Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results , presented in Table 2 , show that allowing the extra sources of income to matter ( Model 4 ) produces very different results from Model 1 and Model 5 ( where the extra income is assumed not to matter ) . |
| 2 | Agency working , again a relatively " traditional " form of temporary working , has also been vigorously rejected by unions , partly because of its association with the fee-charging private placement bureaux ( which many agencies simultaneously are ) to which they object as undermining the public employment service [ see Chapter 5 ] . |
| 3 | Speaker K's contribution ‘ picks up ’ the past time element , moving closer to speaker J's time while maintaining the personal reference in my father , who also did work ( stonemason ) comparable to J's ( bricklayer ) and received money for this work . |
| 4 | I 've seen how Dickie 's pals look when taking the eleven plus , and it makes me so mad , Jo ! |
| 5 | At TAC we take the services we offer architectural specifiers very seriously indeed , because we know that supplying the best products is not in itself enough . |
| 6 | Many commercial brands are available — remember that buying the larger size container saves money . |
| 7 | " That 's the stuff to give the troops , " he would invariably say , curving back moist lips to the mugs brim and gulping the hot liquid down as if his throat were asbestos . |
| 8 | Perhaps what they are doing at present is coming together on issues that are essentially unproblematic and secure whilst leaving the deep differences untouched . |
| 9 | At Barclays we understand that choosing the right savings account to suit your own particular needs can be confusing . |
| 10 | This was not a dreary exercise : rabbinical students feel that chanting the sacred words reveals the inner music to the soul and learning something ‘ by heart ’ — a revealing phrase — helps one to interiorise it and make it one 's own . |
| 11 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 12 | As to implementation , it said that " experts agree that meeting the new recommendations will require considerable time and expense " . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that abolishing the upper earnings limit would hit well over 3 million people — for instance , policemen , health service workers and those in seasonal occupations — merely because overtime bonuses or profit-related pay would take their earnings over the average in any particular week ? |
| 14 | The researchers conclude that this may in time result in a depleted population of effectively " domesticated " rhinos , and warn that losing the genetic input of the wilder rhinos would have a dangerous impact on the gene pool . |
| 15 | In this situation capital inflows should increase and capital outflows decrease because buying the domestic currency now would provide capital account transactors with a potential capital gain . |
| 16 | The next problem is that of the capital-output ratio , since output is measured as Y in the Harrod model and not W. And the same problems arise when determining the aggregate production function . |
| 17 | We estimate that abolishing the lower earnings limit would cost business around £175 million a year in extra national insurance contributions . |
| 18 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 19 | The field lines , as expected , refract when entering the dielectric ( for a mathematical solution in terms of Images , see Clemmow ( 1973 ) ) . |
| 20 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 21 | ‘ Then we attach the new care assistant to a member of staff , not necessarily the most experienced , but someone whom we see as having the right attitude to the residents . |
| 22 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |