Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh det] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 32 | As well as stressing the dangers to the unity of the United Kingdom , the Tory campaign will concentrate this week on emphasising what ministers claim is the threat to recovery that would be posed by a Labour government , particularly the likelihood of an immediate increase in interest rates . |
| 33 | Earlier , the trial had been told that police had set up road blocks north of Perth as part of another inquiry when the white Cavalier containing what police described as ‘ seasoned criminals ’ had burst through . |
| 34 | Guide the students , according to their experience , through the process of formulating and testing hypotheses by indicating which areas to focus on . |
| 35 | I 'll put it , there 'll be a distribution list that will go out , advice procedures and I 'll put that across the top saying which procedures have been re-issued . |
| 36 | It is precisely because our own human senses are not capable of doing what bats do that we find it hard to believe . |
| 37 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 38 | The Commissioner has already made it clear that if it needs to bring its works council proposal on where the consultation and multi-nationals through the new Chapter , it 'll include workers in British plants and calculating which firms have to comply and U K firms operating plants on the continent will have to operate the directive there . |
| 39 | There is no room for social , political or historical questions , just an individual free-for-all in choosing which meanings to make . |
| 40 | Indeed , the only problem you 'll encounter is choosing which weeks to buy … |
| 41 | Several models for determining which cases deserve to be re-examined suggest themselves . |
| 42 | It is also now very clear that chance plays an enormous part in determining which creatures survive , and where . |
| 43 | The main technical problems concern delivering stimulation at an intensity that mirrors the level of activity that occurs spontaneously in the brain , and determining which structures have been affected by it . |
| 44 | Competitive innovation has proved decisive in many industries over the last two decades in determining which firms assume leadership positions and which disappear . |
| 45 | Clearly , therefore , factors other than the cumulative amount of alcohol consumed are involved in determining which patients develop liver disease . |
| 46 | Until recently , the crucial question centred on the role schools played in determining which children rise socially ( Anthony Heath and John Ridge , ‘ Schools , examinations and occupational attainment ’ , reprinted in Achievement and Inequality in Education , ed . |
| 47 | Without a thesaurus , the records would need to be searched by naming all the metals individually , but without knowing which metals have actually been recorded in the records . |
| 48 | Show off by knowing which countries fit together . |
| 49 | The skill , then , is in knowing which situations to handle with ‘ kid gloves ’ , as another put it . |
| 50 | Critics of the dual state thesis argue that in practice public expenditures can be classified according to their function only through a post hoc evaluation of their consequences or by knowing which organizations implemented the programmes ( which would make the whole schema tautologous ) . |
| 51 | As virtually all H pylori infected subjects have active chronic gastritis which precedes the development of atrophic changes , it is not possible to assess the direct effect of H pylori infection on acid secretion from that study without knowing which subjects had developed atrophy . |
| 52 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 53 | If a Prime Minister indicated that he wished to resign because he was ill , the Queen would indeed be acting in accordance with constitutional law if she were then and there to accept his resignation and appoint a successor after taking whatever soundings seemed appropriate . |
| 54 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 55 | If we ask the acoustic front end to leave some of the labelling to lexical access it will do so with a vengeance since it has no way of knowing what dilemmas need resolving at the lexical level . |
| 56 | they did n't know what they cost but equally being asked to budget against not knowing what things cost |
| 57 | Appreciating what bills get enacted , in what form , and then what monies are appropriated to fund their implementation requires an understanding of how Congress conducts its business , and how its members are influenced , by the President , by other members , and by outside interests , including their own constituents . |
| 58 | Making a list also offers the opportunity to set priorities , assessing which tasks have to be achieved , which tasks can wait , and which tasks can be delegated . |
| 59 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 60 | We can not see the official tests showing which cars cause least pollution or have the best safety features . |