Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nicholle , from Bristol , and Janine , from London , will try to combat this by becoming body-buddies , phoning each other to scold and encourage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Harry Christopher has done his homework well here , shaping each phrase according to the meaning of the text . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We can not have a deep friendship without allowing that friendship to influence us , because that is the very nature of a deep friendship . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is a remarkable sign of mollycoddling that racing has kept its levy at all . |
| 18 | I wish to inject an addendum in deliverance fourteen after the words each other , helping each other to continue to mature add the words christian worship together is seen as a priority . |
| 19 | But a closer look at the video recording showed that both men were helping each other to drive . |
| 20 | They are helping each other understand their different experiences of life , and their different views and attitudes towards it . |
| 21 | This allows us to enter into this exercise in vulnerability which amounts to helping each other take off our emotional armour . |
| 22 | They had not taken the step of demanding political change to make the decisions which affected their lives a matter of debate and consent before they were taken . |
| 23 | Avoid using strong styling waxes as these are moisture based and can cause reds to fade . |
| 24 | Accepting that milk remains as vital part of the diet makes the whole process of weaning more relaxed for both mother and baby . |
| 25 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 26 | In 1856 Alexander was very far from accepting that emancipation meant compulsion . |
| 27 | CD44 glycoprotein was purified from a monocyte-rich preparation of peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes by immunoaffinity chromatography using monoclonal antibody raised against CD44 , NIH44–1 ( ref. 39 ) , and applied at 1ng per well ( estimated by silver staining ) . |
| 28 | He is often said to be fixing a ‘ tariff ’ period ; and there is no harm in using that expression provided that one realises that it is the Home Secretary 's tariff , not the judges ' tariff . |
| 29 | Basically it was receiving telephone calls from the public erm and using that information to put on a computer to send officers to incidents various incidents . |
| 30 | Either it 's argued that British life does n't show up well in front of a film camera , or that British filmmakers are n't capable of using that camera to probe behind the surface of things . |