Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art critics are being blamed for vandalising cast iron sculptures which have been likened to ice-cream cones or seashells . |
| 2 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 3 | They are used in learning vocabulary as well as for mastering grammatical structure . |
| 4 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 5 | And if demand was substantially reduced then the urgency for bringing new power stations on stream could equally diminish . |
| 6 | The Panel is proving its worth as a forum for the discussion of new procedures and for bringing practical information to the attention of Lending Services . |
| 7 | We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury . |
| 8 | Initially the stated aim had been to promote economic and cultural co-operation , but the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe since 1989 had added a new dimension , the grouping coming to be viewed as a vehicle for bringing emergent east European democracies into the Western fold . |
| 9 | Pros for bringing Rubber Girl — |
| 10 | Here you will carry out all of the tasks you have been trained for including general ship 's duties . |
| 11 | The awards are made annually to choirs , choral , orchestral and concert societies who have shown enterprise in plans for including contemporary music in their programmes . |
| 12 | ( Notice here that the ‘ causal relation ’ between the events is artificially contrived , and indeed the only basis for attributing causal status to the events is their temporal relation . ) |
| 13 | By the 1970s , critics claimed that government had become ‘ overloaded ’ with responsibilities and popular expectations — such as maintaining full employment or delivering rising living standards . |
| 14 | Doone stopped reading and remarked , ‘ You do n't say anything about sharpening old bicycle frames and railings . ’ |
| 15 | The sagittal plane is the most helpful for imaging spinal pathology , supplemented by axial images of the area of abnormality or suspected pathology . |
| 16 | The annual costs estimate includes £155 million for a ‘ strengthening of management at all levels , ’ £10.5 million to pay members of health authorities , £15.6 million for administering general practitioner budgets , and £3.3 million for computers to monitor drugs spending . |
| 17 | In announcing yesterday that its Automated Pit Trading system will start on 30 November , the London International Financial Futures Exchange inserted the final element in a cautious but promising strategy for intergrating electronic trading and open outcry , and setting the pace for exchange reform in London . |
| 18 | For sharpening ordinary iron jumpers the next month he was paid 3/ per 20 doz. for 117 doz . |
| 19 | CIC is already one of the world leaders in pen operating systems , having produced PenDOS , an environment specifically designed for use not only in developing totally new pen based applications , but also for transforming existing mouse driven DOS and Windows applications so that they can become ‘ pen aware ’ . |
| 20 | Theoretical methods for transforming total intensity anomalies to vector-field anomalies have been studied . |
| 21 | Scottish Widows was punished for allowing greedy insurance brokers to sell unnecessary insurance to customers so that they could pocket huge commissions . |
| 22 | In October 1989 , after four years of dispute , the European Commission finally began its legal attack on the UK for allowing excess nitrate in the water supply of Norwich and Redbridge , and for illegal levels of bacteria and aluminium elsewhere . |
| 23 | The report found that the direct cause of the accident was faulty rewiring work carried out near Clapham in November 1988 , and that BR had to accept collective responsibility for allowing bad working practices to slip to unacceptable and dangerous levels . |
| 24 | Teachers were criticised for allowing bad behaviour . |
| 25 | Teachers were criticised for allowing bad behaviour in some classrooms . |
| 26 | And he 's promised to look again at the case for allowing British Rail to bid for franchises . |
| 27 | By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules . |
| 28 | Paper tools produced by academics are often criticised by grass roots workers for setting standards too high and for using middle class standards to measure the achievements of children from working class families . |
| 29 | Should police officers be disciplined for using racialist language ? |
| 30 | Some guidelines for using current league tables |