Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the negligent misrepresentation induces a contract between the parties , it may be more advantageous to proceed under s2(1) of the 1967 Act , not least because it reverses the onus of proof by placing it upon the seller ( see Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 ) . |
| 2 | In Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 , a case decided under s3 of the 1967 Act , Lord Denning considered the following factors to be relevant : the parties were of equal bargaining position , the representation made was innocent , and in any case the plaintiffs had failed to prove that they had reasonable grounds for believing the truth of the statement . |
| 3 | Responsibility for changing this and keeping information up to date can be delegated to a staff nurse or senior student . |
| 4 | Including relatives ( or friends ) in this and offering information such as visiting times and the hospital telephone number reassures the patient that there is no intention of cutting him off from his family and social contacts . |
| 5 | The simplest way to encourage this is to push a bamboo cane into the ground to leave a sloping hole 5–6in deep , inserting the tip of the shoot into this and treading firm . |
| 6 | When you next indulge in self-stimulation , instead of summoning up the prone and panting form of some nymph of your fervid fancy , at the moment of climax I want you to contemplate your own dappled visage . |
| 7 | After examining women at senior executive level in the US she discovered that while men were annoyed by perpetual interruptions , women took them as opportunities to cement relationships , commend staff and to learn.The ‘ ecology of leadership ’ as Helgerson labels it , promoted the long-term and sees daily events within a larger , historical and unfolding context . |
| 8 | Later sources had it that the king was murdered : Geoffrey le Baker , writing thirty years after the event , provides the vivid details of the brutal and degrading way in which he is supposed to have met his death , but Dr Cuttino and Dr Lyman have recently suggested that the story of his escape to Ireland and then via France to Cologne where he ended up as a hermit may not be wholly imaginary . |
| 9 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
| 10 | There follows a passage in which the extended metaphor of free liberating and fertilizing flow situates English literature as the natural and unpolluted source for the most valid native experience and sense of identity : |
| 11 | He is unemployed and receiving state benefit as employed which is n't very much |
| 12 | However , the UK economically active included still large proportions who were unemployed and receiving unemployment benefit , and a proportion of females working part-time , 43.9 per cent , which was exceptionally high . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons are currently unemployed and claiming benefit . |
| 14 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 15 | Although no extraneous gas is used , CAMRA also frowns on the breather as interfering with the natural process of maturing and serving cask beer . |
| 16 | I hope that as a result of visiting the vehicle , you will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer . |
| 17 | I hope that as a result of visiting WISE VI you , your colleagues and pupils will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer , both through study in further and higher education and subsequently employment . |
| 18 | On reaching adulthood , people continue to strive to be better than others ; to earn more money , buy a larger home , hold down an interesting and fulfilling job and lead a rewarding life . |
| 19 | The Wild Warriors of West Lothian made a surly and grumbling retreat . |
| 20 | Realistically , South Africa is the only country in the southern hemisphere which has the commercial and playing infrastructure to host a World Cup on its own . |
| 21 | Mr Prescott , 42 , will set up the track organisation in Scotland , work out its commercial and planning structure and how it will relate to the train operating company and any remnants of BR . |
| 22 | AEA 's Commercial and Planning Director , James Bretherton , commented that the ‘ MMC Report has been useful external validation of what we are trying to achieve . |
| 23 | On healthy hair the cuticle scales lie flat , reflecting light and giving hair a healthy sheen . |
| 24 | If that 's being an idiot then I guess I 'm an idiot , and I 'll be a happy idiot because I like travelling light and having fun . |
| 25 | It is based on a study of flashing light and vibrating pad alarms at the Radcliffe Hospital and Infirmary , Oxford . |
| 26 | Next year is National Trust Gardens Year and the series is taking a suitably horticultural theme : English Garden Style , John Sales , Chief Gardens Adviser ( 14 January ) ; Stourhead Garden — The English Arcadia , Dudley Dodd , Deputy Historic Buildings Secretary ( 21 January ) ; Garden Plants from the High Himalaya , Tony Schilling , Deputy Curator of Wakehurst Place ( 28 January ) ; Biddulph Grange — The Restoration of a Victorian Garden , Keith Goodway , garden historian and botanist ( 4 February ) ; Restoring and Designing Garden Features , Paul Edwards , landscape architect , writer and journalist ( 11 February ) ; The Victorian Walled Garden , Peter Thoday , presenter of the BBC 's Victorian Garden series ( 18 February ) ; Other People 's Gardens , Norman Painting OBE , garden enthusiast and Phil Archer of the BBC 's The Archers ( 25 February ) ; Alec Clifton-Taylor Memorial Lecture : Four Centuries of Gardening at Chatsworth , The Duchess of Devonshire ( 4 March ) . |
| 27 | Apple Blossom Afternoon is the funny and moving story of an ordinary man who takes a gamble with extraordinary results . |
| 28 | A WARM , sharply observed drama of female friendship , girlhood dreams and adult realities , Liz Lochhead 's 1988 play ( substantially revised by the author for this Brunton Theatre company production ) is memorable for its affectionate understanding of the rich , funny and moving complexity of ordinary people 's lives . |
| 29 | Facile complicity with the reader is rejected in favour of a quite rigorous and demanding process of consciousness-raising , in which the legitimate social demands of an oppressed readership catalyse the revolutionary writer into becoming a stern and uncompromising task-master goading the reader into political action . |
| 30 | ‘ A regulatory agency ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach ’ . |