Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 2 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 3 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 4 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 5 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 6 | An essay on the pitfalls of including political words in a dictionary is wildly funny . |
| 7 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 8 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 9 | The United States has succeeded in turning a politically-isolated , murderous tyrant into a heroic myth before the liberation of Kuwait has even begun , while waging total war against the civilian society of Iraq , whose citizens are no more responsible for the war than you or me . |
| 10 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 11 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 13 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 14 | The whole of Holland , for example , was to be covered by SO 2 sensors at different heights , feeding into a computerized system drawing iso-concentration lines on a map of the country . |
| 15 | It rises , drawing exhausted air from the central galleries and the deeper parts of the hill , creating a circulation . |
| 16 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 17 | Giving the Town hall back to the people of Ealing was achieved by re-locating administrative staff in an adjacent building , and using the space thus created for lettable function rooms . |
| 18 | The Reagan forces were also alert to the possibilities of using administrative discretion as a means of policy change . |
| 19 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 20 | Having failed at playing God 's warrior against modernity and communism in the field , he turned his prose to revisiting Brideshead , inventing fictional survivals of a mythic Catholic-aristocratic past . |
| 21 | ‘ The government will co-operate with your council to uncover the various facades of financial corruption and will not tolerate corruption or lax behaviour , ’ he declared , drawing loud applause from the packed public galleries . |
| 22 | Others , although sympathetic , were hard put to explain his lack of caution in pursuing hopeless cases through the courts and providing the Federation with such ample material with which to plot his downfall . |
| 23 | In section 6.1 , we referred to the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s and we pointed out that one explanation for this involves bringing inflationary expectations into the argument . |
| 24 | Naming specific experts in the expert clause may allow an awkward party to create insoluble deadlock : see 10.3.3 . |
| 25 | The government claimed that UNITA was stalling whilst awaiting United States congressional discussions on military aid budgets , while , for its part , UNITA alleged that the government was preparing an all-out military strike against its forces along the Angola-Namibia border , using Namibian airstrips with the co-operation of the Namibian government . |
| 26 | Outlining Book Tokens promotional plans , Mr Thin said that this year , in addition to press advertising , Book Tokens would have 80 spots on radio , using Classic FM in the week before Christmas . |
| 27 | Consequently in 1835 the Geological Survey of Great Britain was established by the government for the purpose of producing geological maps of the country to be based on the Ordnance Survey maps as they became available . |
| 28 | With a horse , I had a horse then , and er there u there used to be er there used to be three or four of us there with horses and we we used to The the the From the coal face there used to be all individual horses bringing odd tubs into a turnout What we called a turner which was a collection of different tubs you see ? |
| 29 | One of the resident theatre companies at the Old Museum , Out and Out , devised the show using extensive research on the situation of hostages and former hostages , including John McCarthy and Brian Keenan . |
| 30 | It would work by using genetically-engineered parts of the HIV virus to inject healthy people . |