Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he surprised that the hon. Member for Livingston now spends less time talking about trust hospitals than producing racing tips for the Glasgow Herald ? |
| 2 | With the benefit of experience , the authors feel that a more sensitive , qualitative approach , possibly incorporating a few standardised items , would have been better than using standardised scales for the difficult task of assessing depression and dementia in elderly people . |
| 3 | The database was to be established from 1993 , although differing legal standards for the protection of computer data could still cause technical problems . |
| 4 | If paying lower wages for the same work is not discrimination , then what is ? |
| 5 | Chez Gerard , a London restaurant which prides itself on its Frenchness and its wine list , is just one now considering offering non-French wines for the first time , including some from the Antipodes . |
| 6 | The resulting communiqué , while providing broad proposals for the adoption of the eighth five-year plan and of a 10-year programme , contained little detail , prompting speculation that debate over the pace of reform was still intense . |
| 7 | Thus the relatively more immature state of the human neonate , while posing formidable problems for the mother ( formidable problems which only communal hunting as a way of life could begin to solve ) , nevertheless bestowed immense advantages in terms of cerebral development by guaranteeing that human beings were born with progressively larger brains . |
| 8 | Here art orders our vision , deliberately interventionist in that it presents those uncertainties and anxieties of childhood where difference makes life a misery whilst providing poignant images for the artist . |
| 9 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 10 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |