Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we are erm continuously forecasting for the Gas and Electricity Authorities . |
| 2 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 3 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 4 | On a final , poignant note , I notice a large arrow sticking through the front and rear of the house . |
| 5 | One pupil , sitting in the coveted position alongside the radiator , is gazing through the window and into the distance . |
| 6 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 7 | I joined in on Laura 's side with Edward as pig-in-the-middle , windmilling for the hat that sailed like a Frisbee between us , until we collapsed , panting with laughter , then stared in silence at the sea . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 9 | He was fumbling for a handkerchief as she hurried up . |
| 10 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 11 | Just as she , Fru Møller , was adjusting to the need for a doctor and the possibility of a corpse at The Tamarisks , the same Miss Danziger did the rounds of the tables apologising for the shock and upset she had caused . |
| 12 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 13 | Apologising for the fact that the audited accounts for the past year were not yet available , the Hon. |
| 14 | Lagerfeld has temporarily switched off , leafing through a magazine and soliciting opinions on each advertisement , each editorial page , and being rude about them . |
| 15 | When considering commodities that are ‘ inferior ’ ( in terms of quantity demanded as income rises ) , the in-kind transfer may be a more rational choice of instrument , allowing for the possibility that ‘ ineligible ’ individuals may attempt to make false claims on government assistance . |
| 16 | Secondly , and allowing for the possibility that our global score might have detected minor increases in the mucosal neutrophils in some cases of mild active duodenitis , the number of patients with heavy neutrophilic infiltration ( severe active duodenitis ) was also greater in the absence of NSAIDs . |
| 17 | On paper their bowling looks a trifle thin , particularly with regard to the demands of the Britannic Assurance County Championship , even allowing for the wit and wisdom of Messrs Hughes and Botham . |
| 18 | Even allowing for the probability that Time was no non-stop streamliner , faring ever forward at the same speed every day of creation , some fresh interruption of Nature must have occurred to explain its present serpentine course . |
| 19 | With women , even allowing for the fact that slides of material from three sites , urethra , cervix , and rectum may be examined , this early diagnosis is only possible in about 50 per cent of cases . |
| 20 | However , even allowing for the fact that the population and satellite data were collected 13 years apart , the differences are greater than we would have liked . |
| 21 | It is reasonable to suppose that this fact is significant , even allowing for the fact that Scaevola is disproportionately well represented in the Digest by cases on the law of succession . |
| 22 | Even allowing for the fact that not all BL Lac objects produce X-rays , Schwartz and Ku conclude that the statistics rule out the idea that BL Lac objects are simply ordinary quasars seen ‘ beam-on ’ . |
| 23 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 24 | If the price of a money market instrument rises then the yield falls , and this is indeed the case with bankers ' acceptances , which are normally cheaper than straight cash advances , even allowing for the fact that interest is paid upfront . |
| 25 | Even allowing for the fact that NT has not yet been tuned for speed or reached production release , Brown says there appears to be additional overhead incurred when executing Windows 3.1 applications under NT . |
| 26 | Even allowing for the fact that television programmes are necessarily selective choosing shocking cases to illustrate the point , and also allowing for the evident confusion with the programme caused by pre-1 April material combined with a post-1 April dialogue , some disturbing situations were illustrated . |
| 27 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 28 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 29 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 30 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |