Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thing had the odd appearance of a brick-built Mississippi steamboat beached and panting to get back to the lake . |
| 2 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 3 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 4 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 5 | From now on it will refer to products validated as working with all Sparc-compliant hardware and software , not just Sun . |
| 6 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 7 | As anti-pylons campaigners grilled the National Grid during the second week of the Northallerton hearing , an expert witness agreed that burying cables would eliminate the field . |
| 8 | Belatedly , Manville realized that going in cold , straight to the top , had been a serious tactical error . |
| 9 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 10 | Many times during the past evening he had returned to her , in ludicrous , colourful , brightly painted effigy , all his embarrassments clustered and clanging round him , all his mannerisms protruding , projected , enhanced : the sharp red nose , the usually broken bifocal spectacles , the striped woolly lunch-spattered waistcoats , the bald shining brown freckled Professor Branestawm brow , the pockets full of string , the green socks and brown sandals , the little pedantries , the favourite quotations , the antiquarian commentary , the hydrometer , the tufts of hair in his ears , the batty , potty , dotty , hurt , persistent grin . |
| 11 | Ironically , bearing in mind the casualty statistics of rear gunners , ‘ Jacko ’ was the sole survivor of the crew — perhaps because the aircraft crashed while flying too low over enemy territory . |
| 12 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 13 | The Freight Transport Association claimed that raising the weight limit to 44 tonnes for all vehicles would have taken more heavy lorries off the road , reduced carbon dioxide emissions and saved the road haulage industry millions of pounds . |
| 14 | Finally an interesting result of research showed that feeding carp neat amino acids could reduce growth and see amino acids excreted . |
| 15 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 16 | In a recent study a group of exporters indicated that financing their export activities , which included managing cash-flow as well as managing exchange rate fluctuations , was their most difficult task . |
| 17 | The Association warned that rectifying mistakes could be frustrating . |
| 18 | It 's so difficult and frustrating for parents and one feels so isolated , and one needs to discuss these problems with other parents and the parents working together , of course , could do so much in erm getting units started and getting people to understand this problem . |
| 19 | Of these only the CLC ( Cheshire Lines Extension Railway ) and LYR Derby Road sheds survived as working depots into the 20th Century , although until the 1980's , the WLR shed existed as a workshop by the Windsor Road/Hampton Road footbridge . |
| 20 | In a solid South Bank Show ( LWT ) on Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton swore while describing his feelings when the guitarist died . |
| 21 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 22 | According to director of corporate communications Keith Luckton , GRE felt that issuing an interim report clearly labelled unaudited did not fully inform shareholders of the work done by the auditors during the year . |
| 23 | Bailey 's Jamaican informants did when providing her with examples of JC for her book , Jamaican Creole Syntax ( 1966 ) . |
| 24 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 25 | Anton Chekhov said that reading a short story ‘ feels rather like swallowing a glass of vodka ’ . |
| 26 | Instead of , instead of giving the emphasis to er what Freud said and trying to rather hurriedly , and as it turned out , too hurriedly , er fill in as it were the , the background from the point of view of modern er modern understanding of the evolution of sex . |
| 27 | The Central Electricity Generating Board estimated that achieving a 20 per cent cut through switching from coal to nuclear , gas and oil would require an additional capital expenditure of £12 billion . |
| 28 | Although conservatives argued that visiting the shrine — particularly on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War — was a legitimate means of paying respect to the dead , others interpreted it as paying homage to an outdated militarist philosophy and its discredited adherents . |
| 29 | The Educational Institute of Scotland argued that introducing the policy nationally should be postponed until the future shape of local government was decided . |
| 30 | Flettner argued that rotating cylinders on the deck of a ship should replace sails in favourable wind conditions and bring great advantages in handling . |