Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps . |
| 2 | Yet each year the Equal Opportunities Commission receives between 700–800 enquiries relating to pregnancy dismissals . |
| 3 | The referee looks for open hands fluttering about in the opponent 's face , because they all too often ‘ accidentally ’ catch the opponent 's eyes . |
| 4 | Once a current is developed and the head of water is lowered a hydraulic gradient is developed along the beach and a circulation pattern develops of longshore currents feeding seaward rip currents ( Fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 5 | This is followed by a 12-minute session on the heavy bag and Davies gets his own back , hammering Eubank 's abdominal muscles with a medicine ball before the session finishes with 20 minutes skipping . |
| 6 | It all starts with some balls bouncing onto the screen , and after some text the group members are introduced . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Where the Council has within three months beginning with the date when an application for recognition was received by the Council neither granted nor refused recognition , an appeal to the Master of the Rolls may be brought under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act as if the application had been refused by the Council . |
| 8 | A Great Tightness lies on most pavements unleashing itself round all passing ankles . |
| 9 | PHIL EVANS FINDS OUT WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT AND LOOKS AT FIVE MACHINES COVERING THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF FEATURES AND PRICE . |
| 10 | In broad terms , because soft systems thinking represents a unique way of encouraging an observer to learn about a situation , it should appeal to virtually anyone who has an enquiring mind , a notion reflected in the closing paragraphs of Systems Thinking , Systems practice ; as I have made frequent reference to this work throughout , it seems appropriate to finish my book with the following quote from Professor Peter Checkland , who says about soft systems thinking : |
| 11 | If Fouga-flying 's exhilaration makes you forgetful a low fuel Bingo light warns of twelve minutes remaining . |
| 12 | NERC study warns of heavy metals entering food chain |
| 13 | We presume that the behaviour depends on subcortical pathways involving the superior colliculus , although given the early abnormalities of these brains , anomalous projections to the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulus can not be excluded . |
| 14 | In many households the modern standard of living depends on married women finding jobs , often in service occupations , on a scale much greater than in the previous generation . |
| 15 | A united economic policy in Europe depends on all countries adopting the Social Chapter and its provisions . |
| 16 | Third , much of the construction industry depends on formal companies subcontracting at least half of a total work programme to informals , many of whom in turn use tools produced by other jua kali artisans . |
| 17 | It controls its own distributor company and also — almost unique for a Guinness agency — acts for United Distillers marketing UD/MHA 's brands in Indonesia . |
| 18 | Shot in Britain , Ethiopia , Israel and Saudi Arabia , it deals with major issues facing the world 's religions . |
| 19 | The law deals with social relations surrounding the management of material relations between individual subjects ( violence , property ownership , theft , rights and obligations to act ) and politics deals with the regulation of the material relations between members of the polity and decisions about collection and distribution of shared material ( taxes ) on its behalf . |
| 20 | Consequently , there is no evidence that this ‘ Godfatherism ’ , or as Needleman and Needleman ( 1979 : 518 ) prefer to call it , ‘ crime-coercive system ’ exists in other industries operating under other forms of competition . |
| 21 | Research and experimentation tax credits to private businesses exploring technological advances . |
| 22 | The problem amounts to isolating criteria according to which we can identify an aggressive act . |
| 23 | Parliament also approved stricter laws allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants , wider powers for border police , and checks on potential refugees disembarking from aircraft . |
| 24 | • fluoride leads to fewer teeth falling out which leads to more overcrowding and so extractions are needed . |
| 25 | Exporting activity in most sectors is dominated by the larger companies and this is particularly true of the Office machinery and data processing sector where the predominance of multinationals leads to large companies representing 98.7% of all exports in this sector . |
| 26 | This includes among other things controlling , coordinating , motivating , and planning as specified by Brech . |
| 27 | Bourne says that the rewrite has now achieved linear performance increases across multiple processors running a database . |
| 28 | On occasion one hears of unusual circumstances surrounding tenders , where neither the vendor nor tenderers are present to affirm that everything was above-board . |
| 29 | If it had a name , or a code word , well that sounds like civil servants playing games . |
| 30 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |