Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women have difficulty organizing because of the isolation they experience in the home , combined with their socialization into passivity . |
| 2 | The light supplementing that from the small portholes came from a central paraffin lantern . |
| 3 | At the garage there is MICRO CHIP WHEEL BALANCING and at the bookshop MICRO FICHE book information . |
| 4 | Kelly is perfectly good at right back , and with him , newsome and Speed playing or on the bench , we have a team for all eventualities . |
| 5 | A local council spokesman said the council had declared war on large-scale home catering because of the outbreak . |
| 6 | The first compared face-to-face interviewing both with telephone interviewing and with a mixed-mode approach . |
| 7 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 8 | At the close of hostilities that evening A.H.Q. Malta issued a communique stating that since the beginning of the fighting over the island , Malta 's defences had been credited with 132 destroyed , 44 probably destroyed and 58 damaged for the loss of 29 fighters , ten of the pilots having been saved . |
| 9 | I hope that I have redressed the balance regarding the usual effect of freeze branding and by the way I do n't have a financial interest in either system so my view is unbiased . |
| 10 | This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available . |
| 11 | Then the hard body overpowered her completely , thrusting into her , hands biting into her hips as she sprawled beneath him , her mouth slack and her eyes dazed , and as he looked down and saw the expression on her face he began to groan louder with pleasure , whispering incoherent words in a ragged , dehumanised voice , devastating her with the absolute possession he took , sliding his hands under her rear , his face contorting barbarically as he went into a violent climax in a series of deep , fast thrusts and jerked against her with a fierce cry , his body shaking as with the spontaneous release of an electric current . |
| 12 | Outside public sector employment , which offers transferable pension rights , occupational pension benefits are maximised by minimal job changing or by an ability to compensate for any loss of pension rights on job change through a better remunerated new job . |
| 13 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 14 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 15 | He 's badly bruised and has difficulty moving because of the stab wound to his back . |
| 16 | William Ellis , a former agent of the Free Labour Association , contested the truth of statements made by William Collison , " The Apostle of Free Labour " , both on the number of workmen available for strike breaking and on the number of " pitched battles with aggressive trade unions " which the Association had fought . |
| 17 | Sunday Telegraph investigations uncovered a series of pertinent facts relating to the Asvat killing and to the crisis in the ANC , whose leaders have ordered officials to retreat behind a laager of silence and denials . |
| 18 | ‘ You might have trouble explaining that at the inquest , my lad . ’ |
| 19 | I listened to a woman executive on the radio the other morning explaining as to an idiot audience that the abolition of the wages councils was long overdue since workers could n't keep on pricing themselves out of the labour market . |
| 20 | A source close to Mr Vance and Lord Owen said Mr Izetbegovic declined to discuss any substance during the morning meeting because of the fighting . |
| 21 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 22 | The scenes-of-crime van was parked as near the site as it could get , planks had been laid on the ground approaching and under the scaffolding to preserve whatever evidence there might be , and the area where the body was had been screened off . |
| 23 | ‘ At the moment it 's very dangerous , you ca n't see traffic approaching because of the bend . |
| 24 | Today almost every country with a developed securities market has some form of controls outlawing insider dealing and with the introduction of the EC Directive on Insider Dealing every country in the EEC will be required to adopt minimum legislative prohibitions . |
| 25 | And the big thing that happens is you you suddenly in the middle of differentiating start integrating or in the middle of an integrating start differentiating or you start doing taking you 've had enough of this so you start doing little short cuts like erm differentiating sine three X just as if it was sine X |
| 26 | The notion that there exist a plurality of influences affecting the outcomes of political processes is to be found in many of the classic studies of policy-making , such as the emphasis upon bargaining in the budgetary process , on the plurality of groups involved in intra-party policy making and in the legislative process . |
| 27 | Income tax was minimal ; Marie Webster had an old demand showing that of a total of $604 only $3.90 was payable . |
| 28 | The joker , however , gives the present knowing that in the confusion as it goes off , it may be thrown the wrong way — into the face of the recipient 's partner . |
| 29 | Such is the tensile strength of individual laminations that some are seen to have been partially pulled out of the core during piston coring or by the wire during core splitting . |
| 30 | The record industry 's response to this situation was not particularly systematic but by now some trends are obvious : the average age of the pop market ( and especially the pop single-buying market ) is younger than it was ; record companies devote more attention to building big mainstream stars than to servicing a variety of musical tastes ; stars are now conceived and sold as multi-media performers ; there has been a steady decline in the significance of live music making except as a promotional device . |