Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New divorce legislation reported on Dec. 9 was said to grant unprecedented rights to women , allowing divorcees to seek compensation through the courts for housework which husbands had ordered them to do during the marriage . |
| 2 | For example , my Department funds various motor projects which have played an increasing role , and there are some excellent examples which focus on demanding programmes to get motor offenders to change to adopt responsible attitudes and behaviour . |
| 3 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 4 | So in practical terms of helping shoppers to make sound buying choices , the value of increased familiarity with APRs is somewhat curtailed by the way that people generally seem to equate it with the add-on cost of the credit . |
| 5 | The overall aim of the project is to make the contents of the Memoirs available to the public by using computers to prepare material for indexing and by reproduction . |
| 6 | Others , using questionnaires to evaluate personality traits , have suggested that many cutters have obsessional personalities ( McKerracher et al. 1968 ; Gardner and Gardner 1975 ) . |
| 7 | It seems likely that as these authoritarian empires arose the simple egalitarianism of hunter — gathering peoples gave place to the stress of hierarchy . |
| 8 | Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions . |
| 9 | Second , it introduced the practice of Interim Development Control by enabling authorities to give consent to development in advance of the preparation of a scheme . |
| 10 | Today 's Green Paper is expected to contain two separate methods of enabling employers to take action in the civil courts against the organisers of unofficial strikes . |
| 11 | Most of the workers are unauthorised , enabling employers to evade tax and British employment law , and make big profits . |
| 12 | The Maryland legislation was symptomatic of the continuing national debate over abortion , and the uncertainty surrounding the future of Roe v. Wade since the Supreme Court 's decision in July 1989 undermining that ruling by enabling states to restrict access to abortion [ see pp. 36809-10 ] . |
| 13 | On an earlier visit these children had closely observed nesting birds taking food to their young . |
| 14 | How many people will voluntarily give up driving cars to prevent acid rain or global warming ? |
| 15 | The current Plan shows that in 1991–92 , as was the case in 1990–91 , the level of grant provision is sufficient to avoid the diversion of purchasing funds to meet salary costs , which was unfortunately necessary in 1989–90 . |
| 16 | The Johannesburg city council on Jan. 30 , 1990 , approved a recommendation that trading areas in the city should be open to all races , thereby enabling blacks to own business property and to operate businesses anywhere in Johannesburg . |
| 17 | Many months of snow availability and a good sunshine record make it a favourite winter sports centre ; and a multitude of varied excursion opportunities and walking trails attract summer visitors . |
| 18 | Sacking sparks strike threat at Jonker home |
| 19 | In the long term , enabling carers to retain contact with the labour market , through arrangements such as job-sharing , flexitime and entitlements to ‘ family leave ’ ( Glendinning , 1992b ) and through the removal of some of the present restrictions on ICA ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 50 ) , represents one of the most effective ways of helping carers avoid poverty . |
| 20 | The majority are signing undertakings to cease action against the company in return for payments ranging from five hundred to five thousand pounds . |
| 21 | All contributing organisations receive acknowledgement on their specific vehicle as it travels hundreds of miles between schools , demonstrating commitment to the need for technology based skills for girls as well as boys . |
| 22 | There are provisions enabling investors to recover loss they have suffered as a result of entering into the share transactions . |
| 23 | Smartstream , Smartstream Analyzer and InterQ are aimed at organisations that want to reduce host computer cycles , automate application workflow and provide better information access to users at the desktop , while enabling customers to re-engineer business processes . |
| 24 | MasterCard International Inc has teamed up with Checkfree Corp to provide banks and their customers in the US with remote banking service , enabling customers to pay credit card bills and get financial information via the telephone or personal computer : MasterCard will provide technology , network management and marketing support and Checkfree will provide electronic bill payment processing , customer service and operations development for the new MasterBanking service . |
| 25 | Constructional kits , jigsaws , inset boards and stacking or nesting toys provide practice in fitting , ordering and estimating shapes and sizes . |
| 26 | But elsewhere , if wives and children in weaving cottages spun wool or cotton , then along with those in the cottages of farm workers they spun at piece rates for the merchant clothiers . |
| 27 | Dynamic Link Library support is intended to reduce development time for robust client-server applications , enabling users to interface MS-DOS tools with Top End 's remote client services , and adds to the support for MS-DOS , Windows and Unix remote clients . |
| 28 | The X/Open Co Ltd-compliant specification , known as the Distributed Format for Desktop Architecture , DFDA , and contributed by IXI Ltd , will provide a standard set of techniques for independent software vendors to write to , enabling users to get Unix applications up and running from an install icon within a variety of graphical environments without resort to shell commands . |
| 29 | The new Open Digital Studio format provides open interfaces to the Alias modelling format and rendering systems — Alias OpenModel and OpenRender — enabling users to develop custom effects and interfaces between Alias and other digital applications . |
| 30 | For Windows users , the company has introduced the LANtastic for Windows Scrapbook ( enabling users to share text , graphics and sound items ) , and — via the Artisoft Sounding Board — voice chat for communications between two personal computers , and LAN Radio for broadcasting messages across the network . |