Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The democratic aspiration in its classical form is doomed — an outcome which is viewed with either glee or regret according to the political orientation of the theorists concerned . |
| 2 | The following description of Consideration was given by the Exchequer Chamber in 1875 : ‘ A valuable consideration , in the sense of the law , may consist either in some right , interest , profit , or benefit accruing to the one party , or some forbearance , detriment , loss , or responsibility , given , suffered , or undertaken by the other ’ : Currie v. Misa ( 1875 ) L.R. 10 Ex. at 162 . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the required energy coupling capacitors cause problems and can be expensive at higher current levels , and there does not seem to be any proof that there is a volume , weight , or cost saving over the standard Buck topology for any given equivalent performance level . |
| 4 | ( b ) There is no fact or matter concerning the proposed business or affairs of the Company nor any fact or matter relating to the financial forecasts which is or may be material for disclosure to any intending subscriber for shares in the Company which has not been disclosed to the Investors and any such fact or matter arising prior to Completion of this agreement will forthwith be disclosed to the Investors . |
| 5 | However , as we said earlier , this stock may expand or contract depending upon the net flow of newly issued bills . |
| 6 | Another property of curved spaces is that two nearby and initially parallel geodesics do not continue parallel indefinitely , but converge or diverge depending on the local curvature . |
| 7 | There is no obvious mountain pass or trail leading to the immediate area of the Castle , since Felsbrockenberg has been deserted for some 80 years . |
| 8 | For short curtains , use braids to edge the sides or sew fringing along the inside edges of full-length curtains to add a touch of grandeur . |
| 9 | Its effect may produce dispersal rather than crowding according to the characteristic response repertoire of the species . |
| 10 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
| 11 | The studies with tyr T and ptyr 2 DNA suggest that actinomycin dissociates from each of its GC binding sites with rates that vary according to the surrounding sequences . |
| 12 | Whatever the reason , it 's certainly all my female friends that stand gazing into the black puddles with me . |
| 13 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited China on Dec. 17-19 ( returning earlier than scheduled owing to the political situation in Russia — see p. 39223 ) . |
| 14 | And that meant going to the local airfield . |
| 15 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 16 | Despite occasional lapses ( like the 100kg of highly enriched uranium that went missing in the early 1960s from a factory in Pennsylvania ) the system has not failed catastrophically . |
| 17 | The second level of discourse is constituted less formally in social and psychological practices that facilitate living within the formal system , including ways of breaking the formal rules . |
| 18 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 19 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 20 | The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage . |
| 21 | At the same time , the video head drum , which rotates 1500 times a minute , stops dead and starts spinning at the same speed in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 23 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 24 | With the full backs pushing up , and wallace/Ndlove moving around the front line … looking for balls down the channel/getting crosses in , and at the same time one of them looking for Deane flicks etc . |
| 25 | The electricity generated in this new hydro-electric scheme will be sold to the National Grid ; power to service the site and to provide floodlighting for the spectacular gorge and falls will also be produced by what will be one of the largest electricity-generating waterwheels in Europe . |
| 26 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 27 | Prior to naming the polymer , the CRU is oriented and named according to the established principles or organic nomenclature for naming bivalent and multivalent groups . |
| 28 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 29 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 30 | She could see Stephen , his back to her , placing food on the barbecue , and smoke curling into the clear air . |