Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , there are offences intended to prevent anyone wrongly claiming to have supplied goods to the Queen ( or to anyone else ) or wrongly claiming royal approval , e.g. by displaying an emblem resembling that of the Queen 's Award to Industry . |
| 2 | There are number of different ways in which more naturalistic studies have been conducted ranging from laboratory studies using slides and films to field studies which have recorded people 's memories for staged or naturally occurring arousing events . |
| 3 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 4 | They usually involve a combination of the following organisational arrangements : ( 1 ) The physical separation of the various departments , often extending to matters of detail such as dining arrangements ; ( 2 ) An educational programme normally recurring to emphasise the importance of not improperly or inadvertently divulging confidential information ; ( 3 ) Strict and carefully defined procedures for dealing with a situation where it is considered that the wall should be crossed and the maintaining of proper records where this occurs : ( 4 ) Monitoring by compliance officers of the effectiveness of the wall , including the monitoring of employee trading ; and ( 5 ) Disciplinary sanctions where there has been an improper breach of the wall . |
| 5 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 6 | The majority of developers are unlikely to adopt the passive role of waiting to be advised or only investigating advertised sites . |
| 7 | There seems to be a sense running through all these research reports that teachers regard boys ' behaviour in school , whether it be groaning in unison every time a girl answers a question , or physically harassing female pupils , as quite natural and inevitable . |
| 8 | Was it thinking independently , or just mouthing another phrase ? |
| 9 | In any communication and Mike used that term and this is what this is about in communication there is a gap it does n't matter whether it 's you know writing a letter making a phone call or just standing this sort of distance away . |
| 10 | you know , getting used to the feel of it , it 's alright just talking about it or just doing some calculations and just thinking , oh yeah , I can do that now , but you ca n't beat really getting down and drawing the pictures , and |
| 11 | Fancy standing back to the North Sea for ten hours or more handling cold fish ! |
| 12 | Either way , by 1933 it was evident how successful the holders of local socio-economic power had been in retaining it and in evading or openly flouting unwelcome legislation . |
| 13 | In its Fourteenth Report , Offences Against the Person , Cmnd 7844 , the Criminal Law Revision Committee proposed replacing s.18 by " intentionally " causing serious injury , s.20 by recklessly causing serious injury , and s.47 by intentionally or recklessly causing serious injury . |
| 14 | Presumably either a creditor or a debtor could commit the offence of ‘ Knowingly or recklessly giving false information to the Director ’ , which carried a penalty of £400 , two years in gaol , or both . |
| 15 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 16 | Individuals acclimatize to cold , for example , by adjusting physically , physiologically or psychologically following cold exposure . |
| 17 | Brightly-dressed children sat licking ice-creams or noisily sucking highly-coloured liquids through straws , while their parents drank coffee and ate pâtisserie . |
| 18 | It is also possible to modify the original by adding or omitting parts , or even combining different patterns into one carving . |
| 19 | If you use any mains electrical appliance or tool outdoors , or where there is a possibility of water spillage , or even using ordinary power tools indoors like drills and saws , you could be putting yourself at risk . |
| 20 | However , the greater the inherited capital stock , , the less need there will be for adding to the capital stock , or even replacing worn-out equipment . |
| 21 | Examples are searching for all occurrences of a given pattern or even comparing two students ' work where copying is suspected . |
| 22 | If anyone believed that by wearing , bestowing or even consuming particular substances it was possible to avert poison and other evils or positively to advance a cause , it was comforting enough to ensure the continuity of such beliefs . |
| 23 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 24 | Many go through a phase of biting , hitting or even bullying other children ( especially younger siblings ) . |
| 25 | Nobody would want to be seen crawling to or even making sycophantic noises with Morrissey , of all people . |
| 26 | I ca n't remember them reading any books or even having any books around the house to read . |
| 27 | Central administrators , in other words , may find it necessary to use peripheral agencies to implement their decisions , either setting these up ad hoc , using existing administrative bodies , or even integrating elected officials . |
| 28 | Nor will managers succeed by putting greater emphasis on planning or simply overlapping various stages in the development process . |
| 29 | Here is the social democrat refusing to condemn the absurdities he chronicles so well ; or simply producing half-baked observations . |
| 30 | Home monitoring is now possible using test strips either in conjunction with a meter or simply using visual assessment . |