Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to demonstrating the ease with which rats substitute one movement for another in reaching their goal he also demonstrated that cutting the nerve fibres that join the visual to the motor cortex does not interfere with associative learning , as Pavlov had predicted it would . |
| 2 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 3 | Statements in favour of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ and the ‘ freedom to publish ’ — from Milton 's Areopagitica of 1644 onwards — were , therefore , intended as replies to those who maintained that granting the press its freedom would pose threats to the stability of the state . |
| 4 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , we soon found that producing a publication of the required length , and assembling a representative group of writers , was no easy task . |
| 6 | We found that using a Western model across cultures has potential . |
| 7 | In his study of Portuguese and English versions of Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 : 6 ) found that abandoning the thematic organization of the source language , in this case Portuguese , ‘ often gives a perfectly acceptable English text ’ . |
| 8 | He also found that sitting a person inside for a period each day helped the processes of healing . |
| 9 | Researchers in Sheffield analysed the contents of several popular brands and found that giving a baby the recommended dose of eight 5ml spoons a day is equivalent to an adult drinking five tots of whisky ! |
| 10 | I found that raising the volume helped to improve the realism but I would have like more presence and crisper definition . |
| 11 | And , by extending this line of argument , he found that surrounding the flame by a wire gauze had the same cooling effect . |
| 12 | WWF found that finding a cuddly plant equivalent of the panda was difficult , so instead it focused on the value of plants to mankind , particularly medicinal plants . |
| 13 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 14 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 15 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 16 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 17 | On 8 January 1989 , at Kegworth , 47 people were killed when a British Midland 737 crashed while attempting an emergency landing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 20 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 21 | I wish to report a serious explosion that occurred when attempting the literature synthesis of bis(2-aminoethyl)ether ( Acta Chem . |
| 22 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 23 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 24 | A heavy fog had descended upon us , and we realized that finding the other two divers had to be the immediate priority . |
| 25 | As Miranda poured her coffee , she realized that checking the share price would now be her first priority every morning . |
| 26 | Then , turning to the Bukharin-Stalin argument , he agreed that recognizing the right to secede would vary according to the social transition involved . |
| 27 | She rang up her friend Kate and told her all about it and Kate agreed that telling the police would be going too far . |
| 28 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 29 | Sergei Witte , the Tsar 's minister of finance , realised that creating an industrial base for Russia had risks . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |