Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There ca n't be any excuse for overcrowding when money is available . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 3 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 4 | In relation to videos , the BBFC has become a fully fledged State censorship Board , charged by law with determining whether material on video is " suitable for viewing in the home " and with determining whether particular cassettes can be sold or hired to children . |
| 5 | One international soup company managed to continue its corporate image-building campaign by sending as Christmas presents boxes of biscuits and chocolates made by its continental subsidiaries . |
| 6 | It is not a work or method study exercise , but a way of establishing and monitoring agreed measures of performance , as a basis for determining whether action needs to be taken to bring this performance within desired parameters . |
| 7 | The list of n-grams collected was first built into a binary tree structure for ease of searching before comparison takes place ( see chapter three for further discussion of memory structures ) . |
| 8 | The median duration of vomiting before admission was also similar in both groups , being seven days in group A and eight days in group B ( W=39799.5 , p=0.34 ( 95% confidence interval -2.0 to 0.0 ) ) . |
| 9 | Insulin resistance ( which is clearly associated with abnormal fat distribution or obesity ) at an early stage might increase the androgenic microenvironment of the follicle thus decreasing oocyte quality and the chance of conceiving before androgen levels are raised in serum and before cycles become irregular . |
| 10 | Commenting on this guideline in Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , at 15 , McPherson J said : … the existence of a " dispute " , although a factor , is not necessarily a decisive factor in determining whether arbitration or appraisement is involved . |
| 11 | The rejection of a right of accession ensures that the intention of the parties remains the determinative factor in ascertaining whether accession is permissible . |
| 12 | Yet there is some difficulty in knowing whether Mill really meant to say anything very different from Bentham . |
| 13 | ( The sanctions committee had referred this issue to the Security Council on Sept. 12 after exploring ways of specifying whether food needs in iraq should be categorized as humanitarian . |
| 14 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 15 | At the very least , the precaution of staining thin sections with Alizarin Red S and potassium ferricyanide ( Chapter 4 ) is required as a rapid and sensitive method of determining whether variation in CL intensity is likely to be due to fluctuations in Mn activator or to the presence of Fe as a quencher . |
| 16 | The criteria which seem to be applied by both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in deciding whether leave should be granted are ( Blom-Cooper and Drewry , 1972 ) : |
| 17 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 18 | The Appeal Committee will hear oral argument before deciding whether leave should be given . |
| 19 | The UN Security Council should take a proactive role in peacekeeping before confrontation develops into conflict . |
| 20 | Well , it was a choice between asking whether life is just one long , or short , colossal fiasco , or whether you still wank . |
| 21 | The slow business environment there was cited as a reason for closing while director Lawrence Salander felt that too much time and input was required of him and his partner in order to get the project up and running . |
| 22 | The [ draft ] FRS contains requirements for determining whether capital instruments should be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 23 | She could n't stop shivering , but whether it was caused by cold or the strain of waiting until fitzAlan won free of the castle she did n't know . |
| 24 | The need for a certain amount of scrapping if accumulation is to proceed smoothly determines a necessary rise in product wages . |
| 25 | Below right , sewn boot round the rigging screws , plus the white line above , keeps sheets from snagging when tacking . |
| 26 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 27 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 28 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 29 | There is a totally painless way of establishing whether summer is really over , and that is to fill in the following checklist of autumnal signs as they occur . |
| 30 | Another way of asking whether cloze gets close to measuring comprehension is to consider what would happen if the sentences in a passage were randomly reordered . |