Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there sufficient staff in the organisation prepared to promote nursing in the local community ? |
| 2 | ( 10 ) Acceptance of the cash underwritten alternative and the consequent disposal of the consideration shares might give rise to a liability to capital gains tax depending on the individual circumstances of the accepting shareholder . |
| 3 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 4 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 5 | Firstly pictures of their lead singer , Ben Volpierre Pierrot , have stopped appearing in the front sections of Sunday newspaper supplements captioned by bad puns on his name , and secondly the single from this album is all about leaving messages on an answering machine . |
| 6 | He stands gazing at the middle barrel . |
| 7 | But if there is no molecular symmetry other than the plane , the x and y axes are not uniquely determined by the symmetry and in-plane vibrations and may give a/b-hybrid bands depending on the relative directions of the A and B axes and the dipole change . |
| 8 | He also has the awkward problem of a narrow marginal seat in Bath which desperately needs nursing in the ordinary course of events , let alone during an election . |
| 9 | Most of us of course will be occupied seeing in the New Year . |
| 10 | No one surely needs reminding of the intimate ( and , on the face of it , incongruous ) relationship between advertising and surrealism — the surrealism of Magritte in particular . |
| 11 | Her father , as anxious as Hoskins to possess a memento of the child , executed two stoneware portraits , one a figurine of a small bare-footed child in a loose calf-length shift walking towards the New Horizon , the other a naturalistic representation of the little girl dressed for her coffin ( Col. 5 ) . |
| 12 | They will include climbing in the traditional foreign flesh pots and a new policy covering expeditions locations not included under the old general policy . |
| 13 | Products are grouped according to the principal benefit which customers perceive that their purchase will bring . |
| 14 | The data were then grouped according to the mean value . |
| 15 | Here are some words which are commonly used in essay and exam questions , grouped according to the basic types of writing which they might be asking you to do . |
| 16 | May Sinclair stopped writing in the late 1920s . |
| 17 | The objectives should therefore be modified according to the individual requirements of a student . |
| 18 | The numbers of tumours at each site were predetermined according to the approximate frequency of presentation at that primary site . |
| 19 | What is important is that cells in area MT of monkey always responded according to the illusory direction of movement of the chevron perceived by a human observer rather than to the physical direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 20 | Second , when they are raised , they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power . |
| 21 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |
| 23 | Its effect may produce dispersal rather than crowding according to the characteristic response repertoire of the species . |
| 24 | Later , the vogue for the now growing town was consolidated and much expanded by Dr Alexander Taylor , who recuperated there from the typhus he had caught serving with the sottish , mutinous and incompetent ‘ Spanish Legion ’ sent from England to help the Queen of Spain in her war against the Car lists of Navarre . |
| 25 | In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter . |
| 26 | Whichever style is used in plotless ballets the choreographer should submit to the structure of the music , particularly if the score develops according to the classical techniques of composition . |
| 27 | You will see that there are two parts to it — one in which the items have been sorted according to the geographical location ( ie by county name , alphabetically ) ; the other by service category . |
| 28 | Please prioritise these training needs according to the following table : |
| 29 | Or just too tired to do anything but enjoy looking at the pretty lady . |
| 30 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |