Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a private customer can be an expert for this purpose only if : ( 1 ) The firm reasonably believes that he has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that . |
| 2 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
| 3 | Outside in the street , huge crowds were already gathering , joking and laughing , and pushing to get the best places near the great black platform , where the rope hung ready for its morning 's work . |
| 4 | The attempt is structured in terms of an historical overview of blacks ' attachments to sport , starting the analysis in the eighteenth century and seeking to document the social sources behind the enduring link . |
| 5 | In Conrad , for example , the focus lies in the sense of individual man vividly exploring and seeking to comprehend the elusive data of his alien environment . |
| 6 | MICHAEL JACKSON is ‘ killing himself ’ by hiding away and refusing to face the real world . |
| 7 | Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan says and I might say so , slightly mischievously , well after all he 's going to appoint the appointers and going to make the short list , short list for the Right My Right Honourable Friend to appoint , but of course somebody 's got to appoint the appointers and er that would be done by the by my Right Honourable Friend , but that does n't mean to say for goodness sake that they 're in his pocket . |
| 8 | Laura was still roughly chastising herself , and attempting to ignore the hard knot of unsatisfied desire still gripping her body , when Ross came back into the room . |
| 9 | Between the announcement on 26 August of a government ban on L'Humanite and Ce Soir , and the annoucement of his own resignation on 25 September , he spent four weeks wrestling with his conscience and attempting to understand the full implications of what had happened . |
| 10 | Grindley may have his fate in his own hands , with Black spurning the chance to run tonight and deciding to run the 200 metres in this weekend 's Pearl British Championships at Crystal Palace . |
| 11 | Some parents with HIV choose to make arrangements for their child to be adopted and they and their children have the opportunity of selecting and getting to know the adoptive parents . |
| 12 | Although his may not sound much , after reading the book and getting to know the calm character of Mrs Aimsley , it comes as a big surprise when she starts to get very emotional and make irrational accusations to Imamu . |
| 13 | In touring Northern England George Orwell saw the era of state housing moving into its expansionist phase and beginning to transform the urban landscape . |
| 14 | The kind of films I want to make in the future would be totally gay in sensibility , whatever that might mean , but totally about heterosexuals and aiming to seduce the general population . ’ |
| 15 | At the same time , it is drawing up a list of preferred suppliers and aiming to reduce the total number . |
| 16 | We flew round corners and bounced over cobbled junctions , ignoring traffic lights and scattering innocent pedestrians , speeding through puddles and swerving to avoid the steaming manhole covers . |
| 17 | Council officers in Sefton now plan a clamp-down after a survey in the borough found retailers have been flouting the law by selling tobacco to under 16s and failing to display the statutory notices . |
| 18 | Managers are sometimes accused of not knowing ‘ what kibbutz life tastes like ’ while they in turn sometimes accuse the rank and file of insufficient effort and failing to appreciate the long-term goals of the kibbutz . |
| 19 | We tend to take plants for granted , seeing them as just another aspect of the environment and failing to appreciate the vital service which they perform both for ourselves and for all other living creatures on this planet . |
| 20 | At the same time , he sees many urban social movements as defensive , insular and failing to challenge the deeper structures of society and state power . |
| 21 | Rather than wake him by pulling the clothes off him and having to face the likely consequences , Mrs Stych put her housecoat over her nightgown , got a spare blanket out of her old hope chest , and eased herself down beside the chrysalis which was her husband . |
| 22 | This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned — assemble them dry and mark with a pencil . |
| 23 | While many spectators spend the afternoon guzzling champagne and waiting in orderly fashion for a glimpse of the Royal family , seasoned punters will be fighting for survival in the betting ring and jostling to see the equine stars . |
| 24 | Of course a real class defender can do all the thinking and playing to leave the big man to just climb all over the opposing centre-forward . |
| 25 | For instance , being in the business , and purporting to understand the wider implications , our designs would have to be sensitive to the practicalities and compromises involved in production — whether or not these instruments ever got to that stage . |
| 26 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 27 | Backing from under the bed , she made a dash for the door , twisting and ducking to avoid the out-stretched hand of the landlord 's wife . |
| 28 | The return to being on the inside of the charmed circle entails potential employees extending their search and queuing to join the successful rent-seekers ; i.e. search unemployment is raised . |
| 29 | I decided to be unconventional ; dressing differently ( stripy socks and outrageous make-up ) , wearing trousers at every opportunity and trying to organize the other girls into a socialist club . |
| 30 | And trying to get the light poles up . |