Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time airlines , particularly British Airways , have been bringing strong pressure to bear within the CAA 's Finance Advisory Committee ( FAC ) to reverse the present charging scheme , whereby 97.6 per cent of its AOC income comes from the Variable Charges , in favour of the majority of income being derived from the Fixed Charges element , which would then reflect the actual expenditure of effort by the CAA in respect of each company . |
| 2 | Harry Christopher has done his homework well here , shaping each phrase according to the meaning of the text . |
| 3 | The business is estimated to be doing about $200m a year , and a key attraction for the Cupertino company is that Texas sells almost exclusively through resellers , and Hewlett-Packard sees big potential in mobilising that army to take on board its own computer products as well . |
| 4 | Technically sweet and politically acceptable , it avoids accusation of moral hypocrisy by using economic arguments to appeal to self interest . |
| 5 | Attlee chided them for ignoring any notion of what the country could afford in suggesting armed forces levels , and for suggesting that cutting spending on the armed forces to £700 million would virtually immobilize them . |
| 6 | developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts . |
| 7 | Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts . |
| 8 | CD44 glycoprotein was purified from a monocyte-rich preparation of peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes by immunoaffinity chromatography using monoclonal antibody raised against CD44 , NIH44–1 ( ref. 39 ) , and applied at 1ng per well ( estimated by silver staining ) . |
| 9 | Basically it was receiving telephone calls from the public erm and using that information to put on a computer to send officers to incidents various incidents . |
| 10 | Either it 's argued that British life does n't show up well in front of a film camera , or that British filmmakers are n't capable of using that camera to probe behind the surface of things . |
| 11 | A COOKSTOWN man was remanded on bail when he appeared at the local Magistrates Court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods valued at £20,000 . |
| 12 | There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace . |
| 13 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 14 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 15 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 16 | The accusation is likely to become a test case for one of the greyest of grey areas in Silicon Valley : can a company stop its employees from forming competitive breakaway companies using technical know-how gained on the original job when , as often as not , the ideas are in their heads rather than stolen documents or pieces of equipment . |
| 17 | Now he wants to produce his own film using historic planes set in historic places like Oxford . |
| 18 | The new Masterpieces range of fabric backgrounds from Lastolite is available in a range of colourways , each reflecting rich colours taken from nature , their names , such as Larkspur , Lichen and Nightshade , reflecting this theme . |
| 19 | The new Masterpieces range of fabric backgrounds from Lastolite is available in a range of colourways , each reflecting rich colours taken from nature , their names , such as Larkspur , Lichen and Nightshade , reflecting this theme . |
| 20 | It does not cover using stolen property left in one 's father 's garage : Sanders ( 1982 ) 75 Cr App R 84 . |
| 21 | Among the ideas under consideration are : — changes to bus lanes in a bid to speed up services ; — giving buses priority at traffic lights ; — contraflow bus lanes allowing public transport to travel against the main flow of traffic in a one way street ; — measures to protect bus stops from careless motorists who park illegally . |
| 22 | Moments alone were limited to climbing his tenement stairs , smelling different cooking smells on each landing . |
| 23 | Men as well as women in British public relations today owe her a debt of gratitude for her contribution in helping British industry come to terms with public relations as a formidable management and marketing tool . |
| 24 | On July 23 Lukanov 's caretaker government adopted a decree on maintaining public order aimed at containing the " city of truth " protests ( now being copied in many towns ) but also at strikes and rallies ( principally in the southern town of Kurdzhali ) by nationalists opposed to the presence in the National Assembly of ethnic Turkish deputies [ ibid . ] . |
| 25 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 26 | Once done , he set about building this lodge to serve as a grandstand , from whose balcony he could be with family and friends and watch his hounds coursing deer across the bare miles . |
| 27 | A school enjoying high status compared with its neighbours , located in a solid middle-class area , housed in relatively new buildings and already in receipt of other resources ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) ) would be felt to have so much going for it already as to be less sympathetically considered than other schools . |
| 28 | She paused , dramatically , allowing this statement to speak for itself , which it sufficiently did , for the fact that Mrs Hanney had a television and no telephone was the focal point of the Maugham household 's scorn . |
| 29 | A programme called ‘ Puppets Against AIDS ’ is using popular media to break through cultural and racial barriers as an instrument of information . |
| 30 | Some fears can begin by seeing unpleasant things happen to others , or may be copied from other people , such as our parents . |