Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |
| 2 | Coopers , which is not accepting or denying liability under the agreement , says that the money will come from ‘ various sources ’ , including its insurers . |
| 3 | It created a statutory offence of riot — 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose . |
| 4 | Among the latest kitchen appliances on display will be revolutionary new cookers from British Gas , juice mills , double skillet cooking pans , ‘ Micro Crisp wrap ’ ( for browning and crisping pastry in the microwave ) , the latest range of Tupperware containers and the best non-stick bakeware . |
| 5 | One way of checking and recording information about the functional vision of pupils in the 5–11 year old age-group is given in the Look and Think programme ( Tobin , Chapman et al . , |
| 6 | Young men and women with honours degrees or postgraduate degrees can be appointed as ‘ legal trainees ’ and be articled to solicitors in the Legal Service , normally after obtaining exemption from passing or obtaining exemption from the C.P.E. An appointment as Legal Assistant follows admission as a solicitor . |
| 7 | At present there is no standard assessment offered to anyone seeking or requiring care as a result of their mental condition and as a consequence placement can be decided on factors other than the medical and social needs of the sufferer . |
| 8 | ( a ) Specializing , as in the cases of sustaining or promoting work in a particular medium or branch of an art , and in some circumstances a particular style ; |
| 9 | The individual defendants at Nuremberg , for example , were third parties to the Treaty of London establishing and granting jurisdiction to the Military Tribunal . |
| 10 | Indeed , in some cells , simply raising pH i induces proliferation , as was demonstrated recently in fibroblasts by inserting and inducing expression of the gene for H + ATPase . |
| 11 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 12 | Victor walks towards me grinning and stripping cellophane off a new pack of cheroots . |
| 13 | A lower basal weathering front marked the position at which chemical weathering was actively attacking sound unweathered rock , and on the land surface exogenous processes were eroding , transporting and depositing sediment across a landsurface composed of chemically weathered rock with occasional protrusions of unweathered erosional residuals . |
| 14 | Most early Saxon churches had a monastic core ; the loosely knit followers of St Benedict used their ‘ minster ’ churches as bases for evangelising the surrounding areas , preaching and celebrating mass in the open at first . |
| 15 | Participant observations involves the observing of a phenomenon as an ‘ insider ’ , through contacting and gaining acceptance from the people or groups being studied . |
| 16 | It offers children the unique opportunity of seeing and hearing English in a full audio-visual context , with a language syllabus based on Book 1 of the best-selling course , English Today ! ( see page 6 ) . |
| 17 | At the age of 14 he left school to tour America , singing and playing guitar with a band . |
| 18 | More generally , water will show up from a distance by catching and reflecting light from the sky . |
| 19 | ‘ The next step was to split the project into manageable categories where individuals could take specific responsibility for producing and getting acceptance for a group of procedures . ’ |
| 20 | If they start to fall beneath their percentile band then they are not growing or gaining weight at the expected rate and it is important to try to determine why this is happening . |
| 21 | The meeting of Experts in June 1978 discussed a difficult question , raised by the United States , as to whether or not a Central Authority was obliged to prosecute or to defend an appeal against a decision of the judicial authority granting or refusing execution of a Letter . |
| 22 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 23 | He is the picture of the Good Life escapee , but the 200-acre farm and picturesque house hide a profitable secret : a full-time job with computer giants ICL , designing and troubleshooting software from a tiny office in his loft . |
| 24 | Indeed , there is no doubt that control of French mainland ports was vitally important to the English , and that much diplomacy in the course of the war was concerned with securing and maintaining access to the use of their facilities . |
| 25 | … but it is a different sort of objectivity than that permitting and defining assertibility in the sciences and impossible to verify or vindicate by their kinds of instruments and tests . |
| 26 | Drama can be a powerful force for motivating and enhancing work in every curriculum area . |
| 27 | The traditional way of disseminating and institutionalising information within the services and among language groups is not in the main by the written word but by showing and sharing . |
| 28 | Through advanced informatics , for example , many agencies have been analyzing , disseminating and predicting information about the likelihood of famine in Africa . |
| 29 | ‘ Race ’ has a history of supplementing and replacing class as a representation of deviance in psychology . |
| 30 | Frankie left school and Dad found him a job with him , fetching and carrying sand for the men . |