Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing to be gained by attempting to force parents into accepting definitions of problems which they do not recognise as important or relevant , despite what you as a professional may think . |
| 2 | The project will examine picture naming times under conditions which vary the relations between consecutive pictures ( changing size , orientation etc ) . |
| 3 | Last week the BBC reported that Kenyan police at Liboi , on the border with Somalia , were forcibly returning refugees from Somalia who arrived three weeks ago . |
| 4 | Controlling ammonia emissions and ending tax-breaks for commuters who drive their cars to work are not usually the kind of issues which sends voters raging into the polling booths . |
| 5 | Many European houses are anyway more used to peddling bonds to investors whose main interest is price , than equities to investors who must be convinced about the health and prospects of a specific company . |
| 6 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 7 | What I have in mind are portfolios or fascicles of data and tasks representing modules of enquiry which deal with issues of current pedagogic concern in a format which , being based on the pragmatic model that I have proposed , draws the teacher into the appraisal and application of ideas . |
| 8 | It is from this perspective that it becomes possible to understand the basis of the distrust of totalizing systems of knowledge which depend upon theory and concepts , so characteristic of Foucault or Lyotard , both of whom have been predominantly concerned with the attempt to isolate and foreground singularity as opposed to universality . |
| 9 | However , they believe there could be some hope of recovering lines of credit which were extended by International Signal and Control to a number of European intermediaries . |
| 10 | A corollary to the restricted data approach found in much of Chomskyan linguistics is the importance placed on writing rules of grammar which are fixed and true 100% of the time . |
| 11 | In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him . |
| 12 | I am writing in reply to your letter of 30 June 1993 to our Director enclosing copies of leaflets you have recently produced . |
| 13 | So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be . |
| 14 | However , one can say that a logically inconsistent set of attitudes bears the inevitable seeds of emotional disharmony within the individual and is likely to make effective action impossible by promoting patterns of behaviour which prevent each others ' successful issue . |
| 15 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 16 | Many employers follow traditional lines by filling posts with staff who have experience of the particular work . |
| 17 | Or the curious dentelle de cire or literally ‘ wax lace ’ : mourning candles resembling strings of pasta which could be wound tightly into packages or else extended and draped . |
| 18 | He laughed with other actors , was outrageous in restaurants , shouting orders to waiters who could never be sure if he was being serious or playing another part . |
| 19 | The lieutenant was standing on Tower Green , shouting orders at workmen who were refurbishing mangonels , scorpions and the great battering rams . |
| 20 | The intention is to present an empirical account of what things are like and how they got there before addressing bodies of theory which might help in understanding . |
| 21 | The locals are men and women , generally older , their bloated flesh spilling histories of things I do not know . |
| 22 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 23 | The British government 's programme for the development of renewable energy has been massively oversubscribed , with developers submitting applications for projects which would generate electricity well in excess of the government 's target . |
| 24 | In America in particular lawyers were accepting protests from stars who claimed their image was ‘ intellectual property ’ which should only be reproduced with their permission . |
| 25 | By eluting self-peptides from HLA-B53 we identified a sequence motif for bound peptides and have synthesized 60 octamer , nonamer or decamer peptides bearing this motif from the four pre-erythrocytic-stage P. falciparum antigens that have been cloned and sequenced : each of these antigens has been used in or is currently awaiting human vaccine trials . |
| 26 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 27 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 28 | This involves presenting subjects with sentences which are accompanied by bursts of noise — ‘ clicks ’ — and asking the subjects to report the apparent location of the noise . |
| 29 | Saturday morning pictures provided confirming images of women who not only worked hard , earned a living , but who carried a gun into the bargain . |
| 30 | Exquisitely carved wooden animals , birds , masks , flowers , and hanging mobiles , twinkled in the sunlight , enticing visitors into doorways which led into shops resembling Aladdin 's caves . |