Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government is committed to allowing solicitors as well as barristers to represent their clients in the higher courts , the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , said last night . |
| 2 | Other studies , using census as well as survey data , found that levels of urbanisation were becoming more uniform from republic to republic , and that rural and urban living conditions were becoming more similar ; there was an increasing uniformity of occupational structure and a particularly notable increase in the representation of specialists among the previously less well educated national groups . |
| 3 | It is also possible to apply coaching skills in a variety of tasks , such as appraisal or job reviews , training , job interviews , target setting , handling meetings and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ He was drinking a lot , eating loads and still losing weight . |
| 5 | The study will involve 250 women including past , current and recovering anorexics as well as 50 others suffering from another eating disorder , bulimia . |
| 6 | They will give you advice on completing forms and as much general information about the Poll tax as they can . |
| 7 | The pate rainbows up through oranges , pinks , blushing reds and beyond , to ultraviolet perhaps . |
| 8 | Such systems are excellent for producing maps and currently contribute to the management of geographic information but their analytical functions are weak . |
| 9 | They 're then passed on to food or eating utensils and soon everyone 's infested . |
| 10 | As to the climbdowns to which the right hon. Gentleman referred , they merely reflect the Government 's success in putting in writing — and I agree that this was needed in some cases the Government 's intentions , using words that even the right hon. Gentleman could understand . |
| 11 | Words or behaviour show that the offence can be committed by using words or merely by actions or behaviour . |
| 12 | Words or behaviour show that the offence can be committed by using words or merely by actions or behaviour . |
| 13 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 14 | The waterlogged heaps of wet muck soon became unstable and eventually began to slide downwards , quite suddenly becoming semi-liquid slurries or mudflows , which swept down the sides of the volcano , gathering speed and more and more material the whole time . |
| 15 | Around the château itself were neatly laid out formal gardens with mature trees , age-old fountains and sweet smelling bushes as well as a neglected , sunken , walled garden . |
| 16 | Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives . |
| 17 | Indeed , in many respects , such an arrangement would strengthen the independence of the auditor , not only in relation to an industry 's sponsoring department but also with respect to the potential pressures of overbearing industry chairmen . |
| 18 | If you plan lightweight backpacking overnight trips or weekend walks , then this size of sack can be suitable — especially if the tent , cooking gear and so on are spread between two or three people . |
| 19 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 20 | Praising his ability to remember Acts , sections , subsections , qualifying cases and even inspectors ' names , John Williamson , the Society 's chairman , said : ‘ He 's still with the small practitioners group and still sharing his knowledge with his colleagues . |
| 21 | Steve works in the engineering office and has taken over some of the er you know purchasing function as well , like enquiries and stuff . |
| 22 | There was little if any prospect of the left gaining support and still less power in Japan after MacArthur 's resolute handling of labour unrest and of the Communist party . |
| 23 | Besides the circular helix , much the best known naturally occurring helix and also the most interesting and beautiful mathematically is the concho-spiral , adopted in all coiled gastropod shells and some others such as the group of protozoans known as Foramenifera . |
| 24 | By March 1992 , 3.64m people had opened Tessa accounts , depositing £10bn and therefore removing that much spending power from the economy for five years — a side-effect for which Mr Major might not wish to claim too personal a responsibility . |
| 25 | It was used for keeping accounts and also for dedicatory inscriptions . |
| 26 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 27 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 28 | The leptic , unfinished-looking figure , with the narrow , sloping shoulders and almost deformed Modigliani neck in its high collar , and the elongated features of an amiable greyhound , was a boon to the caricaturists . |
| 29 | By the author 's own assertion it is not a final statement , but a reference on which to build , enabling practice and yet more practice to lead the way ahead for safe glacier travel . |
| 30 | Those who have been identified as ‘ dyslexic ; will necessarily be underachieving readers but not all underachieving readers will necessarily be ‘ dyslexic ’ . |