Example sentences of "[that] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecologists agree that eating less meat is better for you and the environment . |
| 2 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
| 3 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
| 4 | They seem to think that bringing foreign coal into this country and burning it in place of British coal will do something to limit carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 5 | And in his silence , in that tooting impatient traffic-jam , for the first time he wondered whether they had been killed . |
| 6 | And no one pointed out that at the Chelsea game , the programme had a huge 2-page spread entitled ‘ Stop the Munich song ’ in which Strach , Macca , Speedo , and others suggested that singing this stuff is a dumb thing to do . |
| 7 | I would go further and assert that typing simple programs into the computer is a useful spelling and reading experience . |
| 8 | ( Though if one simply considers ‘ all women ’ as against ‘ all men ’ , such a finding invariably fails to emerge ; which only goes to show that lumping all women together masks important and interesting facts . ) |
| 9 | Among the Cossacks , traditionally the epitome of loyalty to the throne , there was evidence that accumulating financial grievances and resentment over inadequate land grants were fuelling disenchantment with the regime . |
| 10 | Perhaps — just perhaps — your Higher Self knows that realising this Dream would not be in your best interests right now ? |
| 11 | And we also know that maintaining good health is a matter of having the right routine , getting into good habits . |
| 12 | This policy found little favor with the Pentagon which has said that maintaining these bases , for at least another 20 years , is a central priority in a new military doctrine , publicized under the title ‘ Discriminate Deterrence ’ . |
| 13 | I do n't know if you 're aware that using low sulphur coal , reduces only by 50% whereas if you use the other method it reduces by 90% , and what , in fact , Didcot are doing by that , is really not giving us a very good service . |
| 14 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | The logic of the inhibitor approach is obvious , but for a number of years I was reluctant to get involved in doing such experiments , as it was n't clear to me that using broad spectrum inhibitors such as those for protein synthesis would tell me anything precise about the biochemical processes I was trying to unpick . |
| 16 | Many agencies have tried to argue that using temporary workers can be cheaper than using permanent staff , because the employer pays only for the hours he needs and because the non-wage labour costs of agency workers are lower . |
| 17 | Secondly , there is nothing to suggest that using two languages detracts from either one of them or that it produces continued interference . |
| 18 | A corresponding study has prompted Silsoe researchers to suggest that using hydraulic motors to replace ptos will keep operators away from dangerous rotating shafts . |
| 19 | Remember that using illegal drugs is always dangerous . |
| 20 | Some environmentalists have expressed concern that using old mines as waste dumps could be both dangerous and expensive . |
| 21 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 22 | An anonymous respondent , similarly reticent about details of search firms ' names , agreed that ‘ large buys prestige in the eyes of candidates ’ , but warned that using these firms ‘ tends to restrict the choice of employer ’ from which to hunt and find candidates . |
| 23 | While there are still reservations among orthopaedic surgeons about the problems of removing the artificial hip and the long-term stability of the coatings , many believe that using these coatings offers the potential for much longer lifetimes of the artificial joint and their use in younger patients . |
| 24 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 25 | ‘ There is some irony in the fact that helping other companies make the best use of their existing premises — by installing mezzanine floors or space-saving racking systems — has meant that we have had to move to new premises to cope with the workload , ’ said Mr. Jeary . |
| 26 | As was seen in Chapter 2 , CAB volunteers expressly state that helping other people is an important part of the job satisfaction of an advice worker . |
| 27 | I do not wish to suggest that helping young people with personal family relationships is unimportant ; far from it ! |
| 28 | In the light of these concerns , and the dismal outlook of many , it is perhaps unsurprising that only 28 per cent agreed that helping older people to live as long as possible should be a priority issue . |
| 29 | Economies of scope do not necessarily mean that producing both models ( or whatever ) is better for the firm than producing one , because all other things may not be equal . |
| 30 | Apprehension was also voiced that allowing international organisations to create rights and obligations for member States could threaten the sovereignty of States , and undermine the basic principles of the international legal order , by elevating the legal status of international organisations . |