Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've ever wondered what Joan Didion shouts while having an orgasm , she can tell — the names of Herman Melville novels . |
| 2 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 3 | The visually handicapped pupils attending an ordinary school may be greatly helped by a physical and social environment that has been planned with some sensitivity to their special needs while retaining a challenging or ‘ normal ’ character . |
| 4 | Tunisia faces a major challenge in meeting the country 's water needs whilst preventing the destruction of wetland ecosystems . |
| 5 | The uniform group of objects that the programmer has when using an object-oriented model , also reduces the sting of the ‘ elegance and simplicity ’ argument used against the proponents of semantic data modelling . |
| 6 | This transition the train goes through is like the experience one has when watching a train embark on a voyage oneself . |
| 7 | Discretion is concerned with the element of choice that an individual has when making a decision . |
| 8 | What an observer sees , that is , the visual experience that an observer has when viewing an object , depends in part on his past experience , his knowledge and his expectations . |
| 9 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 10 | What counts as giving a reason ? |
| 11 | He pauses when asked a question . |
| 12 | The Barking stylist , who earned rave reviews when taking the WBO crown off Italian Maurizio Stecca in May , said : ‘ The only way way we are going to find out who is the true champion is when we climb in the ring together . |
| 13 | You will actually hold a policy review with your client , I E , you 're going to see them each year at least , but the policy reviews as regards the company are held to make sure there 's enough growth in the client 's funds to sustain all the charges . |
| 14 | The solitary figure in private life contrasted with the man he describes as giving a ‘ firework display ’ in public . |
| 15 | Now , however , with only a passenger service remaining , the railway has as much relevance to the life of the land through which it passes as do the aeroplanes overhead . |
| 16 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 17 | International Seacontrol is designed to help ship operators in a recession-hit marine industry who are increasingly under pressure to reduce operating costs while sustaining an acceptable level of maintenance . |
| 18 | But it is possible to reduce company car costs while increasing the employee 's perceived remuneration . |
| 19 | 16.48 The record of the continuous assessment should cover what the child has read ; the child 's reading strategies and approaches when handling a familiar text , levels of comprehension ; retrieval of information ; and the child 's reading tastes and preferences . |
| 20 | For example , the rural areas of North Yorkshire and parts of Cumbria have experienced population increases as did the area around Aberdeen during the North Sea oil boom . |
| 21 | Brooks 's may not necessarily be much better , but Spitzer 's undoubtedly attributes a more prosaic kind of meaning to the text , which he sees as expressing an ( unreconciled ) opposition between the ‘ archaeological message ’ and the ‘ aesthetic message ’ of the urn . |
| 22 | But it is this commercial work that he sees as fulfilling a far more important function — it is the means by which he is able to fund his own personal projects . |
| 23 | This is the ideology which validates decisions on what is considered valuable knowledge , leading to assumptions which Keddie sees as fostering the myth of cultural deprivation . |
| 24 | As a result of the ‘ crisis of wholeness ’ , which Erikson sees as marking the end of childhood , I was attempting to achieve a ‘ sense of inner identity ’ . |
| 25 | Providing the means therefore is a question of balance achieved by satisfying the relationship between labour and other energy forms while integrating the whole cleaning function with the rest of the operation . |
| 26 | ‘ the presumption that the inspector [ in a revenue case ] acted intra vires when giving the notice can only be displaced by evidence which can not be reconciled with the inspector having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 27 | A parser is a program which takes as input a sentence and a grammar , and which constructs such a parse tree . |
| 28 | My own data format convertor takes as input a set of digitized points and allows the user to specify the order in which the x , y coordinates are written to a disc file . |
| 29 | CBoT members with access to all or some of the listed contract markets include banks , securities firms , producers and independent traders , or locals , whom the CBoT recognises as playing a particularly important role in maintaining the liquidity of its various contract markets . |
| 30 | " An applicant who is not an individual natural person " means bodies either corporate or incorporate which the law recognises as having a separate legal persona . |