15 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 16 | Robert Dexter flew home with Prior last night and Carlisle Flint have gone on record saying that they are not interested in a change of team . |
| 17 | The first name on the ‘ 92 list is that of a lady who insisted on coming out in her dressing-gown to rill the boot of the car with bags of glossy paperbacks one freezing February night , and then stood on her doorstep waving till I was out of sight . |
| 18 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 19 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 20 | It is a sign of the success of this new Nimbus recording that it is far from effaced in such company , and will no doubt win this barnstorming masterwork of late-Romanticism many new friends . |
| 21 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 22 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 23 | Sporting friends of the Princess were last night predicting that she is so ‘ naffed off ’ she will resign her Olympic roles if she and her horsey friends are told they are not welcome at future Games . |
| 24 | He was left out while the first team travelled to Blackburn with speculation mounting that he was as much as 6lb too heavy . |
| 25 | From the first Emilia occupied the position of a precariously privileged dependant , and complained of ‘ hard fortune ’ , her father dying when she was only eight , leaving a ‘ miserable ’ estate . |
| 26 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby , ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby . ’ |
| 28 | Fabia ended the call realising that she was quite looking forward to stretching her legs with Azor . |
| 29 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 30 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |