Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |
| 2 | Earnings analysis is concerned with forecasting the future earnings patterns of firms . |
| 3 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 4 | Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 5 | Sheffield Wednesday are among those pursuing the former QPR player-manager . |
| 6 | There were soon Catfish , Abalone and Conch Shell Alliances pursuing the marine life tag . |
| 7 | There is nothing more ‘ automatic ’ than the perfect housewife , mechanically pursuing the same routine day in and day out . |
| 8 | Children in an orphanage in the Romanian town of Sighisoara were becoming ill after sucking the old lead paint on the cots . |
| 9 | Now he 's back , ridiculing the sausage-machine interview set-up . |
| 10 | That may be Morrissey ridiculing the entire music business , cheapening it even , but , in doing so , he was merely ridiculing himself . |
| 11 | ‘ Peterborough ’ , the Daily Telegraph 's columnist , was probably not alone in ridiculing the 1942 Beveridge Report 's idea of marriage as a partnership , which he referred to as ‘ Cupid 's team ’ . |
| 12 | Yeltsin announced that he would mediate in talks between the two sides over Dnestr 's future , and both presidents appealed to Ukraine to co-operate in allowing the Russian troop withdrawals from Moldova through its territory . |
| 13 | Varying expected tenure of jobs for various groups of individuals is modelled by allowing the effective discount rate to change . |
| 14 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 15 | PDGF induces dimerization allowing the two kinase domains to phosphorylate each other on specific tyrosine residues ( Y ) which provide docking sites responsible for interacting with different members of the SH2 family . |
| 16 | To some extent , it means allowing the Great Mother archetype to flourish within ourselves . |
| 17 | The package cost $5,100 million , to be financed by compensatory revenues of $2,600 million gained from closing a loophole for wealthy taxpayers who make quarterly income tax payments , $880 million from maintaining the unemployment tax at 0.08 per cent ( instead of allowing the scheduled drop to 0.06 percent ) , and $1,700 million from allowing the Internal Revenue Service to continue to withold tax refunds from people who had defaulted on student loans . |
| 18 | He played a controlled , holding game in mid-field , allowing the German Thomas Doll to take a more attacking role . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 20 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 21 | This further provoked the students , who resumed their march along Changan Avenue , halting the early morning traffic and disrupting the centre of Beijing . |
| 22 | She went to the stone sink , scrubbed her hands under the single cold tap and set off on her perambulations again , slowly circling the big pine table , moving in and out of the gibbous pool of light shed by the candles . |
| 23 | To further demonstrate that the sequences encompassing the 80 bp fragment are able to bind proteins in a sequence-specific manner , we synthesized oligonucleotides corresponding to footprint I plus 5 bp flanking regions on each side ( see materials and methods ) as well as another oligonucleotide ( oligo III ) corresponding to the sequence distance between Δ72 and Δ73 , which deletion decreases transcription sharply ( see figures 1 and 2B ) . |
| 24 | The secure DCE code , encompassing the remote procedure call mechanism , security , cell directory , threads and timing services ( to which USL and SNI also added X.500 ) , still lacks the key distributed file system . |
| 25 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 26 | Contacting the other s ide 's witnesses |
| 27 | On contacting the 359th Fighter Group Association , we were surprised to find that 42–106929 did not appear in the Group 's official history , which listed Lt Ferris 's crash , but not his aircraft . |
| 28 | ‘ It tells me nothing about my children , and I should n't have to keep contacting the Social Work Department to find out how they are . |
| 29 | Where the plaintiff is paralysed , valuable advice and evidence as to appliances and nursing and other assistance can be obtained by contacting the Spinal Injuries Association of 5 Crowndale Road , London NW1 . |
| 30 | Priority booking can be arranged for staff by contacting the public affairs department at John Wood House . |