Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half of February was much more unsettled as an area of high pressure persisted in the eastern Atlantic , allowing frontal troughs to topple over its northeastern flank into Scotland . |
| 2 | But it would be folly to repeat the mistake , made with Iraq , of allowing foreign-policy merit to blot out oppression at home . |
| 3 | * The British government was also criticized at Strasbourg for allowing Scottish fishermen to cull up to 5,000 seals annually . |
| 4 | By using different ways to add up the forces on each star from the infinite number of other stars in the universe , one can get different answers to the question of whether the stars can remain at constant distances from each other . |
| 5 | As mentioned earlier the current government ( 1987 ) is set to increase consumerism in education by allowing popular schools to take in as many pupils as possible without the requirement on the part of LEAs to balance intake among schools . |
| 6 | Lower down in the division , Brentwood St Albans secured their second win of the Vauxhall season by defeating bottom-placed Harpenden to move up to within a point of second-placed Puma Welwyn City . |
| 7 | One of the worst effects of massive manufacturing industry was the employment of young children in the factories for up to fifteen hours a day , when the huge slump in hand-loom weaving forced parents to live off their children . |
| 8 | But increasing despondency about the impracticality of using hired machines to carry out orders made her persevere , and the advice of friends and a local engineering firm convinced her it was worth bidding for . |
| 9 | Kenneth Baker , the Secretary of State for Education , met with opposition to his proposals to weaken the structure of state education , notably by allowing comprehensive schools to opt out of the secondary system , and by giving more powers to parents in running schools , a latent veto for the middle-class . |
| 10 | Besotted Bill spent £50,000 hiring private detectives to track down 67-year-old Anne after she left their Channel Islands home in Guernsey in 1990 . |
| 11 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |
| 12 | The actual reduction could be as much as 33 per cent , he estimates , causing large areas to dry up . |
| 13 | , A lack of qualified engineers is causing long delays to mount up in the programme of strengthening road bridges , which needs to be carried out ahead of the introduction of 40-tonne lorries , scheduled for 1998 . |
| 14 | The Foreign Secretary is urging local firms to step up their efforts to sell their products abroad . |
| 15 | The currents so produced can create havoc , even causing whole plants to shut down . |
| 16 | In developing surreptitious techniques to break up the beat monotony , superiors were not always what they seemed . |
| 17 | We sat shaking for some minutes before regaining sufficient composure to drive on . |
| 18 | Now the company is warning potential purchasers to pay up or else . |
| 19 | The treatment , called photoradiation therapy , solves some of the problems with using conventional lasers to cut out tumours , and is more accurate than radiation therapy . |
| 20 | This had some value , leading old ladies to get up and give me their seat on public transport . |
| 21 | A new law on foreign investment was passed , abolishing restrictions on the repatriation of profits and foreign ownership of Bulgarian companies , and permitting foreign investors to set up their own enterprises in the country . |
| 22 | Using reasonable force to break up a fight would , either way , not be unlawful , whereas pushing a pupil back into line most probably would be . |
| 23 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 24 | The ministers amended the terms of the ASEAN industrial joint-venture ( AIJV ) plan to include allowing non-ASEAN investors to hold up to 60 per cent of equity . |
| 25 | They debated more precise targeting of benefits , and persuading high earners to opt out of the state pension . |
| 26 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 27 | The block lies within the Con Son Basin and is located 15 kms north of the 500 million barrel Dai Hung oilfield for which PetroVietnam is currently evaluating international bids to bring on production . |
| 28 | In France , bitter political divisions , fear of foreign military entanglement and deference towards Britain forced Blum and the Popular Front government to reverse their initial policy of assisting the Republic and instead embrace non-intervention in the sincere hope of persuading other powers to keep out of Spain too . |
| 29 | He expressed concern that he was not getting sufficient sleep to carry out work as a driver , to which he hoped to return shortly . |
| 30 | Using artificial light to break up a long night into two short ones promotes the flowering of long-day plants and hinders the flowering of short-day ones . |