Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem should be solved after 1994 , when the Salon will have moved to the Grand Palais , and go two-yearly — alternating with the Biennale des Antiquaires . |
| 2 | for example , ICI does n't have a chief executive and operates on a consensus basis with the chairman acting as a primus inter pares . |
| 3 | The civil servant is simply acting as the alter ego of the minister . |
| 4 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 5 | At the British Army Training Unit Suffield ( BATUS ) , not far from Calgary in western Canada , a detachment of twenty-five men from 6 Armoured Workshop 's Forward Repair Group ( FRG ) is being kept busy looking after the 17/ 2lst Lancers battlegroup engaged in Exercise Gazala , the climax of their live firing exercises . |
| 6 | The rationale used by the Court was that of estoppel : by acquiescing in the de facto extension of the powers of the organisation treaty parties had become estopped from denying its effectiveness . |
| 7 | of a person and need to write how important it was , the little ones in the accident book , but looking in the erm erm the handbook for the company it says that an accident form should be filled in and |
| 8 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 9 | Gerald , pretending to a savoir faire he did not possess ; ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in … ’ |
| 10 | I fall silent , bowing to the status quo . |
| 11 | But at the moment I 'm really pushing on the er erm portrait photography cos I 'm quite good at that . |
| 12 | First , as we have already noticed , Althusser 's account must somehow explain the enormous variety of beliefs and judgments , many of them damaging to the status quo , that are found in capitalist societies ( and others , for that matter ) . |
| 13 | At the time of Jacques le Romain 's birth on 29 September 1673 ( his given name was Jacques Martinsee document 2 ) Martin and his father , Jean , were living at the Enclos du palais sur la petite porte at the sign of the musette . |
| 14 | Erm looking at the er a a a at the figures on those erm you 've got , if , if we include the m the mortgage policy , you 've got about eighty thousand pounds worth of life cover |
| 15 | Sheppard still intends swimming at the Grand Prix Superfinal as a guest competitor as she continues the build-up towards the National Championships in Sheffield in June ; a meet which is vital as regards selection for the European Championships , also to be held in Sheffield , in August . |
| 16 | Somebody nodded and s that way and said it was n't agreed but er it is actually anybody who 's going on a bona fide training course organized by their respective union , the T U C er a local college or whatever , a shop , a shop registered shop steward does get paid release for that er training . |
| 17 | The popular classes , strolling on the grands boulevards , could observe the dining practices , previously invisible to them , of the bourgeoisie in sidewalk restaurants . |
| 18 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 19 | all that money that they keep demanding from the er th wa th wa the firms and such like that ought to have been ploughed back into the firm ! |
| 20 | But before you even think about rest you 'll be eager to soak up the special intimate atmosphere of Sunwing — chatting at the bars , tucking into the superb breakfast buffet , eating in the à la carte restaurant or having a pool-side snack , the emphasis is on fun and friendliness . |
| 21 | To govern rather than merely preside , to bring about meaningful policy change as distinct from tinkering with the status quo , a president must establish a productive relationship with congress . |
| 22 | In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo . |
| 23 | A successful Home Secretary needs enough versatility and openness of mind to listen to what is said before making a choice between tinkering with the status quo and the more radical alternatives which are open to him . |
| 24 | He is suffering from a crise de nervos , as is usual towards the end of the week , when everyone is anxious because there 's nothing to eat . |
| 25 | Coming from the Tel Quel camp , which , under Philippe Sollers 's leadership , was pushing experimentation even further , Ricardou sought to contest the referentiality of the nouveau roman . |
| 26 | ( Unless , that is , one is starting from an a priori stance that the church can not , in such a fundamental matter , have erred . ) |
| 27 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |
| 28 | Once the European law is made , therefore , Parliament 's function is confined to reacting to a fait accompli , perhaps by chastising a Minister for acquiescing in its making , perhaps by pressing him to seek change . |
| 29 | It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all . |
| 30 | SET menus or buffets always offer better value than choosing from the a la carte menu . |