Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two techniques are primarily intended for use in table searching in main storage , and are only incidentally usable for direct files ; it is worth noting that they are intended to eliminate the order-preserving properties of division , while using division as a convenient randomizing algorithm . |
| 2 | The research will examine the adoption of new technology within a local labour market using Sheffield as a case study . |
| 3 | In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe . |
| 4 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 5 | The capacity to use young leaves with a high protein content may have permitted the emergence of large primates in the first place , but primates capable of remembering the sites and fruiting and leafing patterns of a wide variety of plants , could move more directly to such food , when and where available , more efficiently than those searching randomly . |
| 6 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 7 | Well , one couple are so determined that as many people as possible should at least have the CHANCE to read it that they 're producing copies at a quarter of the official price . |
| 8 | By demanding payment on a trifling amount , he is remembering what he should have forgotten and forgetting what he should have remembered — that he himself has just been forgiven . |
| 9 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 10 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 11 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 12 | The study will examine various organisational forms of collaboration using aerospace as a case study . |
| 13 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 14 | ( Just as unlikely as eating part of a dieffenbachia leaf . ) |
| 15 | He was eating sweetmeats from a silver dish and , whilst Benjamin and I knelt before him , he kept popping them into his mouth , watching us impassively . |
| 16 | I 'll go back to London , I 'll move to a new district , I 'll start seeing Sophie on a regular basis , I 'll do my job as if I were any competent lawyer , and I 've come here alone , you bastard , so why do n't you do whatever you 've got in mind ? |
| 17 | When accepting settlement of a bill by credit card the cashier should : |
| 18 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 19 | Interpersonal skills are behaviours , used face-to-face , that succeed in helping progress towards a useful outcome . |
| 20 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 21 | In anticipation of proving existence of a positive gcd we introduce Notation 1.4.1 The positive gcd of a , b ( not both of which are zero ) is denoted by ( a , b ) . |
| 22 | At the regional level , by relating material to demographic and socio-economic statistics and deriving projections as a guide to strategic forward planning . |
| 23 | There is a branch in your local area , reflecting programmes from a satellite . |
| 24 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 25 | They are also finalising plans for a European tour later this year — which is going to mean fewer dates back home — including Farnham . |
| 26 | The University has recently opened its first child care nursery and is actively pursuing plans for a second . |
| 27 | Inexperienced in the ways of the world , the boy is tricked into accepting money from a plausible and ( to Thomas ) impressive midshipman , a year younger than he but already well instructed in ways of avoiding the various laws against press-ganging . |
| 28 | Not only doing unnecessary jobs , but actually creating work by transferring cooked food out of saucepans into dishes before serving it , decanting milk into a jug and margarine on to a saucer . |
| 29 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 30 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |