Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in most cases that problem could be overcome , for example , in an appropriate case by the protector flying overseas to make the appropriate decisions and consider the appropriate proposals . |
| 2 | Tool using thus covers a broad range of activities throughout the animal kingdom , from the mindless and mechanical to the considered and imaginative . |
| 3 | As has already been stated , infrastructure spending previously constituted a large percentage of EC aid to member states . |
| 4 | Avoidance learning similarly shows a clear decrement ( e.g. Gordon , McCracken , Dess-Beech , and Mowrer 1981 ) as do certain food-rewarded discrimination tasks ( e.g. Chiszar and Spear 1969 ) . |
| 5 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 6 | Business planning also provides a rational basis for measuring performance and helps managers to work as a team . |
| 7 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 8 | Solvent flattening then produced an interpretable map . |
| 9 | Lynagh got his kicking boot working again to keep the Italian challenge going , but the best came last and it was down to Gloucester . |
| 10 | 19 Lord The Lord Ordinary having considered the Petition and proceedings , no Answers having been lodged , Nominates and Appoints to be curator bonis to designed in the Petition with the usual powers and decerns ; authorises the said after finding caution to enter on the duties of his office upon a certified copy of this interlocutor with a schedule of the curatory estate annexed thereto ; ( * Finds the expenses of this application and procedure following thereon to form a proper charge upon the curatory estate , and remits the account thereof , when lodged , to the Auditor of Court for taxation ) . |
| 11 | 19 Lord The Lord Ordinary having considered the Petition and proceedings , no Answers having been lodged , Nominates and Appoints to be curator bonis to designed in the Petition with the usual powers and decerns ; authorises the said after finding caution to enter on the duties of his office upon a certified copy of this interlocutor with a schedule of the curatory estate annexed thereto ; and that upon condition that before issue of a certified copy interlocutor of his appointment he shall lodge in the hands of the Accountant of Court a bond binding himself to lodge Accounts annually with the Accountant of Court and otherwise to conduct the affairs of the curatory estate in all respects in conformity with the laws and practice of Scotland ; to appear before the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland to answer for his conduct as curator aforesaid or in connection with any matter arising out of said curatory ; to submit himself to and prorogate the jurisdiction of the Court of Session for said purposes and to assign an address in Scotland where he may be cited , and decerns ( * Finds the expenses of this application and procedure following thereon to form a proper charge upon the curatory estate , and remits the account thereof , when lodged , to the Auditor of Court for taxation ) . |
| 12 | If being a real person implies consciously living before God , as we saw in the previous chapter , then the integrity of a man and woman living together needs the further consciousness of God in both their lives . |
| 13 | The regulation of insider dealing necessarily involves a complex assessment of the available regulatory options . |
| 14 | Gently , he nudged aside the silken folds of her robe , and brushed his mouth over the creamy expanse of her flesh , his tongue dipping lightly to taste the shadowed valley between her breasts . |
| 15 | But now , with the Government having heavily modified the MMC's recommendations so brewers have to drop the tie from only half of the outlets they own over a 2,000-pub limit , Whitbread has decided to stick with brewing . |
| 16 | We have about 140 international specialists in human gene mapping coming together to use a new data base system developed at the John Hopkins university in collaboration with people in London at the I C R F Labs and that data base will provide information on all those genes we have already identified and mapped . |
| 17 | Well , perhaps not quite ; the well qualified pilot sitting behind put the little craft through its paces . |
| 18 | In June , with eleven months still to go , he was told by his doctor that his state of nervous exhaustion was such that if he did not immediately take a week 's rest at Chequers ( which with Parliament sitting inevitably involved a public announcement ) he would not survive without collapse until the end of July . |
| 19 | But company decision making also shapes the economic context in which policy is made and hence constrains the available policy choices . |
| 20 | Phase splitting also plays a vital role in the important variable phase-shift network to be considered in a moment . |
| 21 | Fund accounting explicitly recognizes the political , economic and legal differences that exist between the services provided , and the activities carried on , within public sector organizations . |
| 22 | I asked quietly , my stomach having suddenly acquired a large ice cube . |
| 23 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 24 | STOP PRESS Manky 's Marauders have failed to umpire again for the 10th year running thereby creating a new league record . |
| 25 | The engine appears to be in good order having recently had an upper cylinder overhaul and new valves and has a very modest oil consumption . |
| 26 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |