Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the large Ethiopian and Eritrean refugee camp at Towawa , near Gadaref in eastern Sudan , where 20 000 refugees have lived for over two years , parents stop their children using latrines because of the risk of the ground caving in during the rainy season . |
| 2 | Our new customer tracking system is giving us detailed information on customer tracking flows and purchasing bands and as a result we 're refining staff working arrangements in all stores with a clear objective of increasing sales and improving customer service . |
| 3 | Format : Karrimor 's shaped and malleable closed cell pad with aluminium frame , mainly used in climbing sacks and in the Papoose Classic baby carrier . |
| 4 | Experiments with lasers are now being carried out in nuclear physics laboratories throughout the world , revealing clues as to the shape and size of nuclei , for example , and providing a precision and sensitivity of measurement not possible before . |
| 5 | Computer software licence fees should be deductible as trading expenses if of a revenue nature and incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the trade . |
| 6 | The court takes the view that it has not had the benefit of seeing the witnesses , hearing their evidence and forming opinions as to the weight to be attached to it . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 8 | I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence . |
| 9 | This is a cheese which is expensive , smells of drains — it is marketed in wrapped wedges so you do not find this out until you get it home — and in consistence is more suitable for mending tyres than for the cooking pot . |
| 10 | Tasks allocated to — records the distribution of activities such as giving out books , going errands or within the class organisation eg group work tasks . |
| 11 | Also , the census was slow to be influenced by the techniques of survey method , both in the use of sampling designs and in the search for more appropriate data . |
| 12 | The objective had been to build seven nuclear bombs — the minimum necessary for testing purposes and for the maintenance of a credible deterrent capability . |
| 13 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 14 | It is available to British and foreign-owned businesses for projects providing or safeguarding jobs and for the development of intermediate areas . |
| 15 | Her mother had filled her early childhood with wonderful memories of picnics and riding ponies and of a stream of smiling schoolfriends who were always made welcome , but it was her father to whom she 'd felt closest . |
| 16 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 17 | Two district councils , Angus and Cumnock & Doon Valley , have already been pressing for changes and the committee was told that many other authorities were experiencing disadvantages because of the rule . |
| 18 | On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing . |
| 19 | Obviously , tenants will be unwilling to invest what may be considerable sums in refurbishing premises if at the end of the lease they will not be paid anything in recognition of the improvements to the premises which they have made . |
| 20 | Later came the introduction of polyethylene terephthalate film — ‘ Melinex ’ — for the packaging , photographic and printing industries and as a drawing office material . |
| 21 | In earlier times many miners had worked only a part of their time digging coal ; the rest of their income came from labouring jobs or from a smallholding . |
| 22 | Three lorries loaded with catering packs and worth a total of £160,000 were stolen from the Cairns and Brown compound in Washington . |
| 23 | Sometimes they give you the feeling that they have done you a great favour by attending rehearsals and at the end of the rehearsal period it 's ‘ Bye-bye loves , now you do your thing and I 'll go off and do another ’ . |
| 24 | Although having doubts as to the width of the order , Woolf L.J . |
| 25 | They scrambled up through the masses of dead leaves and dripping twigs and into the field beyond . |
| 26 | And the council also faces spending limitations because of the cost of renewing masonry at the Dolphin Centre . |
| 27 | Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Supporting Labour 's blueprint for an integrated transport system , he said : ‘ Never again must we see a Prime Minister chasing coffins and attending funerals because of a lack of proper investment in transport . |
| 29 | Sulphamic acid is often blended with a non-ionic detergent for use in descaling expensive equipment such as dishwashing machines and as an acid wash in ‘ clean-in-place ’ systems after the use of an alkali machine detergent . |
| 30 | He is responsible not only for the results , but also for giving orders and for the amount , quality and cost of the contributions . |