Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Re-investigation might show liability attaching and avoid unnecessary Court actions being raised . |
2 | In the subsequent quarter there will be a further adjustment with the forward looking and lagged return terms reducing the desired stock , the former because the 1% rise is expected to be reversed and the latter because the past rise generates a portfolio adjustment effect . |
3 | In short , unemployment must be considered as the primary agent causing and maintaining urban deprivation . |
4 | The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) . |
5 | Moses Mossop was regularly at work making and mending wooden barrels . |
6 | You will join the group developing and implementing ground-based speech and data-communication computing networks . |
7 | And he can see the high-scoring theme continuing and burying defensive reputations . |
8 | This summer come Post Trail Riding and discover excellent riding on the drovers ' trails and bridle paths of Britain 's Big Country Northumbria . |
9 | The Government is also committed to new road safety measures , including raising penalties for drink driving and installing more cameras at dangerous road junctions to film those passing through red lights . |
10 | As one of the United Kingdom 's leading institutions of Higher Education employing and educating considerable numbers of technicians , engineers and scientists , we naturally have to plan for our future , which includes ensuring that there will be adequate supplies of well educated technical and scientific employees in the years to come . |
11 | What , what he 's , what he 's had to say is , is , is to , is to get the ball rolling and get some money , and then we can start looking . |
12 | A. human bone from Turkey buried in alkaline soil with scrub oak vegetation , showing extensive root marks that have coalesced to give an appearance of surface corrosion ; B. sheep bone from stream ( pH 5.4 ) in Wales showing the result of long term immersion in water , with breakdown of the surface structure of the bone and formation of large scale pitting ; C. bovid bone from Tanzania which was buried in the floor of a hyaena den and subjected to trampling and decay from urine and organic acids , destructuring the surface leaving large scale pits and occasional islands of unaltered surface bone ; D. horse bone from Sphagnum bog in Dartmoor ( pH 3.5 ) showing acid etching of the bone producing pitting following and enlarging original structures in the bone . |
13 | Today , however , when she glanced up and saw two men high above her on a jig smiling and nudging each other , she simply fled back to the sanctuary of her office . |
14 | Then I saw a barrel glinting and realized two soldiers were creeping towards me . |
15 | Murder in Mind explored the technique of offender profiling and featured filmed interviews with serial killers across the world , including Denis Nilsen . |
16 | The government published on June 30 , 1989 , the Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Bill , the principal purpose of which was to tighten definitions of the practice of insider dealing and to introduce new penalties . |
17 | B. Some great industrialists and business people in Sheffield in the last century developed special skills in steel making and made huge profits which provided the capital for larger works . |
18 | Bleeding pseudoaneurysms may be life threatening and require early diagnosis and radical treatment . |
19 | A general module which allows the student to build on basic skills in group music making and take some responsibility in rehearsal routines . |
20 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
21 | Any criminology which did not devote considerable effort explaining and publicizing corporate crime would , in his view , have failed in its scientific duty . |
22 | These were copies of messages sent and received by the liner and other ships in the area and include the dramatic ‘ Ship sinking and wants immediate assistance ’ . |
23 | AFTER Monday night 's good performance against league leaders Ruislip Manor , which resulted in a draw , Witham kept their good form going and won another point , this time against second-placed Chertsey . |
24 | ‘ I heard glass breaking and saw three people heading for the door , ’ said 37-year-old Dean , a modern art lover . |
25 | A tube of Zovirax , which you can get from your doctor or dentist stops the virus dividing and makes each attack less painful until they die out . |
26 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
27 | The Director of another company estimated savings of £2m in the first year after Effective Negotiating Seminars for their sales and purchasing staff , whilst the owner of a small company buying and selling industrial units in Europe identified a saving of over £800,000 in his next negotiation . |
28 | The original stones of the sloping gable coping had simply been bedded on the slate-roof covering of the aisles at their verges so that rain entering the joints between the coping stones had saturated the top courses of the stone facing and caused premature decay . |
29 | The number of false positives ( FP ) generated by grid referencing and requiring subsequent PCR is a function of the number of true positives ( P ) , and of the distribution of those positives , but will maximally increase according to the equation FP=PP , meaning that the overall screening load increases at a rate 2n+3+ ( PP ) , and the screening multiple by n/2n+3+ ( PP ) . |
30 | The great thing is to spend time experimenting and trying different things . |