Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 The best way to create jobs in the telecommunications industry is through liberalisation , our duopoly review , opening up the market , allowing the new products to come through and allowing customers to make their decisions in the marketplace .
32 The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ;
33 The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol .
34 Allowing the Irish peasants to buy land — did the government think they would be satisfied with just that ?
35 Indeed , one representative of a finance house pointed out that there was a benefit in allowing the short-term debts to be cleared first ; it gave the debtor a light at the end of the tunnel , an achievable goal to aim at .
36 By law no preparations are to be made in anticipation of death , apart from allowing the loved ones due access , and the positioning of candles — symbolic of the flickering life and to chase away the forces of darkness .
37 The blue eyes were cold and watchful as he lounged casually in front of her , the thin sea island cotton shirt allowing the darker hairs on his chest to show through .
38 Again it was apparent that the remedies were more effective than conventional therapy alone , often allowing the conventional drugs to be reduced or discontinued .
39 The Active Gel Network consists of very fine links which release under the pressure of application and then re-form , holding colour pigments , ultraviolet filters and oils on the surface and allowing the moisturising agents to penetrate .
40 She should begin by allocating days off , allowing the maximum numbers to be away on the days of least workload .
41 He was for ‘ a delicious diligent indolence ’ , for a passiveness allowing the intellectual powers to come very gradually to ripeness .
42 The whole point of allowing the big schemes to go ahead at this difficult economic time , after all , is not just to get roads and railway lines built but to cut unemployment and get the economy moving .
43 Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition .
44 To keep the images and text flowing across the facing pages , Japanese book binding was chosen , allowing the embossed images and the letterpress to be printed , not at the same time , but on both sides of the same page folded over .
45 The idea is for operating system personalities such as OS/2 , AIX and DOS/Windows to run on top of a microkernel that will be available across a range of IBM machines , allowing the same applications to run under a variety of personalities .
46 ‘ You drink too much of that , ’ she said , straightening , and allowing the fine drifts of material to swish to the floor .
47 The enclosing box coordinates of each part , specifying their geometric domains , are held as high priority data in both the drawing file and specific sub.assembly files , allowing the geometric relationships of parts to be readily checked .
48 As the Australians retreated eastwards , attempting to form a defence perimeter , 630 Japanese paratroops were dropped to snipe among them , slowing their retreat and allowing the battle-hardened elements of the Japanese 38 Division — some 5,000 men — to outflank the Australians ' withdrawal .
49 These authors postulate that in as yet an unexplained way it is the accumulation of these lipid-laden foam cells in the sub-endothelium that damage the endothelium , thus allowing the subsequent developments in the formation of the atheromatous plaque to proceed .
50 Movement can also be limited by the body in order to protect itself from further harm , e.g. the pain from a twisted ankle prevents mobility , thus allowing the inflamed tissues to rest and heal .
51 If , by overruling the existing authorities , this House were able to change the law for the future only I would have urged your Lordships to do so .
52 By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses .
53 Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings .
54 Cos it comprises a checklist encompassing the major requirements necessary to complete and the project and it helps to identify the processes involved , and the stage to which are to be taken , for the s for the successful completion of the project .
55 Under the title ‘ Tender is the North ’ suggestive of saunas and birch twigs London is hosting a festival of Scandinavian culture encompassing the visual arts , music , literature and drama .
56 James waved a hand that strove to be nonchalant , encompassing the various paintings and sculptures which surrounded him and which , as it happened , featured an extraordinary number of nubile and semi-naked ladies in a recumbent posture .
57 The work presented here is concerned entirely with the bone beds in the breccias , which are identified as part of the Calcareous Member of the Westbury Formation ( the other member being the Siliceous Member encompassing the basal sands and gravels ) .
58 Indeed , protein trees encompassing the three domains of life ( archaebacteria , eubacteria and eukaryotes ) are becoming more popular as the number of available protein sequences from archaebacteria increases .
59 As this sub-national programme has developed , it has become apparent that a major ingredient in its success will be the construction of a rolling programme encompassing the specialised needs of all governing bodies .
60 When I put down the receiver I heard Geoff Tulloch 's voice out in the main office , impressing the young women with his irrepressible personality .
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