Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All users who are asked by LIFESPAN to endorse the SSR should do so using option 4.4.0 — Endorse SSR . |
| 32 | Surely they 'd do better making love on board Grace than on a few yards of Mackenzie tartan ? |
| 33 | Similarly the International Chamber of Commerce has rightly refused to incorporate into the Uniform Customs and practice for Docu-mentary Credits ( UCP ) rules as to the effect of forgery or other fraud , taking the position that the essential function of the UCP is to codify best banking practice in the handling of credits , not to provide a comprehensive legal text . |
| 34 | To get there via the complexity of legislation , contractual pitfalls , constructional problems and costing complexities let aside evaluating design possibilities needs skill , knowledge and commitment , certainly it can take a considerable amount of time . |
| 35 | We came here seeking refuge . ’ |
| 36 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 37 | Since that time , despite a further decline in profit margins , Amstrad 's PAS-score has risen again following attention to its balance sheet . |
| 38 | How many adverts have you seen recently selling life assurance and pensions , for example ? |
| 39 | Here the situations are the same for both but their response is different — one parent may be up and down shouting requests and injunctions to the children , whilst the other sits calmly drinking coffee . |
| 40 | Generally , it is difficult to ensure that building works are completed once planning consent has been granted . |
| 41 | The activity on the corn had somewhat died so taking advantage of the quiet spell I dozed off ( well , it had been a tiring drive ) . |
| 42 | If people are treated as though they are ‘ Theory X ’ people , because of management assumptions , ‘ Theory X ’ behaviour will in fact be induced thus confirming management in its beliefs and practices ( eg. ‘ clocking on ’ , time-keeping systems , close supervision and management controls etc ) , ie : ‘ Theory X explains the consequences of a particular managerial strategy ’ . |
| 43 | I do n't like just doing research without communicating it , and I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure I think that 's very important . |
| 44 | I 've always enjoyed teaching , it 's something which I feel is very important for somebody who 's a historian , I do n't like just doing research without communicating . |
| 45 | The wording of the section suggests that this power could not be used to restrict the right to inspect or obtain copies , for example by requiring good cause to be shown thus preventing share registers being used as ‘ sucker-lists , ’ but is intended to ensure that the matter is reproduced in a way which is as ‘ user-friendly ’ as possible without imposing undue burdens on the company . |
| 46 | We have higher interest rates , and recently we have also had rapidly rising unemployment compared with the rest of the EC . |
| 47 | But in the wake of the Fergie picture scandal , she will spend today offering support to the rest of the Royal Family . |
| 48 | We pray for those in the church who face particularly demanding work and support our fellow-soldiers in prayer . |
| 49 | The only reference point to give us a sense of our height was the tiny boat on the beach beneath us , with the two fishermen , who had not only declined to follow us up the crater , but also expressed an urgent desire to avoid even setting foot on shore . |
| 50 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 51 | He was just lying there watching telly and reading the paper and |
| 52 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 53 | Herodes ( p. 305 , n. 1 ) shows Thessaly exporting corn to her neighbours ( xvi ) . |
| 54 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 55 | Publishers found themselves forced into a downward spiral of competitive explicitness , and formed a bizarre trade association , drawing up voluntary guidelines to avoid continually courting prosecution . |
| 56 | Glencar Explorations , the company that holds the prospecting licence jointly with a British company , Andaman Resources , is one of 20 mining concerns currently investigating gold deposits in Northern Ireland and the Republic . |
| 57 | The best understood spirally cleaving animal is the nematode , Caenorhabditis elegans . |
| 58 | These studies show that mucosal metabolism can be assessed effectively using biopsy specimens without the need for epithelial cell purification . |
| 59 | He achieved little proselytizing success , but was more successful in his efforts to master the Persian , Arabic , and Turkish languages . |
| 60 | Like slowly rubbing salt into an open wound . |