Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's seeing me look like an old hag first thing in the morning and not minding ! |
| 2 | The agreement , by which Merck will pay the Institute $1 million , is intended to provide an incentive for the conservation of Costa Rica 's remaining forest lands , by allowing them to serve as a sustainable productive resource of materials other than timber . |
| 3 | This is performed by resuspending 50 g of diatoms ( Sigma D 5-384 ) in 500 ml of water , and allowing them to settle in a 500 ml measuring cylinder for 3 hours . |
| 4 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 5 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 6 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 7 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 8 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 9 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 10 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 11 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 12 | ‘ Rehabilitation medicine ’ at least sounds more positive , provided that it is recognised to mean far more than physical therapy and more than helping someone to recover from a single injury or illness . |
| 13 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 14 | All these strategies have the potential to involve all pupils in mathematical challenge , enabling them to engage in a broader curriculum . |
| 15 | If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code . |
| 16 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 17 | Meantime , through a successful series of acquisitions , it now has its hands on several key technologies , enabling it to interface with a broad spectrum of systems . |
| 18 | ‘ The refinancing secures the future operation of the Norsk Data group enabling it to continue as an independent and viable group . |
| 19 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
| 20 | He said it was essential that world business " should have an institutional mechanism enabling it to speak with a powerful voice as it seeks to influence governments and international organisations . " |
| 21 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 22 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 23 | She took the covering from one of the nearer pieces , revealing what looked like an old-fashioned letterpress . |
| 24 | The second draft discusses the relationship between the auditor and management and draws together in one document relevant sections from a number of international standards on auditing which relate to the different aspects of the auditor 's responsibilities in this area . |
| 25 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 26 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 27 | Our degree of enthusiasm at meeting someone varies from a flat ‘ hullo ’ , to a higher and more enthusiastic whinny ! |
| 28 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 29 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 30 | The Marian-centred approach has produced writing which ranges from the absurd and lurid to the scholarly and balanced — about Mary Queen of Scots . |