Example sentences of "from [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |
| 2 | Three-quarters are outside the car industry , doing everything from handling food to bottling cosmetics . |
| 3 | In Britain , the Regional Library Bureaux have consistently handled both interlending and cooperative acquisition programmes , although their share of the total national interlending activity is only 8% — largely derived from handling types of material which are not stocked by the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC — see below ) . |
| 4 | In the case of Gagnon and Simon and those influenced by them ( such as Kenneth Plummer ) , the theoretical framework derives from Meadean social psychology , which sees the individual as having a developing personality which is created in an interaction with others ; and from labelling theories of deviance , which concentrate on the public processes of stigmatisation . |
| 5 | ( 10 ) Throughout Stages 1 and 2 , DCSLs may be involved in advising schools , librarians , or library committees on practical matters , from suggesting trends in library layout ( for schools relocating or refurbishing their libraries in anticipation of , or as a result of , receiving a project grant ) to advising on precise requirements of order forms , the need to " weed " old stock to make space for the new acquisitions , and the desirability or updating or devising a new catalogue . |
| 6 | The plaintiff in Diamond Stylus Co Ltd v Bauden Precision Diamonds Ltd [ 1973 ] RPC 675 paid the price for not having an express covenant restraining employees from soliciting customers after employment ended and was forced to argue that solicitation could only have come about because of the misuse of business secrets . |
| 7 | Because British intelligence has been reluctant to spy on a legitimately elected government and has also been forbidden from keeping ministers under surveillance , MI5 has welcomed the CIA 's intervention and given it a free rein in its British operations , always provided that it can share the resulting information . |
| 8 | Kenneth Smith , 46 , who farmed 36ha ( 90 acres ) of land owned by the Forestry Commission , was banned from keeping animals for life after pleading guilty to a total of 14 charges . |
| 9 | Welcome back : A father and daughter have been banned from keeping animals for life after admitting cruelty to an Alsatian dog . |
| 10 | Magistrates banned Mr Davies and his daughter , who live in Frampton on Severn , from keeping animals for life ; the only exception being that Mr Davies will be allowed to keep racing pigeons he already owns . |
| 11 | Karen George of Blackwells said : ‘ There were one or two hotline inconsistencies , sometimes four day delivery , sometimes five ; but there were no major problems with supply , and we benefited from keeping Pole to Pole in stock . ’ |
| 12 | No good can come from keeping lead in petrol and harm may result . |
| 13 | Linda brings along her box of tricks to every session — it holds a tool for most jobs , from opening oysters to piping cream . |
| 14 | Mercury applied to the court for interlocutory injunctions to restrain the union and its members from inducing breach of contract between Mercury and BT . |
| 15 | This tradition that the redemption brought by Christ has abolished laws of purity that distinguished between clean and unclean animals , clean and unclean foods , clean and unclean people ( Jew and gentile ) and clean and unclean physical states ( women during menstruation ) restrained Christianity for several centuries from applying laws of impurity to women . |
| 16 | Later firemen tackling the blaze were in danger from exploding canisters of acetylene and propane . |
| 17 | The pop entryists — whose creed is that anyone with attitude , a masterplan , a nice line in self-salesmanship , can break on through — disqualify themselves From becoming objects of worship . |
| 18 | Cleaning tools and equipment : may be disinfected if it is necessary to prevent them from becoming vehicles of contamination . |
| 19 | Invariably a financial institution will not risk the long term profits bound up in honest work and good reputation for the short term gains to be had from abusing conflict of interest situations such as dealing on the basis of inside information obtained from a client . |
| 20 | This , it will now be seen , can be justified not only by necessary limitations of space , but by the advantage that can be gained in many respects from sacrificing generality in favour of contextual particularity . |
| 21 | Candidates should produce as much mailable copy as they can in the time allowed and should be discouraged from sacrificing quality for quantity . |
| 22 | Candidates should produce as much mailable copy as they can in the time allowed and should be discouraged from sacrificing quality for quantity . |
| 23 | Candidates should produce as much mailable copy as they can in the time allowed and should be discouraged from sacrificing quality for quantity . |
| 24 | It was therefore generous of Émile to gain satisfaction from promoting others to success in the music world . |
| 25 | Estate agents contracted to do the work are barred from inspecting properties in detail . |
| 26 | Stylish tips from us to you … from saving elephants to wrestling kids ! |
| 27 | On May 14 the SAP applied for an injunction to restrain two newspapers , the Weekly Mail and the Vrye Weekblad , from publishing allegations about SAP " dirty tricks " operations . |
| 28 | Also on Oct. 25 the European Commission of Human Rights issued a preliminary opinion in favour of three British newspapers which had been prevented from publishing excerpts from Spycatcher , a controversial book about the UK counterintelligence service written by former agent Peter Wright . |
| 29 | On Nov. 26 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the United Kingdom government had been in breach of the Convention on Human Rights in attempting to prevent three newspapers from publishing extracts from Spycatcher , the memoirs of the former MI5 officer Peter Wright [ see pp. 35537-39 ; 36155-56 ; 36502-03 ; 37158 ; 37784 ] . |
| 30 | The Government has shied away from forcing unions to discipline members who take part in unofficial action , and has put proposals to curb strikes in essential services on the back burner . |