Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NFU plan aims to offer the farmer a choice between setting land aside and receiving the full , subsidised rate for produce , or producing at maximum capacity without support . |
| 2 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 3 | to in increase apprentices into er the engineering or bringing into young people into engineering . |
| 4 | The forms of lighthouses and boats , while almost toy-like in their basic simplicity , are developed internally in terms of a large number of planes or facets , and since the sky receives the same treatment , the painting resolves itself into a mass of small , shifting planes , jointed together or hanging behind each other in shallow depth . |
| 5 | It was sleeping or eating with other people Harry could n't stand . ’ |
| 6 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 7 | 17.2 No amendment or modification of this agreement shall be valid or binding on any party unless the same : |
| 8 | This is most evident in cases of indecent assault , which may be committed by the least unwanted touching or stroking of one person 's body by another . |
| 9 | A : Obviously , I have personal feelings against Rottweilers , but I 'm calling for a total ban or muzzling in public places which should be extended to Dobermans and German Shepherds . |
| 10 | Many SSDs are developing or experimenting with similar schemes . |
| 11 | ‘ The 1991 Dangerous Dog Bill already gives the Secretary of State a reserve power to impose muzzling or leashing on other types of dogs when they are considered to present a serious danger to the public . |
| 12 | To reach it other than by boat or wading in low tide would have taken an hour 's drive , so it was not often visited by the women . |
| 13 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 14 | Inside , they were all busily writing or drawing on small pieces of paper . |
| 15 | See CORROSION-PROOFING & DESCALING for more details . |
| 16 | Fair enough , I plead guilty to telling & laughing at sick jokes too . |
| 17 | We believe that everyone will need to use the private car more selectively — possibly cycling or walking for short journeys or using public transport where this is possible . ’ |
| 18 | These two styles of easy care trousers from calange are the epitome of simplicity and lightness , just what 's needed when climbing or walking in hot climates . |
| 19 | After a couple of hours on Outrun or Road Rash , you 'll see them whizzing through Kwiksave with a trolley on a mission or storming through red lights in a Fiat Panda . |
| 20 | Clause 5 of the Bill would impose an obligation of confidence on a person who improperly acquires information by using or interfering with any computer or data retrieval mechanism , a welcome clarification . |
| 21 | When a vehicle is being weighed , the weigher should satisfy himself that all the wheels are on the plate and clear of the surround , and that no person is on the vehicle or the plate , or interfering in any way which might affect the weighing , and the engine must be switched off . |
| 22 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 23 | In various articles of the forties Eliot refined his material , whether in relating poetry to religious ritual in ‘ The Social Function of Poetry ’ or returning to Primitive Culture and John Layard 's studies ‘ in the ‘ stone age ’ New Hebrides ' in ‘ Cultural Forces in the Human Order ’ which reworks many of the points in the earlier ‘ Notes ’ series . |
| 24 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 25 | In this chapter Neil Toppin describes the assessment panels at his school in Scotland , which were established to attempt a flexible response to problems of disruption within the school and to offer pupils excluded from other schools or returning from special provision another chance in the mainstream . |
| 26 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full-cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 27 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 28 | Standards may be applied nationally , regionally or according to local conditions of land use , topography , meteorology , and so on . |
| 29 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |
| 30 | But whatever the origins the fairy folk warning has never been left to chance and the ‘ Luck ’ still exists ; it is either locked away in a strong room on the premises or according to some accounts stored safely in the custody of the Bank of England . |