Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 2 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
| 3 | Offsetting this barrier is the possibility that the costs of imitating the leaders ' original innovations can be much cheaper . |
| 4 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |
| 5 | This new sort of foundationalist , who will be considered further in chapter 6 , could escape the demands of F 2 , but only at the cost of abandoning the foundationalists ' favourite weapon , the regress argument . |
| 6 | As special deposits are compulsory , by using them the Bank can be sure of reducing the banks ' liquid assets , and they are equivalent to an open-market sale , in that they reduce the banks ' ability to increase credit ( and hence the money supply ) . |
| 7 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 8 | But what is required now is not more research , but sustainable alternatives for harvesting the oceans ' bountiful resources — methods such as squid jigging or tuna trolling which have a negligible effect on non-target species . |
| 9 | SES/objectbench currently consists of two products : a graphical modelling tool for creating OOA model and an animated simulator for examining the models ' dynamic behaviour . |
| 10 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 11 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 12 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 13 | Best performance of the day was put up by Qannaas in winning the Ladies ' Open , by 12 lengths , from course specialist Phelioff . |
| 14 | Although Mr Smith welcomed the ‘ considerable potential ’ of the register , he ruled it out as an alternative to removing the unions ' constitutional influence outright . |
| 15 | Janine Carr ( pictured below ) , from Bedhampton , receives her cheque for £200 and a Reebok footwear and clothing contract from Reebok technical advisor , Kevin Gilchrist , as her reward for winning the girls ' 16 and under section of the 15 tournament Reebok Grand Prix Grand Prix , 1991 . |
| 16 | Applied to moral considerations generally , the Kantian insight yields a new argument for excluding the parties ' moral and religious beliefs behind the veil of ignorance . |
| 17 | And we proved it by cracking the manufacturers ' secret codes . |
| 18 | The game afoot , he vented his embarrassment by scoring the Lions ' first try after 64 seconds . |
| 19 | Viruses multiply inside cells by hijacking the cells ' own molecular machinery and forcing it into the service of the viral life-cycle . |
| 20 | However , this enthusiasm to convey solutions to pupils often ends up by precluding the pupils ' own ideas and can not only be inhibiting but also take away the pupils ' enjoyment of getting there themselves . |
| 21 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 22 | Elsewhere in south-east Asia , over-use of pesticides has led to a devastating resurgence of pests by destroying the pests ' natural predators . |
| 23 | It was enough to make the Premier League aristocrats choke with apoplectic rage but Jones cheekily suggested that Alex Ferguson 's men should ease the tension gripping his club by copying the Dons ' rough 'n' tumble , get-the-beers-in approach . |