Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Where goods are supplied in pursuance of a request in which a trade description is used and the circumstances are such as to make it reasonable to infer that the goods are supplied as goods corresponding to that trade description , the person supplying the goods shall be deemed to have applied that trade description to the goods . |
| 2 | It 's not been proved that children living near power cables are more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 3 | It might therefore be expected that sequences corresponding to ZNF11 would also be duplicated in the apes , but not necessarily in species more distantly related to man . |
| 4 | The water is dirty with unsightly debris along the banks but swans do not seem to be deterred and ropes hanging from the freight railway bridge downstream show that local children swim in the river . |
| 5 | Much of the language behaviour of the speakers described in this book can be characterised as code switching between those two systems , but it is also clear that " English " and " Creole " interact at many other levels , both for these speakers and for the community as a whole . |
| 6 | It must be admitted that concepts referring to unseen processes tend to acquire additional meanings that are not suggested by the evidence they are intended to explain ( see MacCorquodale & Meehl , 1948 ) . |
| 7 | In the morning , she rose early and already the fires were lit and breakfast cooking on the range . |
| 8 | The Love Canal issue raised a scandal in the late 1970s , when it was revealed that families living in the area were at serious risk from chemical poisoning . |
| 9 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 10 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 11 | During the pilot study , because the local GPs had not been officially informed of the scheme that we were running , it was agreed that patients arriving with a GP letter would be seen by a doctor regardless of whether the complaint or injury fell within my parameters of practice . |
| 12 | It was thought that people tapping into the power supply illegally were sending high-voltage ‘ spikes ’ down the line . |
| 13 | It was contended that purchasers looking for a good-quality carpet would go to a conventional carpet shop and not to a carpet superstore which they considered was more applicable to the lower end of the market . |