Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of overspending due to inevitable inaccuracy in the estimate should be guarded against by the inclusion of contingency sums . |
| 2 | For many applications , mathematical modelling is actually proving preferable to physical experimentation . |
| 3 | Using DIM to Reserve Memory 3.2.2 |
| 4 | How is VFM auditing different from traditional auditing or management consultancy ? |
| 5 | Nor is the idea of community policing popular amongst ordinary constables in other sections of the police , often because it contradicts their views of what constitutes ‘ real ’ police work , but also because they have misguided notions about what community policing is , as well as a practical awareness of the unrealistic expectations held of it by enthusiasts . |
| 6 | One potential criticism of the pH/pCO 2 method is that investigators may be measuring dissolved CO 2 in perfusing solution that has diffused as CO 2 gas down a mucosa to lumen concentration gradient , rather than occurring due to secreted bicarbonate ions . |
| 7 | EastEnders dipped to 5.5 million in its early days with Michelle becoming pregnant by Dirty Den before things improved . |
| 8 | Ideally , concrete paths should be divided into 3m bays to reduce the risk of cracking due to slight ground movement . |
| 9 | This indeed is one of the implications of investigations of environmental processes because they are now becoming assimilated with new approaches to time and environmental change as outlined in chapter 8 ( p. 161 ) . |
| 10 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 11 | Weber there distinguishes between Erklären , or the kind of causal explanation proper to natural science , and Verstehen , or the kind of understanding proper to social science . |
| 12 | But another theory was that the bomber dumped the device after becoming nervous about possible discovery on his way to plant it elsewhere . |
| 13 | By the mid-1970s the purity of Gardiner 's reorganization of the criminal courts was jeopardized by the Crown Courts becoming overburdened with large numbers of relatively trivial offences . |
| 14 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 15 | Important as these two above opportunity structures are for facilitating corporate crime , the greatest opportunity lies in their ability to prevent their actions from becoming subject to criminal sanctions in the first place . |
| 16 | In exchange for this benefit , the holder of the bill of lading would assume the burden of becoming subject to contractual liabilities as if he ‘ had been a party to the contract of carriage . ’ |
| 17 | But it remains to be seen whether the commission will examine events of the early 1980s which led to 261 Canadians being infected by contaminated blood and about 800 haemophiliacs becoming infected by tainted blood products . |
| 18 | That exposure to extreme communism , which included Stalin dispatching Fred Koch 's chauffeur to Siberia for becoming infected by Western ideas , prompted Koch 's father to swing to rabid right-wing beliefs . |
| 19 | FRENCH police claim to have uncovered a £50 million money-laundering operation at the weekend after becoming suspicious of Japanese businessmen who appeared uninterested in profit , writes Tim Witcher in Paris . |
| 20 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 21 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 22 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
| 23 | If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun ! |
| 24 | It is even clear how long they are expected to grieve before becoming involved in ordinary life again . |
| 25 | Whilst the partnership agreement may well expressly or by implication prohibit a partner from becoming involved in other ( non-competing ) business in an attempt to secure his full time devotion to the firm , breach of such provision will not result in the offending partner becoming accountable in respect of profits earned from that other business . |
| 26 | My research indicates a variety of routes to class , trade union and gender consciousness and the probability of interaction between several factors : hardships experienced in a working-class childhood ; changes in household structure , such as taking over the ‘ man 's ’ role of breadwinner ; becoming involved in industrial action ; developing a new awareness of how social life is organised through contact with political or trade union ideologies ; and just growing older and having more time free from actual and ideological family constraints . |
| 27 | ( c ) Foreign lawyers in the UK This section is concerned with foreign lawyers becoming involved in legal professional work within the UK . |
| 28 | Growing numbers of schools , colleges , community groups and other training providers are becoming involved in European projects . |
| 29 | Needless to say , I found his political philosophy disagreeable and unacceptable , but as my mission was to reach agreement I avoided becoming involved in basic considerations or in any way assessing the value of white rule as against black . |
| 30 | Some have argued that by becoming involved in local government we had brought the whole disaster upon ourselves . |