Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Which feelings do you habitually suppress , or deny having at all ? |
2 | The aims of the programme : to establish the location of foreign ethnographic material in museums , universities , research institutes and private collections ; to encourage and coordinate the recording of information about their collections by in-house museum staff ; to record collections or organise recording by other specialists in cases where no professional staff are available to undertake the work ; to establish a computerised database for the recorded information and to publish the findings of the survey . |
3 | Or keep working past 65 and postpone drawing your pension . |
4 | Enjoy a traditional pub lunch or go shopping in familiar named stores in the busy Main Street . |
5 | I am either out at the moment or busy working on some scripts and do n't want to talk right now . |
6 | A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls . |
7 | Basically , the system comprises twin-tube dampers that operate according to three different settings — comfort , medium and sport , which is manually selectable by the driver . |
8 | Come , Sylvia , we 've better things to do than go chasing after that silly rabble . |
9 | After 25 years of hard use , JA 11 still has little or no creaking nor scuttle shaking on any reasonable surface and it is both light and delightfully precise . |
10 | However , as has been pointed out by Hills , there are four main factors that affect learning in practical situations : motivation , activity , understanding , feedback . |
11 | Meanwhile professional advisers , both directly and through their managers , address changes that affect prescribing in primary care with regional health authorities , purchasers , and providers ; among these changes will be better information systems between secondary and primary care so that patients being discharged into the community have their medicines available and that ‘ at risk ’ patients are identified : pharmaceutical services must follow the patient . |
12 | It is , therefore , highly likely that waste arising from Scottish reactors will eventually be disposed of in England . |
13 | We would welcome a system of licensing which allowed private clubs to apply for all-night music and dance licensing in suitable venues . |
14 | However , his finance director , James Kerr-Muir , revealed that it will lead to a £900 million goodwill write-off for Kingfisher and push gearing above 60 per cent . |
15 | It can help us explain why the entrenched and the familiar can suddenly appear conditional and temporary , and inject meaning into those long-forgotten disputes which are bubbling to the surface , especially within the Soviet bloc . |
16 | Community groups in many parts of the country have trained staff who will install insulation and fit draughtproofing at little or no cost for people on low incomes . |
17 | The deal increased Kwik-Fit 's asset base and cut gearing to 20 per cent . |
18 | impersonal nature : employees work full time within the impersonal rules and regulations and act according to formal , impersonal procedures ; |
19 | Risk selection by large insurers and cost shifting by federal and state agencies leave lower and middle income families paying a larger share of the bill . |
20 | His role as peacemaker came about while working as an electricity consultant and economist developing ten year energy projects to boost Third World economies and stop fighting between neighbouring countries . |
21 | We must work towards a wider range of ‘ acceptable ’ lesbian and gay images , and stop colluding with restrictive definitions . |
22 | Furthermore , it provides the beginnings of a theory which discriminates between responses which offer short-term emotional comfort for people and changes in technology and economy which produce real gains in human happiness and lessen suffering in this life . |
23 | This week they will be advertising for one or two extra staff and anticipate moving to bigger premises by the end of the summer , if business continues to boom at the same rate , possibly in the Manningtree area . |
24 | For example , if you start your period every 23 to 32 days , you should count forward 11 days and begin testing on that day . |
25 | Swiftair items receive priority treatment and separate sorting in this country and in over 140 countries worldwide . |
26 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is in talks with Hewlett-Packard Co on the formation of a joint venture in the area of telecommunications network management and control according to Swedish sources whose information has not been denied by the protagonists . |
27 | Importing data using these systems will save money by reducing the amount of background reading and literature searching needed , and by cutting costs of map and overlay printing for specific areas . |
28 | If in future , however , reporting of each estimate is extended to include descriptive profiles of quality of life — that is , health states and the valuations placed on them for the new and comparison treatment — then this may enhance credibility and allow reworking in alternative settings . |
29 | Spider Systems Ltd , Edinburgh has added the SpiderBrouter R360 to its line of bridge-routers , as part of its Boundary Routing system : the R360 offers IP and IPX routing with simultaneous bridging of all other protocols ; a Multilink feature enables load balancing across dual links to a SpiderBrouter R360 or a SpiderBridge R285 ; it will be out in April ; no word yet on price . |
30 | If you are at work all the time and find fitting in regular exercise rather difficult , then invest in an exercise bike or a rowing machine . |