Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 2 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 3 | Vatican two , in the decree on ecumenism number eight , certainly says that sharing in the sacrament should not be indiscriminate . |
| 4 | Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love . |
| 5 | Whatever the nature of the plan to receive Swegen in Essex c.991 it was certainly treacherous ; suspicion of treachery led Æthelred to order the killing of Danes in England in 1002 , and in his sermon of 1008 Wulfstan warns that plotting against the king is punishable by death . |
| 6 | MS-DOS 7 will have full 32-bit internals but no 32-bit programming interface , InformationWeek reports , because , Microsoft says , developers have taken advantage of so many 16-bit MS-DOS features that moving to a 32-bit programming interface would be virtually impossible . |
| 7 | MS-DOS 7 will have full 32-bit internals but no 32-bit programming interface , InformationWeek reports , because , Microsoft says , developers have taken advantage of so many 16-bit MS-DOS features that moving to a 32-bit programming interface would be virtually impossible . |
| 8 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 9 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 10 | But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress . |
| 11 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 12 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 13 | In any such change , there are three states that must be dealt with : ( 1 ) the present state , which is things as they are ; ( 2 ) the future state , which is what the changed condition will be ; and ( 3 ) the transitional state , which is the one that exists when evolving from the present to the future — the state during which the actual changing takes place . |
| 14 | Instead he describes a crisis which he sees as spreading throughout the entire penal system , affecting other penal disposals such as probation , community service , fines and so on . |
| 15 | Mr Cook writing on that day states that measuring from the top of the overlying humus to the bones the depth was 173 cm and the greatest depth 190 cm , the position of the bones in the deposit was as follows : The trunk was supine north-west by south-east , the skull rested tilted forward on the ribs to north-west . |
| 16 | The male does not attack it but , when mounting the tiny animal , simply performs the perfectly normal neck-bite that he employs when copulating with a female . |
| 17 | Naville also identified a series of problems with work with automated technology which he characterises as arising from a marked increase in mobility . |
| 18 | It finds that according to the dictionary definitions there is a link between ’ ate ’ and ’ fork ’ in that they both have the phrase ’ taking up ’ in common . |
| 19 | In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C . |
| 20 | An investigation is underway into how six year old Keri Blair suffered acid burns while playing on a chute . |
| 21 | We have criticised the building-up of such a huge nuclear arsenal , but my hon. Friend may have noticed that President Yeltsin is talking of reducing the number of warheads to 2,500 , which he regards as reducing to a deterrent . |
| 22 | Henry hopes that playing for the officially rehabilitated South African Test side will mean he can inspire other coloureds to break down prejudices . |
| 23 | King is currently on holiday but Mr Corfe added : ‘ John will be delighted when he hears about this because he feels that getting into the Pontins League is , in the long-term , almost as important as getting into the Premier League . ’ |
| 24 | In his footnote , John Stuart Mill objects that economising in the use of names is not the sole purpose of classification : ‘ We could not have dispensed with names to mark the points in which different individuals resemble one another : and these are class-names . ’ |
| 25 | What of sensations , perhaps the warmth one feels while sitting in a sunny window ? |
| 26 | This means that looking at the process in an ex-post fashion , the underwriters made a return of 1.11 per cent . |
| 27 | All of this means that hovering in a wind is rather easier , since the ground effect is less marked and the tail is easier to control , despite a small trim change . |
| 28 | This means that according to the choices made by the user , a particular pathway is followed through the information , with the computer drawing as required on the text , sound , still images and moving video stored on the disc . |
| 29 | But there is a big difference between controlling for a prior variable and finding that the original relationship disappears and controlling for an intervening one with a similar result . |
| 30 | For the couple made their wedding vows while floating in a balloon 600 feet above the ground in Orlando , Florida , in a sensational start to their married life . |