Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 2 | The two aims of increasing productivity and redistribution that have permeated agrarian thinking have often been seen as competing rather than complementary . |
| 3 | Misgivings had been expressed by many deputies , however , principally about allowing less than two weeks for preparation and discussion of such an important piece of legislation . |
| 4 | Even the Medical Research Council recognises that health services research ‘ is typically multidisciplinary , bringing together as appropriate expertise in biological and clinical science , epidemiology , statistics , economics and the social sciences . ’ |
| 5 | This meal has been shown to be totally absorbed producing less than 20 parts per million ( ppm ) of peak breath H 2 concentration , when consumed by normal volunteers . |
| 6 | Such agents could initiate an immunological process that becomes self perpetuating long after living organisms have disappeared . |
| 7 | Does it hold water and feel sticky when wet , cracking badly when dry ( predominantly clay or silt ) ? |
| 8 | She was fun to be with , her eccentricities were amusing rather than irritating , she was kind and she was Sara 's contact with the father she had never known . |
| 9 | Although by and large novices to the art of sevens , the Namibians — the worthy winners of the World Cup Sevens qualifying tournament in Catania , Sicily — provided a sample of the Southern African perception of the shortened version of the game : hard running , support and tackling rather than silky skill and stealth . |
| 10 | Administrative costs in the NHS were traditionally low , representing less than 10 per cent in the UK compared to more than 20 per cent in the USA . |
| 11 | Numbering less than 6000 souls , the Nez Perce roamed a traditional Plateau homeland of some 27,000 square miles , spanning western Idaho , south-eastern Washington , and north-eastern Oregon . |
| 12 | In 1990 the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) guidelines suggested that only 15–20 per cent of our food energy intake should be derived from fat , with saturated fats contributing less than 10 per cent . |
| 13 | The consequences and disadvantages of a bidder acquiring less than 100 per cent of the target are explained in para 9.1.2 below and Appendix 2 . |
| 14 | To put this data into perspective , of the 25 million workers in firms employing less than 100 only 5.4 per cent belong to a union . |
| 15 | Firms employing less than 100 people have higher death and injury rates than bigger ones . |
| 16 | As a direct funding advantage to smaller companies , the SMART and SPUR schemes will continue , and SPUR will be further limited to companies employing less than 250 employees ( as opposed to 500 ) . |
| 17 | Between 1975 and 1980 the share of firms employing less than 300 workers in total bankruptcy debts rose from 75 to over 90 per cent . |
| 18 | As elsewhere the impact of this assistance is difficult to assess , but state loans in Japan form approximately 12 per cent of outstanding loans to firms employing less than 300 workers . |
| 19 | Fifteen hundred establishments were surveyed , ranging in size from employing less than 25 to more than 500 , and spanning lo sectors of the Revised Standard Classification of Industry . |
| 20 | The fact that subjects could report fluctuating levels of subjective risk does little to discriminate between theories of risk in driving largely because these theories do not make sufficiently specific predictions about this subject . |
| 21 | Not least , the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 which require not only that any organisation employing more than four people must record the results of a health and safety risk assessment and for all employers to implement measures needed to minimise or eliminate hazards identified in their own assessments , but that ( other than sole traders and partnerships ) a ‘ competent person ’ — defined as someone with ‘ sufficient training and experience and knowledge or other qualities ’ — is appointed to help implement compliance with all H&S legislation . |
| 22 | ORGANISATIONS employing more than 35,000 people signed up for good health at a ceremony in South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 23 | DAINTYFIT is a major employer in the North West , employing more than 500 people at its Limavady site in the manufacturing of bras for Marks & Spencer . |
| 24 | For manufacturing companies employing more than fifty people , the Category A winner and recipient of the Industrial Development Board Award was Thermomax Limited . |
| 25 | Over the years , it has progressed and developed into an efficient organisation employing more than sixty staff , with an annual turnover of more than £1 million . |
| 26 | His mistake was employing more than one man to decorate his rooms . |
| 27 | Valuations were a matter of fact and expert opinion , and according to the Lord President ( Clyde ) in Duke of Portland v Woods Trustees [ 1926 ] , a true valuation could be made only after employing more than one measure , each legitimate but none necessarily conclusive by itself . |
| 28 | If we take a large firm to be one employing more than 1000 and a small one less than 100 , the latter in 1985 employed 15 times as many people in the private sector as a whole and five times as many in manufacturing . |
| 29 | Fringe benefits are also more significant for workers in large companies although their exact size is difficult to estimate because the Welfare Facilities Survey covers only the 50 per cent of labour in firms employing more than 30 workers . |
| 30 | Large firms employing more than 250 people where under-representation of Catholics is 5.1pc below target ( 39pc ) ; The police and other security-related occupations , like the Prison Service . |