Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is also a case for including acts of gross indecency performed on or with girls of 18 years and below who may still be at school and dependent on their parents , since such acts too may be highly damaging . |
| 2 | There may be difficulties in particular law centres in finding the right balance between assisting clients in individual cases and taking on group work or projects , but it seems unduly restrictive to deny that the latter was a proper role for lawyers to play . |
| 3 | Equally bad from the point of view of damp exclusion in the circumstance of a breach appearing in the roof surface , and even worse in terms of the restrictions it places on the opportunities for salvaging slates in any wholesale reconditioning of the roof covering , is the arrangement in which the slates are nailed directly to boarding , no fixing battens having been incorporated . |
| 4 | It 's well worth submitting entries to minor competitions as they often attract very few entrants giving high chances of success . |
| 5 | Her colleagues , however , used methods which proved no more reliable , such as charting graphs for daily price movements and basing future patterns purely on the past . |
| 6 | The way any scientific field develops , however , is through organizing observations around such general principles , and these are retained unless there is very good reason to abandon them . |
| 7 | He has sketched a procedure for inventing classifiers in many learning situations , and he suggests a Bayesian approach which helps find good heuristic components for them . |
| 8 | For helping pupils towards greater sophistication in their thinking , the following suggestions may be helpful . |
| 9 | Similar conflicts arise in the case of regional development policy , which again is important in countries such as Italy , Spain , France and Britain for maintaining bases of political support and consensus . |
| 10 | The unit is responsible for maintaining relations with existing MIPS OEMs — Control Data , Daikin Industries , Digital Kienzle , Siemens Nixdorf and Tandem — and finding new business . |
| 11 | In 1926 over a dozen Constituency Labour Parties were disbanded for accepting Communists into individual membership and for being controlled by the Leftwing Movement . |
| 12 | We are left with the rather worrying conclusion that cerebral cortex , as a whole , is homologous in all mammalian species but we should be very , very cautious about accepting homologies between specific cortical areas . |
| 13 | Andrew Graham says a toxic waste incinerator owned by Re-Chem , was responsible for poisoning cattle on two of his farms . |
| 14 | The CML drew attention to the initiative of the Law Society of Scotland in providing assistance to those firms of accountants responsible for auditing books of Scottish solicitors . |
| 15 | Childbearing acts as a powerful filter for channelling couples into one or other of the tenures and therefore it tends to reinforce the differences between groups . |
| 16 | In addition to giving guidelines for individual viewing , in some circumstances it might be worth producing worksheets for some of the programmes in the library stock . |
| 17 | For stepping rates between 100 and 435 steps 5 1 : From Eqn . |
| 18 | There are special wall-track systems for attaching materials of all weights to the wall . |
| 19 | The procedures for labelling embryos with fluorescent microparticles are as follows . |
| 20 | A badge scheme is also to be introduced for participants , whereby badges are awarded for completing abseils of varying lengths and on payment of a nominal fee . |
| 21 | Latin names are still used for naming metals in some complex anions ( see below also ) . |
| 22 | Almost adjacent to the vineyards of Aÿ , these vines have long had a reputation for producing wines of similar quality and character to the famous grand cru . |
| 23 | In this case , the line element ( 10.1 ) for colliding waves with aligned constant polarization can be rewritten in the diagonal form ( 10.61 ) and the main vacuum field equation ( 9.3 ) , ( 10.2 ) or ( 10.13 ) becomes ( 10.62 ) and the subsidiary equations ( 10.3 ) become ( 10.63 ) where the dot and prime denote derivatives with respect to t and z respectively . |
| 24 | The report criticized a number of developing countries , including China , Angola and Pakistan , for wasting resources on reckless arms spending . |
| 25 | It was known in the dairy-farming areas of south-west England that milkmaids , and others who contracted the relatively mild and non-infectious disease of cowpox through handling udders of infected cows , obtained immunity from smallpox , and in 1765 the Medical Society of London received from a Dr Fewster a paper on ‘ Cow Pox and its Ability to prevent Smallpox ’ . |
| 26 | Normally , banks are unwilling to use their funds for financing enterprises in other republics and provinces , but it seems that in this case the banks in the more prosperous parts of Yugoslavia had funds in excess of the amounts they were permitted to use for giving credits to their own customers ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 27 | Another type is problem-solving calls , such as helping owners with injured dogs ( provoking enough interest for subsequent enquiries to be made about the dog 's progress ) ; giving impromptu lessons on road safety to young children who have narrowly avoided accidents ; and dealing with arguments between neighbours ( usually over noise ) and family disputes . |
| 28 | In polymer science , however , there is yet no formal procedure for relating changes in molecular conformation to specific features of the mechanical spectrum . |
| 29 | ‘ It is impractical to say that we should set some timetable for ending discharges without any idea whether it can be achieved or not . ’ |
| 30 | I hardly think that I 'm able to run about banging doors at four o'clock in the morning . |