Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also remained a source of controversy among the Canadian electorate , its supporters maintaining that it was essential for competing with the world 's other large trading blocs , while its opponents blamed it for Canada 's current economic malaise . |
| 2 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it has been wonderful , querida , ’ he agreed quietly , his eyes softening till they were almost hazel in shade . |
| 4 | Crabs that live in areas where empty shells are scarce select relatively large shells when given a free choice , compared with crabs living where there is an abundance of empty shells . |
| 5 | There must be as many actual parameters passing as there are formal parameters declared in the definition . |
| 6 | Linfield 's new strip has caused some controversy with certain fans complaining that there is n't enough ‘ blue ’ in it ; Lotto are planning a darker hue for next season . |
| 7 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 8 | A couple of years ago he wrote to several of our authors saying that he was dying , their work meant a lot to him , could they write something for him . |
| 9 | When she had finished and was stirring a saccharine tablet into her coffee , he sat silent for a while , his little eyes half closed , his pursed lips showing that he was thinking hard . |
| 10 | The building was a popular place for children to play despite signs warning that it was dangerous . |
| 11 | I spent hours looking when I was a kid . ’ |
| 12 | These constitute the most systematic national approaches to social service personnel training that we were able to find . |
| 13 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 14 | The term ‘ poise ’ is difficult to define — it is the self-discipline that enables you to appear serenely dignified when your head is throbbing , your feet aching and you are confronted with an irate guest full of complaints . |
| 15 | ‘ If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money , which he is not in law bound to pay , and in circumstances implying that he is paying it voluntarily to close the transaction , he can not recover it . |
| 16 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 17 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 18 | And I 'm also pleased to see most seed companies acknowledging that they are revivals ; in the past they have often tried to pretend that these reintroductions were stunning new breakthroughs . |
| 19 | If anything , studies suggest the opposite : children and young adults with crude fantasies of aggression have been found to be more openly aggressive in their behaviour than those whose aggressive fantasies are muted or contain elements indicating that they are as concerned with the dangerous consequences of their aggression as they are with the aggression itself . |
| 20 | However , the -55bp promoter is not expressed in transgenic mice indicating that there are no downstream elements capable of driving minimal expression . |
| 21 | However , according to Robin Hay , the divisional managing director , the story does not end there : ‘ Our market place in the provinces of England is huge , with many blue chip companies demonstrating that they are keen to do business with us . ’ |
| 22 | Any party , including the child , may be excluded from a directions hearing if they are legally represented and their absence is desirable in the child 's interests in view of the matters to be discussed ( FPCR , r16(2) ; FPR , r4.16(2) ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Petr suffered with his parents divorcing when he was 13 , ’ says Zednick . |
| 24 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 25 | It was a cruise ship , and most of the 937 passengers booked on its transatlantic voyage carried visas confirming that they were ‘ tourists , travelling for pleasure ’ . |
| 26 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 27 | My Warwick is currently being serviced by a luthier in Holbury who tells me that the truss rod needs replacing because it is beginning to shear . |
| 28 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 29 | Seven editors rejected it despite several reviewers indicating that it was well written . |
| 30 | Both companies issued statements saying that there was no conclusive evidence that television could affect behaviour in the manner suggested , but Mrs Whitehouse has still claimed that the coverage in the following days had been considerably transformed , using ‘ stills ’ rather than action sequences , and long shots rather than close-ups . |