Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reservoirs behave as imperfectly elastic containers , expanding and contracting to accommodate fluxes of melt . |
| 2 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 3 | ‘ Then how do you explain the fact that the kidnappers phoned urgently , demanding to see Ubaldo in person , at a time when you were still in Rome and no one supposedly knew you were coming except the authorities ? ’ |
| 4 | Now the 1989 market is opening to trumpet blasts of hype about the vintage of the century , expected price rises and heavy worldwide demand . |
| 5 | But I must say I 'm very encouraged to see the numbers of women who are applying to do subjects like chemistry and physics is going up and certainly we would applaud that sort of activity . |
| 6 | Mr Nelson , 49 and Miss Folan denied one charge relating to separate areas of land used for car parking . |
| 7 | Pedalling to break chain of poverty |
| 8 | The woman cyclist was another object of fearful contemplation , and there were snide allusions to the improper ‘ rational costumes ’ women were adopting to facilitate travel by bike , as well as their recklessness in traffic . |
| 9 | If agent provocateurs had been endeavouring to make trouble between Official and Provisional IRA , it would have been the ideal weapon to use . |
| 10 | While the institutions most usually approached for funding here ( The Arts Council , RTE , Commercial business ) are n't clamouring to pour money into film , both Giannaris and Gibbons feel that with persistence and imagination ( albeit in voluminous quantities ! ) the now microscopic organism may eventually become multi-cellular . |
| 11 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 12 | It made no pretence of catering to faddish tastes like vegetarianism or high fibre diets . |
| 13 | It is the legacy of the worst drought since 1745 and increasing water extraction by the Three Valleys Water Company seeking to meet demand from industry and homes . |
| 14 | Morden , Surrey-based Short Term Rental Systems Ltd can now offer UK customers what it reckons is a unique combined hardware and software personal computer rental service , thanks to a series of agreements with WordStar International Inc , Microsoft Corp , BitStream Inc and Lotus Development Corp : users are offered a combination of Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc machines ready-loaded with the software of their choice — an 80486 machine with colour monitor , inkjet printer , WordStar word processor and Lotus spreadsheet will cost £135 ; 24 hour support is also available from Bushey , Hertfordshire-based Professional Support Centre ; the service is aimed at ‘ Small-Office-Home-Office ’ users , large corporates wanting to hire machines for project work , and hotels , exhibition and conference organisers wishing to hire out facilities to clients ; rental , naturally , has been viewed with suspicion by software companies anxious about piracy — Short Term Rental has got round this by removing the installation commands from the software it rents so preventing users from copying . |
| 15 | Rawsthorne had clear reasons for wanting to tackle Women In Love . |
| 16 | Not such good news from one of the original players in this arena though , Mac-on-RISC house Quorum Software Systems Inc , Menlo Park , California , has filed suit against Apple seeking to counter allegations of patent and copyright infringement made by Apple . |
| 17 | Mac-on-RISC house Quorum Software Systems Inc , Menlo Park , California , last week filed a suit against Apple Computer Inc seeking to counter allegations of patent and copyright infringement made by Apple . |
| 18 | But local authorities are generally empowered to make regulations and by-laws for the use of public places where meetings might be held ( such as parks and squares ) , and the assertion of quasi-private property rights are generally sufficient to exclude the claims of those seeking to exercise rights of freedom of speech in public . |
| 19 | It is submitted , therefore , that s3 is capable of applying to clauses which define duties , at least where the clause defines the duties in a way contrary to what a reasonable person would expect in the absence of the term in question , and the drafter should assume that it will apply to all clauses which exclude or limit liability for breach of contract , or allow a party to alter the nature of performance ( see also the attitude of Bridge LJ to clauses seeking to avoid liability for misrepresentation in Cremdean Properties Ltd v Nash ( 1977 ) 244 EG 547 , examined in Chapter 8,2 ) . |
| 20 | Furthermore , by refusing to generate obligations outside exchange relations , it favours uninhibited development of the forces of production without regard to the social costs imposed by injuries to third parties , pollution , health care and unemployment . |
| 21 | Notably , in an unscheduled address to the Congress on May 23 , Gorbachev had rounded on Yeltsin 's Russian sovereignty proposals by accusing him of " seeking to separate Russia from socialism " and of implicitly advocating the breakup of the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | ‘ She knew that it was connected with Matthew wanting to build houses on land adjoining Maurice 's pottery . |
| 23 | He argues that , in seeking to protect children from poverty , AFDC has eased the financial strain of raising children alone ; so more women do so . |
| 24 | Crime — Practice — Prosecution , discontinuance of — Prosecution witness confirming defence statement — Prosecution offering no further evidence — Judge refusing to allow discontinuance of prosecution — Whether judge entitled to call remaining witnesses |
| 25 | Opportunities to enter into contracts with providers outside Grampian exist and practices are looking to develop services in house . |
| 26 | They do n't all have the same erm facilities as Sussex , nor indeed the same tradition of town and gown relationships , but nevertheless within the university there are several groups of people wanting to develop ideas of literature festivals or performance arts events , which we try and encourage because erm we have very little money within the Arts Association and have to maximise whatever facilities and people that we can lay our hands on . |
| 27 | At times it has behaved more like a cancer-prevention than an environmental agency , making such scientifically dubious decisions as wanting to remove asbestos from school buildings and to ban substances with a microscopically small risk of causing cancer . |
| 28 | Drift-net vessels , like the tuna boats fishing on dolphins , have long been stubbornly refusing to take observers on board . |
| 29 | For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God . |
| 30 | Seeking to achieve equality of opportunity |