Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It pains me that the public hold chemical company executives in no higher esteem than estate agents , lawyers or even sitting members of Parliament ’ . |
| 2 | Minute amounts are needed to sweeten a can of Coke and its chemistry is such that what little is consumed passes through the body ; it does not produce energising or potentially fattening calories as sugar does . |
| 3 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |
| 4 | Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8 ) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . |
| 5 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 6 | We see no scientific justification for the statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides , nor do we find any direct evidence to support the contention that naturally occurring antibodies to monosialoganglioside are pathogenic . |
| 7 | Idiomatic means more than just making sense in English . |
| 8 | Alan Milburn , who is fighting Tory MP Michael Fallon for the Darlington seat , said health ministers were insulting Northerners by claiming ‘ that artificially removing patients from waiting lists is a success story . ’ |
| 9 | Moreover it was a complex issue , rather than simply splitting opinion on party lines . |
| 10 | This could have forced us to accept fixed exchange rates for the pound , restricting industrial growth and so putting jobs at risk . |
| 11 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 12 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 13 | The committee in School G felt that the grant was sufficiently significant to focus the minds of participants , yet small enough to force animated and mutually informing debate about book use and priorities . |
| 14 | Where one particular elite ( or elite coalition ) has a stranglehold on political power , it is common to find increased governmental inertia , conservative leadership , networks of nepotism and patronage , and generally rising levels of corruption , as some observers suggested was true ofthe French Fifth Republic between 1958 and 1981 , and may still be true of contemporary Italy . |
| 15 | The Islamic Interim Afghan Government ( IIAG ) , elected from the seven Pakistan-based mujaheddin groups in February 1989 [ see p. 36449 ] , was marred by disunity and came under heavy criticism from both Afghan opposition groups and the United States government as being unrepresentative , excluding as it did representatives of the eight factions based among 2,000,000 , mainly Shia , refugees in Iran , and largely lacking representation of field commanders based inside Afghanistan . |
| 16 | Filtration should be good , but with minimal water surface movement , as Arowanas live in still and slow moving waters in South America . |
| 17 | Since it is the poet himself who is the subject , the poem comes across as a very genuine and deeply moving piece of work which regards the real feelings and fears of one who is in the process of losing his own life , rather than , as convention would have it , those of one who has lost another . |
| 18 | This creates opportunities for accountants to act as experts , preparing a report on the subject of the suit or prosecution and possibly giving evidence in court as an expert witness . |
| 19 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 20 | The new team must have some response which goes beyond tamely printing and busily marketing ream after ream of gilt-edged stock . |
| 21 | Just a willingness to be available for a few hours to suit you — within an agreed rota — to walk around the reserve helping people enjoy their visit and also avoiding problems of pressure on sensitive reserve areas . ’ |
| 22 | He was met on the platform in the early hours of the morning by Minton and Henrietta , both looking very ill and both clutching bottles of whisky . |
| 23 | This helps to ensure the smooth working of the machinery by settling issues informally and clearly establishing areas of agreement and disagreement . |
| 24 | Waiters scurry to and from their cafes and tavernas , weighed down by great trays of food and drink , tripping over cats and noisily claiming right of way over passing cars . |
| 25 | Its members maintain that Mexico 's current-account deficit — $12.5 billion in 1992 and now approaching 7% of GDP — is unsustainable . |
| 26 | The focus is placed on the user 's information needs and overall searching behaviour in order to build a conceptual framework for qualitative research on the use and evaluation of online catalogues . |
| 27 | The rain started , a few heavy drops at first and then hissing spears of water that struck her sharply on the head , on her neck , pricking through the thin stuff of her dress . |
| 28 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 29 | And Cornwell said : ‘ We keep going two or three goals down and then putting teams under pressure in the second half . |
| 30 | Experiment of speaking name aloud into machine and then finding face in image made by sound-waves . |