Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Basically interviewers are hoping that the answer to all their prayers is going to come walking through that door . |
| 62 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 63 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 64 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 65 | It covers trading in all listed and unlisted securities , gilts , and other fixed interest securities on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 66 | In order to examine in more detail the interaction between socio-political context , economic problems and educational policies pursued by governments , the case-study countries are grouped according to key problems and the variety of ways in which governments have attempted to deal with them . |
| 67 | OSF LOOKING FOR SCALABLE TECHNOLOGY |
| 68 | He stopped prowling at last , and dropped into one of the easy chairs facing me . |
| 69 | Consciousness and matter interact according to this principle . |
| 70 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 71 | Table IV gives rates of self reported smoking in 1989 and 1990 among pupils who were never smokers in 1988 . |
| 72 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 73 | They were not , however , modified according to any consistent principle , but by a variety of ad hoc remedies . |
| 74 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 75 | ENOCH POWELL : I do enjoy listening to other people talk . |
| 76 | In the poem Frost at Midnight Coleridge announced that his child Hartley was to be educated according to this theory , and Wordsworth , in writing about his own childhood , makes out a case that he was an example of the same process : The Prelude describes Wordsworth 's formative years from this point of view , and though the facts may be correct , the selection and emphasis of the facts is open to question . |
| 77 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 78 | Saddam Hussein proposed on Aug. 12 that all Middle Eastern occupation issues , or " issues that have been depicted as occupation " , should be resolved according to one set of UN Security Council principles . |
| 79 | Soon afterwards Saddam Hussein restated his Aug. 12 initiative , which proposed that all Middle Eastern occupation issues should be resolved according to one set of UN Security Council principles [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 80 | Rather than acknowledge this , if he is infertile , he 'll often feel no longer a man , and it is this feeling that needs addressing by both of you . |
| 81 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 82 | Recognizing that people do act according to established beliefs and pre-existing knowledge systems , he focuses upon distinguishing between the establishment of those beliefs ( which he calls ‘ ideologies ’ ) and action in accordance with those beliefs . |
| 83 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 84 | Erm I could n't er you 'd , I 'd need warning of that of course . |
| 85 | But once one starts looking at such headings , questions arise . |
| 86 | The human development of the disabled person is highly respected , so SPRED groups are organised according to four age levels : 6–10 year olds ; 11–16 year olds : 17–21 year olds : 22 and over . |
| 87 | Like most young people Sarah Jacobs loves looking at fashionable clothes . |
| 88 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 89 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 90 | It follows that the methods by which gold was obtained differed according to social circumstances . |