Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Company A receives payment for supplying defence equipment to the government then the payment results in an increase in Company A's bank account , without a decrease in any other M4 private sector bank account . |
| 2 | They do not abase themselves in penitence but see themselves in a partnership which accepts responsibility for establishing peace and justice on this planet . |
| 3 | In cold and damp weather the carb sometimes has difficulty in getting heat energy to vaporise fuel , so its temperature drops and it freezes the water droplets in the incoming air . |
| 4 | In Hinduism , practically everything is the manifestation of a god , and even the most seasoned guru has difficulty in keeping track of all of them . |
| 5 | Henley has experience of establishing research consortia and also obtaining third party funding for such work . |
| 6 | He has experience in wresting success from public-relations disasters . |
| 7 | The teacher needs skill in correcting language responses without embarrassing or humiliating the student . |
| 8 | Roughly one adult in twenty has trouble with leaking urine or ‘ incontinence ’ . |
| 9 | No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court . |
| 10 | In modern urban life , prominence involves skill in handling publicity . |
| 11 | Comparison of amylase secretion and synthesis results of patients who had had only one acute attack and those who had had two or more , shows that synthetic studies may be more sensitive than the standard pancreatic function test , which only measures secretion in detecting pancreatitis . |
| 12 | Burke falls for Sillas and loses interest in locating father which upsets Sage , he wanders off on his own and runs across young Romanian epileptic Elina ( Elina Lowensohn ) who bizarrely turns out to be pater 's juvenile mistress . |
| 13 | This work includes analysis of fruiting body formation in fungi , the role of calcium in signal transduction in plants , the genetic and biochemical control of bacterial and yeast cell cycles , and the control of gene expression during sex determination in Drosophila . |
| 14 | A light coating of clear mineral oil , even on polished surfaces , enhances contrast and increases resolution by filling surface irregularities . |
| 15 | When work on LIFESPAN is finished , logging off takes place by selecting option E from any index page or from the Option prompt . |
| 16 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 17 | Degeneration of Musculature — Degeneration of the flight-muscles occur after sexual maturity in many species , notably among queen ants and termites ( pp. 617 , 1237 ) , where the process promotes reproduction by releasing amino acids that can be used in egg-formation . |
| 18 | Central to this is the use of Ramtron 's innovative Ferroelectric RAM ( CI No 1,603 ) which stores information without needing power . |
| 19 | Naltrexone keeps heroin from activating endorphin receptors , without activating them itself . |
| 20 | The programme also offers advice on reducing consumption of energy and raw materials . |
| 21 | If you do have a scanner which performs grey-scaling by using dither patterns it is important to run tests to check which pattern is the most suitable for the particular picture , there is often a considerable difference in quality which is due to the scanner 's response to the original photography . |
| 22 | This reflects success in avoiding ceiling effects for these stimuli although it is not immediately clear exactly which factors if any have interacted to produce a recognition test of comparable difficulty to those used previously . |
| 23 | It is Pippin too who looks in the palantir and so misleads Sauron into thinking Saruman may have the Ring . |
| 24 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 25 | This provides experience of applying computing solutions in an organization and deepens students ' understanding of the theoretical parts of the course . |
| 26 | Gustason ( 1983 ) reports progress in reading performance , as measured in a test of syntactic abilities after a period in a programme using Signing Exact English , as compared to the norms for deaf children . |
| 27 | AEA provides help in meeting COSHH regulations and providing suitable alternatives to previously acceptable practices . |
| 28 | The familiar adage is that ethnographic research provides depth by sacrificing breadth but , as Finch ( 1986 ) argues , it is possible to build an element of generality into this type of research not by random sampling , which is usual in quantitative research , but by constructing individual projects in the mould of similar ones in different settings so that comparisons can be made and a body of cumulative knowledge established . |
| 29 | improves motivation by giving feedback on personal progress . |
| 30 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |