Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise Swedish scheme , incorporating elements of both the EC and the US- " Cairns Group " proposals , failed to win support from the EC , Japan and South Korea [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 2 | Then ethnic minority elders might feel comfortable in accepting help from outside the family and community . |
| 3 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 4 | Necropsy , paying attention to both the abomasum and the marrow changes in the long bones , is also useful . |
| 5 | Poland has cut its use of ozone depleting substances to below the levels demanded by the international community in the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs 35/36 ; 59/60 ] . |
| 6 | Callhaven plc supplies two imaging systems : The Multi-user Archival and Retrieval System ( MARS ) is the only market offering providing compatibility with both the Apple Macintosh and IBM PCs . |
| 7 | Gurney , engaged in starting auxiliaries of both the Civilization Society and the BFASS in Norfolk , urged influential figures in the county to support both . |
| 8 | The pound was again shaky , losing ground against both the dollar and the German mark . |
| 9 | Erm but erm sitting in a traffic jam this morning I was very concerned to learn that taking effect from tomorrow the government is changing the grant for adaptation for severely handicapped people . |
| 10 | The issue of commodity bundling has been central to a number of celebrated competition policy cases , including those involving IBM in both the United States and Europe . |
| 11 | Moreover , since sea-floor spreading is taking place from both the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Carlsberg Ridge ( in the Indian Ocean ) , one or both of these ridges must be experiencing movement with respect to the Earth 's rotational axis . |
| 12 | Before establishing the final protocol , various tissue fixation methods were compared to investigate their influence on staining intensity for both the PCNA and the BrdU protocol . |
| 13 | Skills in handling information in both the classroom and the library — the definition of purpose , finding information and using information — should also be discussed . |
| 14 | As a means towards reducing the number of word paths , we considered the possibility of increasing the number of ‘ sound units ’ by using allophones in both the input utterance and the lexicon . |
| 15 | This tactic involved borrowing ideas from outside the community to force a change and was a typical ploy for incomers . |
| 16 | Apart from involving herself in the thick of the action , Rosemary spends a lot of time giving public talks , raising funds for both the Jubilee Sailing Trust and the training of dogs for the Hearing Dogs for the Deaf scheme . |