Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common cause of this is taking antibiotics by mouth , because these can kill off the ‘ good ’ bacteria in the gut , allowing not-so-good microbes to multiply and replace them . |
| 2 | Using eight display screens the team on duty can monitor and control the pressures and flows of gas coming into the region through the national and regional offtakes , maintaining safe operating limits and ensuring demand is met . |
| 3 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 4 | Nicholle , from Bristol , and Janine , from London , will try to combat this by becoming body-buddies , phoning each other to scold and encourage . |
| 5 | A general amnesty was granted allowing political exiles to return freely . |
| 6 | For some time airlines , particularly British Airways , have been bringing strong pressure to bear within the CAA 's Finance Advisory Committee ( FAC ) to reverse the present charging scheme , whereby 97.6 per cent of its AOC income comes from the Variable Charges , in favour of the majority of income being derived from the Fixed Charges element , which would then reflect the actual expenditure of effort by the CAA in respect of each company . |
| 7 | Harry Christopher has done his homework well here , shaping each phrase according to the meaning of the text . |
| 8 | The corps have become , according to Medhurst ( 1973 : 113 ) , ‘ a means of transforming administrative structures to serve private ends ’ . |
| 9 | First , maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important . |
| 10 | The business is estimated to be doing about $200m a year , and a key attraction for the Cupertino company is that Texas sells almost exclusively through resellers , and Hewlett-Packard sees big potential in mobilising that army to take on board its own computer products as well . |
| 11 | Delphy points out that if one jettisoned the idea of the family as unit of stratification , using economic criteria to classify individuals instead , most wives would come out below their husbands . |
| 12 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 13 | Technically sweet and politically acceptable , it avoids accusation of moral hypocrisy by using economic arguments to appeal to self interest . |
| 14 | What irks the Brits , and irks far more their Unionist fellow-citizens in Northern Ireland , is that foreigners — in pursuit of domestic votes , not Irish welfare — are using economic pressure to tell them how to behave . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 16 | Control is obtained by allocating ownership of space depending upon a person 's position in the organizational structure , allowing that person to change details only in his own space . |
| 17 | We can not have a deep friendship without allowing that friendship to influence us , because that is the very nature of a deep friendship . |
| 18 | Apart from using subtle ways to show his disapproval of her , he saw the redundancy exercise initiated by the government of Tanzania as the perfect excuse and a legitimate cover for her dismissal . |
| 19 | Reducing the brush bow strips to just less than in allows then to be bent without steam , and using dry wood allows the use of epoxy rather than Cascamite , retaining adequate strength despite the thinner strips . |
| 20 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 21 | The use of ‘ objective ’ business techniques of accounting to justify closures and rationalization reflecting political decisions has been extensively documented in the case of the British mining industry ( O'Donnell 1985 ) and the nationalized steel corporation ( Bryer et al. |
| 22 | Attlee chided them for ignoring any notion of what the country could afford in suggesting armed forces levels , and for suggesting that cutting spending on the armed forces to £700 million would virtually immobilize them . |
| 23 | And I am not suggesting that learning to relax will change a single external circumstance ; what it will change is the effect those external circumstances have on your mind and body . |
| 24 | Jean-Marc Brocard is an exceptionally talented wine-maker producing classic wines using modern vinification techniques . |
| 25 | One of the main problems , particularly at the Everest base camp , is this business of allowing eight expeditions to climb Everest at the same time . |
| 26 | developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts . |
| 27 | The Foreign Ministers signed a document covering the withdrawal of Russian forces from Poland by Nov. 15 , and an agreement binding each side to make no claims for compensation over the stationing of Soviet troops in Poland . |
| 28 | The courts will , however , have some regard for such conventions presuming that Parliament intended to comply with its moral obligations and bring our law into line with the convention . |
| 29 | Gafyn Blakeway , a PhD student in the Department of Animal Husbandry , is devising methods of encouraging social stability , partly by using imprinting techniques to encourage birds to stay in small subgroups within the larger flock . |
| 30 | It is simply a method of filtering political inputs to produce elite pluralism ( Aron , 1950 ) rather than mono-elite domination . |