Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments . |
| 2 | In our chapter on literature and appendix 6 we describe ways of bringing literature to life for pupils of all abilities . |
| 3 | Case Management Application , has been developed using ImageFlow in combination with Plexus ' flagship XDP image processing software and is claimed to offer 70% of the core functionality needed to develop most vertical market imaging applications . |
| 4 | Repeated cases have convinced SAVE that allowing permission for development in the grounds of country houses must be strongly resisted . |
| 5 | As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability . |
| 6 | The fair is being sponsored by Catering Update in association with Caterer & Hotelkeeper . |
| 7 | The graphics are mean and moody , allowing freedom of exploration with the minimum of mapping , the setting is realistic and gives a real feeling of being there , and the puzzles — you 'll be scratching you head for weeks . |
| 8 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , the then Economy Minister , Néstor Rapanelli , signed a decree allowing freedom of action for foreign companies to buy into Argentina without prior government approval ; however , areas such as the media were to remain closed to foreign investment . |
| 9 | A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens . |
| 10 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 11 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 12 | Nuisance — Public — Planning permission , grant of — Local authority granting permission for development of commercial port — Movement of heavy goods vehicles on roads leading to port — Vehicles causing serious disturbance to residents — Local authority bringing action in nuisance against port authorities — Whether disturbance public nuisance |
| 13 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |
| 14 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 15 | A pair of Jacobean Dersinghams , husband and wife in about half life-size , kneeling side by side on a plinth , looked stolidly into eternity . |
| 16 | Tried using popgun after fiasco of toy cannon , he wrote , but that was too violent where other was too weak . |
| 17 | Security on the door had reported a large black man demanding entry on behalf of a friend , a Sir Ralph Grunte , Member of Parliament , who was certainly in no condition to be in charge of a motor car . |
| 18 | All global firms are balancing two competing forces : those gaining advantage from integration of their systems ; and those for becoming more responsive to differences in local demand . |
| 19 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 20 | BOVIS CONSTRUCTION have won a contract to manage a £200 million demolition and rebuilding programme in association with Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust ( HAT ) in east London . |
| 21 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 22 | Instead of gaining entry by qualification to a professional body , teachers , on becoming qualified , may join ( if they so wish ) one of six unions . |
| 23 | One gets the strong feeling that he would not ( in the unlikely event of his standing as a candidate ) have stood much chance of becoming Professor of Poetry at Oxford if Lewis and Tolkien had had anything to do with it . |
| 24 | October 19th — stock markets around the world crash , representing loss of confidence in banks . |
| 25 | " Applications … from the principal House holders of the Chapelry of Woodhead in the Parish of Mottram in Longdendale in the County of Chester … praying assistance in support of their institutions . " |
| 26 | When he left the pitch he started hurling abuse in French at the referee . |
| 27 | Both in his foreword to the Italian edition of Reading Capital and his Essays in Self Criticism ( Althusser 1976 ) , Althusser points out his own ‘ theoreticist tendency ’ in equating philosophy with science as the ‘ Theory of theoretical practice ’ ( Althusser 1976 : 124 ) . |
| 28 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 29 | Gaining insight into improvement of products and processes is more important than rigidly following rules . |
| 30 | Karen George of Blackwells said : ‘ There were one or two hotline inconsistencies , sometimes four day delivery , sometimes five ; but there were no major problems with supply , and we benefited from keeping Pole to Pole in stock . ’ |