Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing out our good clothes or wasting hot water to wash them ! ’ |
| 2 | At least 28 companies in the United Kingdom are developing or producing mains-signalling equipment . |
| 3 | They argue that causation involves one event ( the cause ) generating or producing another event ( the effect ) , and that we can obtain direct knowledge about this causal generation : we do not have to infer causality on the basis of temporal priority . |
| 4 | This will lead to even greater problems when there are errors in scoring or labelling some portion of the lattice . |
| 5 | This meant that there was a limit beyond which wages could be reduced without harming the industrial process or generating such misery that the workers would rebel against the system . |
| 6 | With accruals accounting , of course , postponing or bringing forward cash payments or receipts has no effect . |
| 7 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 8 | 5.9.6.2 prohibiting the undertenant from doing or allowing any act or thing in relation to the underlet Premises inconsistent with or in breach of the provisions of this Lease |
| 9 | 5.9.6.2 prohibiting the undertenant from doing or allowing any act or thing in relation to the underlet Premises inconsistent with or in breach of the provisions of this Lease |
| 10 | Trailing wires can so easily be cut when trimming back hedges or mowing long grass . |
| 11 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
| 12 | When you see those wildlife programmes on telly they 're all either fucking or eating each other . |
| 13 | Anyway , when it all gets too much and you ca n't bear the thought of writing another Christmas card or eating another mince pie just sit down and have a quiet read of your NCT newsletter ! |
| 14 | Basal or resting metabolic rate ( BMR ) is the speed your body burns calories at rest — in other words carrying out the job of staying alive : blood circulation , cell growth , digestion , thinking and so on . |
| 15 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 16 | ‘ When you 're not spitting venom , or preaching amateur socialism , I 've even noticed you 're passably attractive , ’ he persisted teasingly . |
| 17 | ‘ although a corporation can not maintain an action for libel in respect of anything reflecting upon them personally , yet they can maintain an action for a libel reflecting on the management of their trade or business , and this without alleging or proving special damage . |
| 18 | 9.1.3 undertakes that it will promptly disclose to the other Parties and to the Secretary of State any facts or circumstances which come to its attention indicating or suggesting any infringement or material risk of infringement of any patent or other Intellectual Property Right of any other person not being a Party to this Agreement through the expected mode of use or exploitation of its own results or background provided always that this undertaking shall not be deemed to impose or imply any specific obligation to undertake any patent searches of intellectual property rights or make any enquiries . |
| 19 | The African Institution dealt in business ‘ which Parliamentary men alone could manage ’ and this did little ‘ in the way of creating or organizing public feeling ’ by meetings or other means . |
| 20 | The maker producing 5000 to 600,000 cars a year whose efforts have been the most impressive in attaining new or maintaining ongoing success |
| 21 | The manufacturer producing more than 600,000 cars a year whose efforts have been the most impressive in attaining new or maintaining on-going success |
| 22 | Catholic nationalists who support or condone the killing of protestant loyalists do so on the grounds that members of the Northern police force and part-time army are either agents of British imperialism or maintaining alien protestant — loyalist power in a part of Ireland . |
| 23 | It is a normal sight to see the school technician discussing audio-visual maintenance , helping with a video presentation , instructing children in camera techniques or maintaining duplicating equipment . |
| 24 | From the economy 's viewpoint , resources devoted to lobbying the government or maintaining deliberate over-capacity may also be largely wasted . |
| 25 | This is the case where the graphic monetarist image of governments printing or minting new money is quite literally accurate since no alternative source or finance is available to them as a result of the restrictive assumptions of the model . |
| 26 | ( b ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or part thereof ; does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 27 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) This section also applies if , at any time after 9th June 1988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default — ( a ) attempts unlawfully to deprive the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises , or ( b ) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( i ) to give up his occupation of the premises or any part thereof , or ( ii ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or any part thereof , does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , and , as a result , the residential occupier gives up his occupation of the premises as a residence . |
| 29 | It is big enough for the bands to circle without getting in each other 's way or drowning each other out . |
| 30 | The wire mesh life guards were soon replaced by the Hudson & Bowring slatted type and slatted gates fitted between the bogies . |