Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final tier , external courses , involves hiring the expertise of outside agencies for training in matters as diverse as sales skills , credit control , first aid , fork lift truck driving and foreign languages . |
| 2 | The degree of sorting of a sediment is dependent on the size range of the supplied grains , the mode of deposition ( for example , whether wave reworking or current deposition ) , the current characteristics ( predominantly strength ) and the time involved in deposition . |
| 3 | Not only do we find Lord Sumner in this case denying that elected members ‘ are to be guided by their personal opinions on political , economic , or social questions in administering the funds which they derive from levying rates ’ but Lord Atkinson denounces the councillors for being guided ‘ by some eccentric principles of socialistic philanthropy , or by a femininist ambition to secure equality of the sexes in the world of wages ’ . |
| 4 | The defendants ( who had admitted negligence ) had increased the risk of particular damage occurring and that damage had occurred . |
| 5 | The major difference between theorem proving and other forms of monotonic search is just the choice of basic operators . |
| 6 | However , in most of what follows , we shall treat theorem proving and other cases of monotonic search as if they were the same . |
| 7 | Some of the oil companies operating in the UK disputed the British Gas view of the future suggesting that abundant reserves exist in the southern part of the North Sea and maintained that the reason a shortfall was in prospect was British Gas 's disinclination to pay suppliers the same price for UK produced gas as for imported gas . |
| 8 | Wagner was in effect suggesting that public sector services and products are ‘ normal ’ , with high income elasticities of demand . |
| 9 | Some studies , however , have shown no correlation between faecal fat excretion and faecal bile acid loss suggesting that additional factors are responsible for bile acid malabsorption in cystic fibrosis . |
| 10 | Similar experiments on rabbit oesophagus , which is devoid of submucosal glands , failed to show alkali secretion suggesting that these glands are the source of oesophageal alkalinisation . |
| 11 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 12 | Additional features include : an external heel counter , variable width lacing and full slip lasting for optimum flexibility . |
| 13 | Most of the protocol ( steps 1 , 2 , and 4 ) can be further automated by robotic handling of colony/plaque picking and reagent dispensing . |
| 14 | The services are very simple with the priest celebrating and two acolytes serving . |
| 15 | Conventional heuristic-based fuzzy logic systems can not learn and fail to work with many complex applications , the company says , noting that NeuFuz4 gets round the problem by using proprietary new defuzzification , rule inferencing and antecedent processing algorithms based on a modified back propagation algorithm . |
| 16 | In purchasing costs , stock holding and direct production costs . |
| 17 | A significant cost cutting programme was introduced which , combined with improved production resulting from a successful infill drilling and well recompletion programme , has helped alleviate the production decline and extend the economic life of the PSC . |
| 18 | Among the tests were the WAIS-R , Wechsler Memory Scale , Wechsler Digit symbol , Wisconsin card sorting and facial recognition . |
| 19 | A reader from Crook , County Durham , writes to The Northern Echo complaining that some shops are being unfairly allocated double rations of eggs . |
| 20 | A new suspension system has been developed for the car , and it also features a four-wheel steering system along with four-wheel anti lock braking and electronic traction control . |
| 21 | With many businesses waiting up to two-three months for payment , and research showing that many companies fail through poor cash flow , factoring is a very important service to industry . |
| 22 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 23 | One could overlook the slack pacing and low joke-count of The Folks That Live On The Hill . |
| 24 | R. A. Rasmussen and M. A. K. Khalil , of Oregon Graduate Center in Beaverton , Oregon , recently reported a study showing that one termite produces 0.9 micrograms of methane per day . |
| 25 | These are non-statutory rules made by the Inland Revenue stipulating when full tax liability will not be enforced . |
| 26 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 27 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 28 | School librarians can help their users to prepare for the complexities of the future and using viewdata in the school library can provide an introduction to the concepts of organization and interrogation of information which will play a part in the future working and domestic lives of today 's pupils . |
| 29 | End of edition one , leaving at least one watcher feeling that three items in five minutes was an excessively sketchy menu . |
| 30 | This is best carried out after the skin brushing and aromatic bath routine . |