Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 3 | Such transfers need to be undertaken with care to avoid damaging the fish or subjecting them to sudden temperature changes . |
| 4 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 5 | It bases the idea of obligation to law , reasons for acquiescing in or committing oneself to legal process , on the value of the ends which thus become attainable . |
| 6 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 7 | Even the DGSE might have baulked at letting them drown or shooting them in cold blood . |
| 8 | The role of the museum is to present the collection in a fresh way , both showing unfamiliar paintings and hanging them in natural light ’ . |
| 9 | It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work . |
| 11 | Then steam or boil the vegetables in a small amount of salted water , before draining and tossing them in melted butter . |
| 12 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 13 | It involved thrusting a lighted taper into little glass jars and applying them in great haste to Jean-Claude 's back , which would bubble up under them in balloons of skin . |
| 14 | All at once , Melanie was back home and swathing herself in diaphanous veiling before a mirror . |
| 15 | She had always tried to emulate Isabelle , too , in buying the best clothes she could afford , and keeping them in pristine condition , making sure she was well-groomed at all times . |
| 16 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 17 | It begins with a human circle , linked by the little fingers , swaying and chanting themselves into deep trance with the eyes closed . |
| 18 | Now , as she prepared to close the window , the robin returned , standing only inches from her hand and eyeing her with great deliberation , his tiny head cocked to one side and his bright eyes glinting in the sunshine . |
| 19 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
| 20 | The company has since made a remarkable recovery by clearing out its middle management ranks and replacing them with semi-autonomous work teams . |
| 21 | He worked frantically to help the casualties , tearing up what was left of his linen for bandages and soaking them in olive oil and wax to apply to bums . |
| 22 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |
| 23 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 24 | Mr Healy claimed that Down District Council was in danger of spending grant aid and ratepayers ' money on a high risk tourist venture and confusing it with economic development . |
| 25 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 26 | ‘ It works by cooling the liquid slag with a water jet and turning it into granulated slag . |
| 27 | Back to nursing events are not new but are a valuable means of locating nurses and interesting them in current health issues . |
| 28 | Even whilst developing the modern immaterialist notion of consciousness , the eighteenth-century empiricists and others were attacking the dignity of intellect and assimilating it to sensory activity by treating thoughts as mere images . |
| 29 | It is worth photocopying the more useful reading lists , and filing them in classified order in a pamphlet bibliography collection . |
| 30 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |