Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Main users of AlphaWindows terminals are expected to be the mid-ranking clerical and administration staff of organisations who have several tasks they need to perform using different applications . |
| 2 | Owen could think of lots of people he would prefer to see handling this particular case . |
| 3 | In her 20 year career , Louise has been known by both her single and married names so needs to continue using both . |
| 4 | The change is the result of the 1989 Water Act which privatised the water industry and make it illegal for water companies to continue using ratable value as the basis for charging for water after March 2000 . |
| 5 | This will enable it to continue using British coal , which has a relatively high sulphur content , while meeting EC standards on sulphur emissions . |
| 6 | Partly-exempt businesses , which previously used the value of taxable ( including zero-rated ) and exempt supplies to determine input tax recovery , are allowed to continue using those calculations by including the value of outside-the-scope supplies with the right to input tax recovery in the value of taxable supplies , and including the value of outside-the-scope supplies without the right to input tax recovery in the value of exempt supplies . |
| 7 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 8 | That would both worsen the recession already under way in America and , by forcing inflation higher , make it harder for the Federal Reserve to continue easing monetary policy . |
| 9 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 10 | 3 ) Or , by encashing units , you may draw a tax-free income , leaving the balance of your fund to continue accumulating tax-free . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't want to go wasting that on a taxi . |
| 12 | The State is allowed to continue subsidising unprofitable farming and forestry , because that keeps old pals and supporters happy ; but too many conservationists have an unfortunate leaning towards the radical . |
| 13 | The ministers amended the terms of the ASEAN industrial joint-venture ( AIJV ) plan to include allowing non-ASEAN investors to hold up to 60 per cent of equity . |
| 14 | Attempt to connect using invalid CL_MODE |
| 15 | There are other ways to enjoy using dental dams during safer sex . |
| 16 | But the politicians have also seen research in the arts , social and natural sciences , as a vital part of national development : the government has been a generous sponsor of research , partly to underpin West Germany 's thriving high technology industries , and partly to continue rebuilding intellectual life after its almost total dissolution in the 1930s . |
| 17 | Unlike me , he seemed to enjoy appearing foolish , thinking he had become a new , open person . |
| 18 | Many who belonged to the GLC traditions could see no reason to trust any institution of the local state , or to risk becoming dependent on it ; they argued that independent self-organization was the only way to effect changes in our lives . |
| 19 | If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus , however , you might see why I came to those conclusions . |
| 20 | Interestingly , chimpanzees have been taught to communicate using some basic signs from American Sign Language — a language of gesture and facial expression , both used naturally by chimps living in the wild . |
| 21 | Chimps , whose vocal chords are not well adapted to human speech , have discovered how to communicate using deaf-and-dumb language ; again , this is an incredible achievement . |
| 22 | They were encouraged by the appointment in October 1940 of Sir John Reith as the head of the new Ministry of Works , not only to supervise repairing bomb-damaged buildings but also to consult other departments and organisations about the post-war rebuilding of cities . |
| 23 | It is for this reason that we allow a whole week to try eating each group of foods . |
| 24 | Some museum loan services may offer examples of such things as writing slates and slate pencils or steel-nibbed pens and old inkwells and sample pages from old copybooks , to allow pupils to try using these old writing materials . |
| 25 | Pentos , he said on 31st December , was unlikely to find bookselling any easier than it was finding the difficult Athena and office furniture markets . |
| 26 | ‘ I belong to the Duke of Gloucester Trust and eventually I persuaded the officials to try fitting one of my whistles . |
| 27 | Allen went carefully to work testing each possible place . |
| 28 | Some of these cloths will be interlines and it might be a good notion to try adding some of the iron-on lining to the wrong side while you are pressing . |
| 29 | But it was n't uncommon for clients to stand waiting all night . |
| 30 | Once you have used the gun , it can be left to stand facing upwards thanks to a sprung metal supporting clip on the base of the handle . |