Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this example through shows that , when solving small examples by hand , it is usually easier to work with the tree rather than the function P defining it . |
| 2 | Just my plaguey heart betraying me . |
| 3 | It has been shown to thrive on a diet of soluble uranium ions converting them into solid waste and thereby making them easier to remove . |
| 4 | They have to attend enormous numbers of operations and watch experts doing it . |
| 5 | The courses consist of specially written course books taking you through a programme of work , mostly practical activity . |
| 6 | It is a bit like taking a poll of general election candidates asking them to state in public whether they think that they will win . |
| 7 | A questionnaire is being sent to all local General Election candidates asking them their views on the subject . |
| 8 | On the map it was pretty well blank space , save for the thin blue lines of creeks or marsh drains crisscrossing it . |
| 9 | But they have the grave disadvantage that they must spend almost all their waking hours eating it if they are to obtain an adequate diet . |
| 10 | She says : ‘ We all have an electric force field surrounding us — an aura — which shows up with Kirlian photography . |
| 11 | Lot six a Canton card case this the card case showing I 've got several offers I 've got to start at three hundred pounds got that in several places three hund three twenty , three fifty , eighty , four hundred I bid four hundred , four twenty , four fifty at four hundred and fifty pounds , anybody else ? |
| 12 | Will the Minister introduce in the near future proposals enabling us to have at least as many national holidays as other European countries ? |
| 13 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 14 | But Mr Garrett said others who have taken only the three-hour assessment are responding to pursuits despite force guidelines prohibiting them . |
| 15 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 16 | But the Pill is not suitable for some girls , who have a lot of problems and side effects using it . |
| 17 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 18 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 19 | It is 19 7 ft 6in wide and 43 8ft long , the roof columns dividing it into four longitudinal bays . |
| 20 | At a public inquiry in March , Mr Fenney appealed against three enforcement notices issued by Warrington Borough Council requiring him to reduce the size of the driving range . |
| 21 | Only the reflective coating of her suit had prevented the enemy weapons identifying her as a target . |
| 22 | Just before Christmas , Sir Peter Levene , the head of procurement at the MOD , sent a letter to all defence industry suppliers asking them to postpone sending invoices to the department for a month : officials needed to remedy a £400m ( $780m ) overrun on their year-to-date budget . |
| 23 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Novell chairman Ray Noorda is said to be circulating a letter among industry executives asking them to be expert witnesses in the FTC case against Microsoft . |
| 25 | This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour . |
| 26 | If the location of the sequence , or sequences , is completely unknown and requires fine mapping to a G-band ( replication bands are equivalent ) on a chromosome , the practice is to identify each chromosome and to score the position of each silver grain overlying it . |
| 27 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 28 | I was just pressing the camera shutter when someone yelled ‘ Polar bear ! ’ and there , about twenty metres away on the head of the beach , was a bear standing watching us . |
| 29 | Beyond the sitting room , a large area with an old brick fireplace set back in a spacious alcove , piles of cut logs flanking it , a narrow passage led to the kitchen and a small study . |
| 30 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |