Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might also be worthwhile buying packs of d.i.l. integrated circuit holders , or bulk buying the smaller types . |
| 2 | And executives say they will decide by the end of March whether to ground up to 25 DC-10s or stop leasing a similar number of Airbus A300s . |
| 3 | If you burn or scald yourself , immediately immerse the affected part in cold water for as long as possible , or keep putting a cold , wet pad over it . |
| 4 | Similarly , France had to accept some relaxation in its position or risk seeing the five go ahead by themselves : the latter option would undoubtedly see a reduction in French influence as well as the likelihood of the five soliciting British membership . |
| 5 | ARSENAL manager George Graham was last night urged to start playing Anders Limpar regularly or risk finishing a second successive season without a trophy . |
| 6 | If you would like to join us please telephone or write stating the appropriate reference number to the Personnel Department , National Rivers Authority , Thames Region , Kings Meadow House , Kings Meadow Road , Reading , Berks RG DQ . |
| 7 | This is a particular risk also with stakes — when wind blow rocks the plant or stake , there is a likelihood of the stem or stake opening a funnel-shaped hole around itself as it rocks and compresses the soil . |
| 8 | Publishers have stepped up their involvement in stand-alone puzzle titles recently , with German publisher Bauer converting its bi-monthly Take A Puzzle to monthly this week and Gruner & Jahr distributing a planned rival monthly , Puzzle Challenge , produced by Redgate Publishing . |
| 9 | And if you want to run a business that involves shipping an unwieldy machine across Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , servicing orders from London , New York and Japan , and travelling to Glasgow and London to seek commissions from the smartest fashion houses , then Back Road in Stromness is probably as good a place as any to do it from . |
| 10 | However to take no action would be worse than to risk insulting the dead . |
| 11 | In 1991 Darren started a job that involved covering a huge business mileage but did n't provide a company car . |
| 12 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 13 | About 12 months ago , ICL Technology chief Jurgen Olschewski could neither envisage revenue growth nor imagine hitting the previous year 's profit levels . |
| 14 | Any insect that arrives bearing the wrong smell is instantly attacked . |
| 15 | rather than keep using the big tins for the school . |
| 16 | By this time , the trade was completely unionized , and the existence of the women 's section of the union gave the group a certain coherence and identity ; so much so that to avoid overloading the present chapter , the union 's creation and activity is discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 17 | The clear message sent is that voters have lost faith in existing governing parties that enjoyed riding the long boom of the 1980s , but have no policies for a post-Berlin Wall Europe . |
| 18 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 19 | He was n't all that sorry to find an urgent message from Headquarters that meant leaving the glutinous pasta . |
| 20 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 21 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 22 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 23 | And er that means adopting the current market . |
| 24 | Nor does assigning a 15-Mton incident comet an anomalously low asteroid-like velocity of 15kms -1 allow it to penetrate below 16km before it is completely ablated . |
| 25 | In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ . |
| 26 | We have made it clear that bids involving a substantial degree of employee participation will receive a preference . |
| 27 | Knowing what your best colours are and what styles will suit your figure can open up a whole new wardrobe — and make shopping a great deal easier . |
| 28 | Never ever use scourers or coarse cleaning pads as this will scratch the stainless steel surface and make cleaning an arduous task in the future . |
| 29 | During the third phase , lasting two weeks , you will follow a diet that allows you to feel really healthy and to continue losing the unwanted pounds and inches . |
| 30 | This usually takes 10–20 minutes and involves discussing the broader implications of the medical plan . |