Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes off having a certain amount of difficulty walking , the sharp little packets no doubt cutting into the delicate peachstone flesh of his testicles . |
| 2 | Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 3 | And Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick , which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 4 | For instance , at the most basic level , the higher the profit margin the supplier receives for performing a contract , the greater the liability he can reasonably be asked to accept for failure to perform as promised . |
| 5 | For most people the tidal wave recedes after clinching a deal with the travel agent for a two week package holiday . |
| 6 | Now that Windows has proved to the world that massive files are OK ( yah ! ) you 've as much chance of being able to save a decent sized word-processed document onto a 1.44MB floppy as Madonna has of becoming a nun . |
| 7 | You 'd be amazed what he looks like sucking a dog 's toe . |
| 8 | Another service to industry , which has Just started up , looks like having a great future . |
| 9 | Offering substantial weight savings to makers of electronic packages , the material looks like having a bright future and Barry Moloney , Marketing and Sales Manager responsible for HIVOL , was kept very busy discussing possible applications and the advantages it promises . |
| 10 | It is sad that Countrywatch looks like becoming a growth industry . |
| 11 | Laser engines undoubtedly rule at this moment in time but the LED looks like becoming a strong contender with devices like the NEC SilentWriter — it 's also inherently more reliable . |
| 12 | And he looks like losing a fortune on it . |
| 13 | One girlfriend of mine recently caught the man she lives with holding a bottle of her moisturizer . |
| 14 | This starts with documenting a workable procedure and providing suitable plant and properly calibrated measuring equipment followed up with full job training . |
| 15 | As Holly puts it : " One of the skills required by the resources approach , in fact , lies in achieving a nice balance between independent working , group discussion and direct exposition by the teacher . " |
| 16 | The answer lies in drawing a distinction between Israel and its present government . |
| 17 | The art of search lies in choosing a short sequence of operators which will lead the search to a goal quickly . |
| 18 | Half the art of search lies in choosing a language which suffices to describe the task and an adequate solution but very little more . |
| 19 | In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed . |
| 20 | Although this precise reasoning is of doubtful relevance today , it contains the seeds of an argument to the effect that the public interest lies in having a society with fit and healthy citizens . |
| 21 | Much of the deterrent value of the installation lies in having a box on the wall outside the house , but for the rest it is a matter of personal inclination . |
| 22 | The secret of exciting pop lies in corralling a succession of brilliant moments . |
| 23 | The essence of the skill lies in diagnosing a mismatch between the designer 's intentions and what happens in the classroom and then deciding if the mismatch is such that modifications in the unit are necessary . |
| 24 | It is an example of construction : the liberality lies in finding a legal framework for an intention which could not work at civil law : that any acquirer of the money should be liable under the trust . |
| 25 | This concept is also linked with the concept of power , which is one used to indicate how much influence a family member has in achieving a desired outcome , by active or passive alignment with other members . |
| 26 | At the time that these discussions were taking place , SCOTVEC had embarked upon its Advanced Courses Development Programme , and the college therefore seized the opportunity to meet these local training needs by submitting a proposal for a unitised HNC in Computer Aided Engineering . |
| 27 | The second approach allows medium-term planning exercises by maximising a general welfare criterion subject to inequality constraints on key target variables and excessive policy manipulations . |
| 28 | The commonest example of a voidable contract is one where a party has by making a mesrepresentation induced the other party to enter the contract . |
| 29 | Now say a sentence which finishes by naming a member of the Royal Family : ‘ Have you ever been introduced to — - . ? ’ |
| 30 | Mira starts by drawing a genealogical tree and then proceeds to invent stories to account for it . |