Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's Drinking Water Inspectorate suspects that Britain 's 39 water companies may be adopting different standards when it comes to reporting pollution incidents which threaten the safety of domestic supplies . |
| 2 | This second component , consisting of K re-ionization and Madelung terms , is important for understanding catalytic processes as it indicates that the local environment about the CO is ionic , even at high precoverages of K. |
| 3 | The East Oxford Traffic Scheme has cost nearly £100,000 and is causing more problems than it solves . |
| 4 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 5 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 6 | How is it possible , in a democracy , for a committee of the House of Commons ( the elected representatives of the people ) to find itself prevented from interviewing civil servants when it wishes to do so , or faced with witnesses who refuse to answer questions that are put to them , as was the case when the Commons Select Committee on Defence attempted to investigate the Westland affair in 1986 ? |
| 7 | In his view the SFO should adopt a code of conduct enshrining these ideas if it did not already have one . |
| 8 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 9 | 100 employers were questioned in the survey , each employer naming ten institutions that it thought produced ‘ above average ’ graduates . |
| 10 | This continues with the ‘ shark ’ saying different times until it says ‘ dinner time ’ . |
| 11 | The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it 'd estimated . |
| 12 | I have had the advantage of reading those speeches and it seems appropriate that I should set out my conclusions without repeating in detail the facts and points for decision in those authorities . |
| 13 | And plenty of ways for them to check out too , the most popular with the punters being bad driving ( James Dean , Marc Bolan ) , firearms ( John Lennon , Marvin Gaye ) and taking more pills that it says on the bottle ( Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin ) . |
| 14 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 15 | In July , a US warship in the Pacific warned an Australian airliner carrying 300 passengers that it faced ‘ hostile action . ’ |
| 16 | If a friendly settlement is not reached , the Commission must form its own opinion on the matter and report it to the Committee of Ministers making such proposals as it thinks fit ( Art.31 ) . |
| 17 | This can be illustrated by Lord Denning 's approach in Crowther v Shannon Motor Co [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 30 where a used Jaguar car with over 82,000 miles on the clock was driven for three weeks covering 2,300 miles before it broke down with engine seizure . |
| 18 | Fissures in rocks are widened as water freezes and expands within them , exerting tremendous forces as it does so . |
| 19 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 20 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 21 | This information , spanning several centuries as it does , must necessarily be brief and incomplete . |