Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission wished us well in our venture of acting as custodians of material , documents , etc. relating to the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 2 | The nature of this will vary greatly depending on a rose 's ancestry , while its appreciation is a very personal matter . |
| 3 | R is not helpful to talk of ‘ the manager 's ’ needs for external information and intelligence , because , clearly , those needs will differ greatly depending on the manager 's specific role : corporate treasurer , product development manager , research and development scientist , marketing executive etc. , and particularly the specific contexts in which those roles are exercised . |
| 4 | If nothing else , the Christmas editions of NME , Sounds , and Melody Maker are a barometer of hip opinion , although not so revealing as the readers ' polls which follow a couple of months later . |
| 5 | Or , jokily bobbing with the jogger 's gait . |
| 6 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 7 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 8 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 9 | She sat impatiently listening to the teacher 's drivel about the fault in the program he was about to network . |
| 10 | Not to pay at maturity , would be to say the least , extremely damaging to the bank 's credit rating and would completely destroy confidence in it . |
| 11 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
| 12 | One lady crouched under the leathery flanks of a water buffalo , gently pulling at the beast 's udders , shooting warm jets of frothy milk into a battered tin pail . |
| 13 | Having said that , the not-outrageous address file on my desktop machine was over 40K long — requiring much juggling between the Portfolio 's silicon drive and general memory . |
| 14 | His mother was in , seated at her kitchen desk and gloomily going over the month 's bills — her Persian lamb coat made the Hudson 's Bay bill look enormous , and , at the rate she was paying it off , it would take until next Easter to clear it . |
| 15 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 16 | In fact , better finishing from the Den 's Park outfit would have increased Rangers ' embarrassment but they were let of the hook on a number of occasions , particularly by Dodds . |
| 17 | Thus , when the police officer comes to make his decision he must do so knowing of the defendant 's preference and any reason the defendant may have given for it . |
| 18 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 19 | There were also two French anthropologists , a raggedly effete group of Dutch and American missionaries , from opposing Christian denominations politely vying for the Toraja 's attentions , and the splendid Werner Meyer , looking like the Cheshire Cat in safari costume . |
| 20 | Well you can start by not depending on the structure er er the structure of which Susan 's speaking |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 22 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 23 | Second , it is clear from the Report that motorists are not keeping to the Park 's speed limits and are thereby abusing the privilege of vehicle access . |
| 24 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 25 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 26 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 27 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 28 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
| 29 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 30 | ‘ With any breed , there 's going to be a rotten apple in the barrel , but it 's stupid people not acting in the dog 's best interest . |