Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1986 NACAB AGM overwhelmingly passed a resolution expressing concern that the proposals might change the fundamental character of the CAB service and might prejudice its independence , would cut legal services and reduce freedom of choice of legal service to the poor and would damage working relationships between CABx and legal aid practitioners , other advice agencies and law centres . |
| 2 | So in the Westinghouse case , one group of witnesses successfully claimed a privilege existing in English law , while another group of witnesses successfully relied upon a privilege existing in the law of the United States , the requesting State . |
| 3 | If you want to include iron losses ( occurring in the magnetic core due to the periodically change flux ) as well , you should better consult a book having a bigger section on transformers . |
| 4 | 1987 ) , it was felt that the police had wrongly considered a theft totalling £1,000 from a large company a serious arrestable offence . |
| 5 | Already several scientific papers inspired by the cube have been published : so has a textbook using the cube to develop theory for students . |
| 6 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 7 | Someone had been thoughtful enough to provide a felt lining to the bottom of the box so that there would be no noise from the falling coins . |
| 8 | I waited for what , I swear , was another hour before the door opened and in came a man wearing a mask and gloves . |
| 9 | In Harris v Wyre Forest DC ; Smith v Bush [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords rejected an argument that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report prevented a duty of care arising in tort and therefore fell outside the Act ; applying s13 , the House held that the disclaimer was subject to the Act and could only prevent a duty arising if it satisfied the test of reasonableness . |
| 10 | You should also see a newsagent on your left , so anticipate a man crossing the road with his nose in a newspaper and children darting across with ice-creams or sweeties . ’ |
| 11 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 12 | I think er we 're in danger of perhaps getting a misunderstanding going here . |
| 13 | The larger of the pair ( No. 3 ) apparently comprised a courtyard measuring 36 by 22 m ( 117½ by 72 ft ) , surrounded by rooms , though there are irregularities on the north . |
| 14 | Where a clause requires the making of an application to the President of the RICS it is sufficient for the applicant merely to send a letter making the application , even though the application will not be processed ( and hence will not come to the attention of the other party ) until the requisite fee is paid ( Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Co Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 ) . |
| 15 | However , the fact that the other local minima found by the algorithm were all less than 0.15% greater than this value indicates that the path length would not necessarily have a minimum coinciding with the best probe order in other data sets containing many repeats , a fact illustrated by chromosome III . |
| 16 | What would happen is the prescription would be written and they 'd either get it from the chemist who would constantly have a stock coming in or the hospital . |
| 17 | Pausing only to send a page running to fetch her maid , fitzAlan marched her all the way to the ladies ' solar , deliberately avoiding the crowded hall . |
| 18 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 19 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 20 | On occasions the courts have gone further and disqualified a member of a tribunal or board " if there are circumstances so affecting a person acting in a judicial capacity as to be calculated to create in the mind of a reasonable man a suspicion of that person 's impartiality , those circumstances are sufficient to disqualify although in fact no bias exists " ; see Law v. Chartered Institute of Patent Agents [ 1919 ] 2 Chapter 276 ; Metropolitan Properties Co . |
| 21 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 22 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 23 | We 'd better get a group working on it . |
| 24 | Now he must face the FA again , accused of verbally abusing a linesman following last week 's defeat by Arsenal . |
| 25 | He wrote to the company 's insurers outlining Susan 's complaint , and eventually received a letter explaining that he would have to provide evidence that the stylist had not done her job properly . |
| 26 | Would you not think a statute prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape distinctly better than a statute prohibiting abortion except to women born in one specified decade each century ? |
| 27 | Marion Blockley has just completed a book outlining discoveries from the last two decades . |
| 28 | Marion Blockley has just completed a book outlining discoveries from the last two decades . |
| 29 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 30 | The Court acknowledged that the Registry could not make a decision binding upon it in its judicial capacity . |