Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make regular water changes using conditioned water and occasionally some more ‘ starter ’ |
| 2 | Rather than seeing political struggle as ultimately reflecting class struggle , the liberal tradition credits the leading actors in the historical drama with an independence and causative importance of their own . |
| 3 | Councillor Sandra Plummer from Camden and the Socialist Lesbian Group , speaking in one of the plenary sessions , argued that socialists have got to stop seeing lesbian liberation as just a civil liberties issue . |
| 4 | He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies . |
| 5 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 6 | A crucial part of the change is a personal development plan which is being put together for every individual , so that they can grow their skills and knowledge gaining extra reward and externally recognised National Vocational Qualifications . |
| 7 | Family health services authorities have spent considerable effort defining not only a role in purchasing primary care but also working in tandem with district health authorities to begin discussions about extending purchasing across the interface between primary and secondary care . |
| 8 | They impose a particular perspective on the period , albeit one that is often ignored , because it does not provide a narrative framework for understanding late Roman and early Merovingian history . |
| 9 | This work was not merely a move towards understanding molecular bonding but also the material for an entire branch of chemistry . |
| 10 | The transsexual is one who utterly and completely rejects his biological sex , seeing personal fulfilment and even survival as possible only through the assumption in as complete a way as possible of the sex to which he feels he really belongs . |
| 11 | She brought a pile of cards that the children had made , using brightly-coloured paper and even the glitter tubes rationed out at Christmas . |
| 12 | ‘ The Counterforce ’ — the title of this section — becomes a shorthand way of denoting textual disruption and thereby of distinguishing Pynchon 's activities from the tainted notions of synthesis and control . |
| 13 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 14 | Years later it is discovered that Grom reached the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan , causing great destruction until finally defeated by the High Elves . |
| 15 | The Orcs rampage through the mountains for years , causing considerable destruction and even threatening to capture the capital . |
| 16 | The olive-green blotches which appear on the leaves , often very early in a damp , cool season , turn black and spread to the fruit , causing ugly discolouration and sometimes cracking . |
| 17 | Many new cars are now capable of using unleaded petrol and most modern cars can be altered to take it at very little expense with no loss of performance . |
| 18 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 19 | Comrie observes of a Slavonic form marking high animacy that historically it ‘ was used only for male , adult , freeborn , healthy humans , i.e. not for women , children , slaves and cripples ’ . |
| 20 | Commenting on the killing on Nov. 7 of a two-year-old child by an ETA car-bomb intended for his policeman father , Extabe described the ETA leadership as " four imbeciles " and said that such operations were turning Basque opinion as well as general opinion against ETA . |
| 21 | Its a pump-action , easy to use product that can be sprayed onto wet or dry hair , making hair manageable and adding natural-looking control as well as versatility . |
| 22 | The Geographical Techniques course is in two parts , the first of which covers a wide range of methods , including the collection of data and techniques for analysing geographical material as well as theoretical aspects of the subject . |
| 23 | Food charges at the Married Unaccompanied Food Charge Rate are payable by personnel in Marital Categories 1 and 2 when occupying single accommodation and also by those in receipt of the special allowances mentioned above in relation to Categories 3 , 4 and 5 ’ . |
| 24 | For a decade now the developed world has been celebrating African music while altogether denying its otherness . |
| 25 | Their task , as they saw it , was largely one of preserving internal stability while adroitly guiding the organization 's response to fast-paced external change ’ ( Waterman et al. , 1991 : 51 ) . |
| 26 | Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies . |
| 27 | If the everyday , as Lefebvre defines it , is ‘ whatever remains after one has eliminated all specialized activity ’ , then it is important to acknowledge television as most characteristically a part of the everyday ( an everyday which , Lefebvre argues , is a historically limited phenomenon ) , characteristically occupying everyday time and only on ‘ special ’ occasions occupying ‘ special ’ time set aside for it and it alone . |
| 28 | Platelet activating factor was extracted from biopsies using ethanolic extraction as previously reported by us and others . |
| 29 | The principle of deduction is incorporated by seeing empirical investigation as primarily a procedure for testing theories through hypotheses deduced from the theory itself . |
| 30 | A MODERN SEMI DETACHED PROPERTY PROVIDING SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATION AND CONVENIENTLY SITUATED FOR LOCAL SHOPS |