Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was held that he was properly indicted with stealing from the company because a person or company in control of the site is deemed prima facie to have control over things on the land . |
| 2 | Besides which , on our visit we were rather discouraged from bathing by the sight of a dead lamb lying innocently at the bottom of the pool . |
| 3 | Help at this time may help you or the person you look after to remain at home as confidence is slowly regained in managing in a new situation . |
| 4 | The teacher is persuaded into conformity , submits to authority and is effectively discouraged from engaging in the process of pragmatic mediation which , I argue , defines the very profession of pedagogy . |
| 5 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 6 | Therefore the contraction in demand engineered by the government only succeeded in adding to the unemployment problem . |
| 7 | Terry appeared to be having a nervous breakdown ; her mother was foolishly trying to be everything to everybody and only succeeded in adding to the confusion . |
| 8 | Elfman used to boast to anyone who would listen that he was able to auto-fellate with the minimum of effort , making him the envy of every young buck who had tried it for himself and only succeeded in collapsing with a racking backache . |
| 9 | Britain and Hong Kong have apparently decided against waiting for the Steering Committee of the UN Conference on Indo-Chinese refugees to meet on January 18 before reviewing the situation . |
| 10 | The above mentioned insiders , that is , individuals connected with a company , individuals contemplating making a take-over , and tippee traders , are not only prevented from dealing in the relevant securities , but are also subject to two further constraints : first , counselling or procuring any other person to deal ; and secondly , communicating inside information to any other person . |
| 11 | The needs of applicants who are contemplating legal practice in England and Wales will generally be better met by studying in a university or college south of the border . |
| 12 | For almost the first decade of its existence , the resources of the Modular Course were entirely absorbed by coping with the first-order problems of survival and growth . |
| 13 | Your energies would be better employed in concentrating on the riots and the panic unfolding on this planet . ’ |
| 14 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 15 | She enjoys what she has ; she may be less inhibited about experimenting with the outward image ; on the other hand she is less of a slave to fashion , more ready to accept her individuality and express it openly . |
| 16 | I could see why he was angry : the windscreen of the Shogun was well-smeared with yellow paint and he 'd obviously reacted by turning on the windscreen-wipers , the worst thing he could have done . |
| 17 | As it turned out she was in the bath when she heard the sounds of a car pulling up outside , swiftly followed by tapping on the door , and she jumped quickly from the water , pausing only to belt a towelling robe about her waist . |
| 18 | A corporation tax deduction will be available to Newco for contributions made to a non-qualifying employee trust provided that : ( a ) the contributions are regular and of a revenue nature ; ( b ) the contributions are voluntary ( so as not to constitute annual payments within s337(2) ( b ) TA 1988 ) ; ( c ) the class of beneficiaries under the trust is confined to employees of the settlor company , so there will need to be multiple settlors if all the employees in a group of companies are to benefit and the various companies in the group that are contributing wish to ensure corporation tax deductions ; and ( d ) the companies themselves are entirely excluded from benefiting under the terms of the trust . |
| 19 | Where a certificate was transferred during the first half-year of its currency , and renewal of the transfer was refused at the October meeting , so that for its second half-year the certificate was in abeyance , the original holder , who resumed occupation of the premises and recommenced business , was held to have been rightly convicted of trafficking without a certificate : Miller v. Linton ( 1885 ) 15 R. ( J. ) 37 . |
| 20 | 5.1.2 if so required in writing by the Landlord to make such payments by banker 's order or credit transfer to any bank and account [ in the United Kingdom ] that the Landlord may from time to time nominate There may be occasions where the tenant would wish to withhold rent or claim a set-off and while the point is worth negotiating , clause 5.1.1 is otherwise not unreasonable . |
| 21 | 1.3 These Conditions shall override any contrary different or additional terms or conditions ( if any ) contained on or referred to in an order form or other documents or correspondence from the Purchaser , and no addition alteration or substitution of these terms will bind the Seller or form part of any Order unless they are expressly accepted in writing by a person authorised to sign on the Seller 's behalf . |
| 22 | 1.1 No addition alteration or substitution of these terms will bind us or form part of any contract unless they are expressly accepted in writing by a person authorised to sign on our behalf . |
| 23 | She was mostly absorbed in looking after the younger brother . |
| 24 | In terms of printer use , the librarian has to state whether s/he is using 1 ) Parallel ( Centronics output ) or 2 ) Serial ( RS423 output ) Most printers will be parallel and this can be easily checked by looking at the microcomputer . |
| 25 | The effect that this financial autonomy had on education there is best explained by looking at The Effective Resource Allocation in Schools Project ( ERASP ) . |
| 26 | Although these functions have remained essentially unchanged since the early 1970s , there have been a number of changes in the way they have been carried out , which are best examined by looking at the balance sheet of the discount market ( Table 17.8 ) : |
| 27 | In the Morning Star , a newspaper not given to writing about the rich and over-privileged , Stewart Lane wrote |
| 28 | The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply . |
| 29 | A new book or topic in history is best approached by moving from the general to the particular , and from the simple text to the complex one . |
| 30 | There is likewise a crucial problem for a rational approach to government in which strategic questions may not be best resolved by bargaining between a group of individuals all of whom have conflicting , ‘ tunnel vision ’ images dictated by departmental needs and priorities . |