Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a study undertaken by Michael Roe of the University of Plymouth following recognition in commercial circles in Western Europe that Eastern European states were operating unfair practices in the administration , a particular concern of EC member states of the effects on their own hauliers . |
| 2 | When they realised that our combined ages was nudging 150 years , one wag said that if he reached our age he would settle for soloing over a stile ! |
| 3 | Many European cities , many European cities are making great efforts , Strasbourg , Brussels , Barcelona , leading cities within Europe . |
| 4 | Apart from increasing our understanding of normal colonic motility patterns , prolonged recordings are providing useful information about different pathological conditions . |
| 5 | Many private schools were offering easy payment terms and accepting credit cards . |
| 6 | He said the radial trucked cars were causing excessive wear on the junction and curves at the ‘ Robin Hood ’ . |
| 7 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 8 | This is why collections by the provisionals in public houses were having partial success in the 1970s without too much interference by the Garda , the Republic 's police force . |
| 9 | The last-minute outbidding by opportunist builders is costing ordinary buyers a small fortune in lost fees . |
| 10 | Although day-care programmes are gaining increasing recognition , most patients who are moderately or severely ill are still admitted to hospital . |
| 11 | They believed that high levels of government spending were pre-empting resources that could have been used more productively in the private sector , that high taxes were stifling private enterprise , and that the abolition of the complex system of government regulations , interventions , and subsidies would unleash a new wave of private initiative and energy . |
| 12 | Richard Agutter , head of Peat 's merger and acquisition network , said the relatively low average values indicated that British companies were making cross-border deals for strategic reasons ‘ rather than going for the mega-deals ’ . |
| 13 | A SELF-support group , set up to help family and friends of compulsive gamblers is holding weekly meetings in Carnhill Resource Centre . |
| 14 | But many seals and otters are now dying on inaccessible rocks and today 's high winds are preventing any rescue attempt . |
| 15 | This follows reports that foreign companies are using dangerous pesticides in places where safety precautions are impossible , and that other companies are still promoting drugs that are banned or controlled in Europe and the US . |
| 16 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 17 | Top dealers are inviting big clients into their offices , buttering them up with expense account lunches , putting them into new ways of investment , just as a good stockbroker might . |
| 18 | The crêpey skin of her old cheeks was flying two spots of colour . |
| 19 | More residential social workers are receiving professional training but rarely specialist training on how to help change destructive behaviour and its underlying causes . |
| 20 | Serious economic and social problems are putting rural communities at risk says a report on poverty in country areas . |
| 21 | Senior ministers knew all along that British firms were supplying arms-making machinery to Saddam Hussein just before the Gulf War , a court heard . |
| 22 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 23 | DIRECT TO YOUR DESKTOP Even IBM is considering mail order , and reliable suppliers are offering rapid delivery of PCs at rock bottom prices |
| 24 | Unscrupulous businesses are milking green consumers of their currency . |
| 25 | THE draught from Microsoft 's increasingly popular Windows is giving rival software firms a crick in the neck . |
| 26 | Widowed mother 's allowance , a contributory National Insurance benefit for widows with dependent children ; 560 thousand widowed mothers were receiving widowed mother 's allowance in 1988 . |
| 27 | We were not starved of new westerns in that era when great old stars were playing aged gunfighters and movie squabbled with movie on the ideological terrain laid out by the war in Vietnam . |
| 28 | Too many different players were winning odd caps and the continuity that had been so important under Ron Greenwood seemed to be disappearing . |
| 29 | Ironically this will come about as so many other top players are complaining that touring schedules are too rough . |
| 30 | But we do ourselves no service if we neglect to ask fundamental , difficult questions about our understanding of some of the key issues , processes and terms involved ; if we ignore contradictions in our underlying discourses ; if we fail to grapple with the limitations of our assumptions about pedagogy and how subjects and subjectivities are formed ; and if we fail to notice how economic , political and cultural differentiations are undermining older fixities around the ethnic , class and political identities of the minority communities . |