Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [conj] it [vb -s] " 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 same metaphor is employed in The Languages of Love , but rather than representing tragic alienation as it does there , here it acts as a principle of formal and thematic patterning . |
| 4 | Although the threat of competition from institutions offering conveyancing may have receded for the moment , solicitors must not be complacent about the threat from the institutions because the Government may again consider encouraging outside competition if it seems political mileage may be gained . |
| 5 | ‘ We are selling historical information so it has to be valuable , ’ said Col Anatoly Privalov , vice-chairman of the Veterans Association and a former intelligence operative in Turkey and Algeria . |
| 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 | An SBU with high capital intensity could well be at an early stage of its product life-cycle , when one would expect it to be building up its investment relative to sales and also experiencing low profitability as it fights to establish itself in the market . |
| 8 | Griffiths realized that this situation could not be changed overnight , so under the new regulations the NHS will still be allowed to carry on providing long-term care if it wishes . |
| 9 | I am glad that so many more knitters are using double jacquard as it does make a super skirt . |
| 10 | As the mean velocity deficit decreases with x , so , in accordance with self-preservation , the scale of decreases ; thus the fluid at the centre of the wake is losing turbulent energy as it travels downstream . |
| 11 | This continues with the ‘ shark ’ saying different times until it says ‘ dinner time ’ . |
| 12 | Time out is a very effective way of controlling aggressive behaviour but it needs to be applied at the time of the problem and the parents must remain calm and firm . |
| 13 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a business move and I am sorry to be leaving French rugby as it has been going well , ’ said Andrew . |
| 15 | Fissures in rocks are widened as water freezes and expands within them , exerting tremendous forces as it does so . |
| 16 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 17 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |