Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in some countries , overseas banks still perform the vital functions of mobilising savings resources and providing retail banking services to the indigenous population . |
| 2 | On the same day , work began on reconstructing and rebuilding telecommunications buildings and the following day a campaign was launched to repair damaged roads and bridges . |
| 3 | I was running up an unauthorised overdraft , too ; I 'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble . |
| 4 | In particular that fireworks comply with the British Standard that people register that they are keeping fireworks retailers and wholesalers so that we can go and inspect the storage conditions er and that people obey the law by not selling fireworks to people under the age of sixteen . |
| 5 | Her ascent was the first but it was marred by the loss of climbing partners Liliane and Maurice Barrard and two of her best friends , Wojciech Wröz and Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf . |
| 6 | In Eastern Counties Division One , third-placed Maldon can substantially improve their hopes of promotion by defeating rivals Newmarket and then pray for Bury St Edmunds to lose at home to Upminster . |
| 7 | A MOTORIST passed a police breath test after drinking five pints of beer — then complained to trading standards officers that the beer was too weak . |
| 8 | The bill , based on similar guarantees in the US , has widespread support from manufacturers , retailers , trading standards officers and consumer advisers . |
| 9 | But trading standards officers and the Consumers ' Association are warning customers to scrutinise the small print . |
| 10 | The complaints led to an investigation by police , trading standards officers and the Federation Against Copyright Theft ( Fact ) . |
| 11 | The President of the Board of Trade ignored trading standards advice that insurance was needed . |
| 12 | Dr J Majo Cruzate , Advisor , Director General , DG XIII at the Commission of European Communities , after outlined the history of the European Single Market initiative up to Maastricht and ( probably ) beyond , and went on to extol the virtues of creating a single market for IT in Europe , with the European Commission 's roll seen as harmonising standards efforts and funding research . |
| 13 | Matching 9″ bag and accessories provide a complete ensemble of colour coordinates . |
| 14 | Originally intending to do basic programme course it developed into a full HNC incorporating systems analysis and design as well as programming . |
| 15 | UK electricity generating companies PowerGen and National Power have received the licences to pollute required by the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 16 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 17 | And then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again , in an infinite regress . |
| 18 | Strong supporting cast includes Keanu Reeves ( fresh from Coppola 's Dracula ) , River Phoenix and sister Rain , Roseanne Arnold and , replacing drop-outs Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor , Lily Tomlin and Faye Dunaway . |
| 19 | Later Treat , who followed V as in Victim with other books in the same vein , was to say , " I did n't know I was writing police procedurals until somebody invented the term and said that was the kind of thing I was writing . " |
| 20 | Sony , which has been furiously lobbying standards organisations and other makers of disc drives ( the machinery that ‘ plays ’ the discs ) to accept its design , makes a 3-inch ( 7–2 cm ) disc encased in a hard plastic cover . |
| 21 | It is ideal for configuring NOS servers or inexpensive PC-based concentrators . |
| 22 | They confessed to such things as being in league with foreign powers , sabotaging economic projects , poisoning the workers food , causing railways accidents and plotting to assassinate Stalin . |
| 23 | From denoting women friends or gossips , the word came to denote the speech of gossips . |
| 24 | Amid a widespread mood of national reconciliation , sappers of the two armies collaborated throughout the month to neutralize some of the thousands of landmines concealed in wide areas of the country , and began recovering weapons caches and disarming civilians . |
| 25 | If the basis were significantly positive just prior to the delivery day , it would be possible to make substantial arbitrage profits by selling futures contracts and at the same time buying the underlying cash market goods in order to deliver them to the buyers of the contracts . |
| 26 | Now if you get these right , word for word you 'll be er , I do conditions of carriage quizzes on selling skills courses and the amount of people that get this right I can count on one hand in the last three years . |
| 27 | ‘ Rode through forty nights of the gospels ' rain Black sky pourin' snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul rider . ’ |
| 28 | Therefore , ignoring transactions costs and taxation , an arbitrage profit of £547.60 per futures contract was available by selling futures and buying shares . |
| 29 | This could indicate that distinct TBP-associated factors ( TAFs ) exist in a complex specifically directing polIII transcription as was very recently reported by Taggart et al ( 31 ) . |
| 30 | For one thing , lots of big French companies do business in the zone , selling Africans cars or scent , building government offices or logging timber . |