Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement from the new pressure group says clubs throughout the Foyle area feel that even with the continuing decline both in Irish stocks and water quality , the Commission has allowed over-fishing by netting to continue and is not adequately funded to deter or prevent poaching and the continued degradation of water quality throughout the system . |
| 2 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 3 | For the year 1982–3 , the Stephen Jones working group also put together a long-term system for the allocation of the pool based on unit costing and the 1982–3 allocation of £539 million was the first one to be determined by it . |
| 4 | This poses problems for clients , arising out of the issue which Rueschemeyer identified , of the social control of expertise : the impersonality of bureaucratised hospital doctoring and the creeping paternalism of general practice are equally unacceptable . |
| 5 | Both were smoking and the pungent smell of Gauloise tobacco so early in the morning made me feel sick . |
| 6 | Mr Bond has been threatened with receiverships , the loss of boardroom control at his key Bell Resources company , failure to secure sale of the breweries , share suspensions , disclosure that a former employee may have been involved in telephone bugging and the final indignity of a derisory A$53 million bid from rival Kerry Packer for his TV interests . |
| 7 | The opinion of the Parliament at that time was to support the changes which we were seeking but the immediate reaction from the European Commission was not to accept the opinion of the Parliament . |
| 8 | They were suspicious of preaching and the personal interpretation of scripture by the laity , and placed great stress on the sacraments as sources of grace . |
| 9 | The role of subcontracting and the increasing rate of investment by large companies in their subsidiaries has already been highlighted as one factor involved in the resilience of the small firm sector . |
| 10 | She translates the implicit meaning of tight skirts and high heels as the exact equivalent of Chinese foot binding and the Nigerian custom of loading women 's legs with pounds of brass wire . |
| 11 | Intuitively , she knew that the little Prince was lying and the dejected lag in his steps as he left her room told her that there was a weight on his spirit . |
| 12 | Output was falling , strikes were growing and the only response of the government was to impose more and more controls at home and blame foreign capital and the US in particular for the mess which it had itself created . |
| 13 | The interviewer may be expecting certain answers and qualifications from the person she/he is interviewing but the overall impression of yourself which you create in the interview is equally important . |
| 14 | Certain necessary fixed costs of overheads can then be spread over a greater number of units of output thus reducing their incidence per unit of output , and also unit attributable costs might be lowered via bulk buying or the better management of production , and by strengthening of purchasing power . |
| 15 | That same year he worried over ‘ Slum Areas ’ concerned about overcrowding and the possible creation of new slums . |
| 16 | However , the vehement opposition to prison building by penal reform groups appears to have been vindicated in the light of a worsening of overcrowding and the further deterioration of regimes . |
| 17 | I could afford the naked women but not the naked scepticism , the carping and sniping and the public washing of dirty linen which represents freedom to an English editor . |
| 18 | Now animals share much of this pre-linguistic heritage with us , in varying degrees depending upon whether we are speaking of gibbons or goldfish , but ( pace Washoe ) stop short of speaking and the consequent metamorphosis of the prototypes that goes with it . |
| 19 | In more than five years of operation it allegedly invested more than US$50,000,000 in cocaine trafficking , arms smuggling and the illegal export of Indian mummies from the northern Atacama desert region . |
| 20 | This probably relates to our reason for crying and the early history of how our tears were responded to . |
| 21 | The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness while that of Hebraism is strictness of conscience , the former concerned with intelligence , thinking and knowing the ground of one 's duty , the latter with obedience , doing and the diligent practice of one 's duty . |
| 22 | Relatively few people incur a capital gains tax bill because of index linking and the offsetting effect of the personal tax allowance . |
| 23 | Two hour timings have been slipping and the 21:14 arrival at Aberystwyth has over 15 minutes waiting at Talerddig for an up train to come through . |
| 24 | But since 1987 there has been added impetus to the development of the Taurus programme , triggered largely by the post-Big Bang boom in share dealing and the subsequent crash in 1987 . |
| 25 | It was a trip she would rather have forgotten — the cold was biting and the whispering patter of rodent feet made her heart jump every few minutes — but she knew she would have to face it again when she and Guy escaped from the keep . |
| 26 | Failing this , instructions on how to clean equipment should be unequivocal , with clear guidelines on boiling and the relative efficacy of disinfecting agents . |
| 27 | The low percentage marrying and the higher age at marriage probably reflected the fact that such women would have had to give up their careers on marriage . |
| 28 | For a second , she lay back and the pillows and the nightmare took her , sweat ran from her pores , and she felt herself falling and the great straining of her heart . |
| 29 | Darkness was falling and the huge pane of glass was a black rectangle in which he could see their faces reflected , like the gaunt , disembodied heads of night travellers in a lighted railway carriage . |
| 30 | evaluation of required operator decision making and the optimum balance between the human and automatic contributions to safety actions |