Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The characteristic that courses for career women , courses reclaiming the curriculum on behalf of women 's history and culture , and courses providing useful knowledge and skills for women reconstituting their traditional roles have in common is the recognition that some women at least have expectations , aspirations and preoccupations which are not well catered for in the mainstream provision of adult education . |
| 2 | WHATEVER the good intentions and fine words about women doing anything a man can do , there are still industries where men would be surprised to find themselves dealing with a woman . |
| 3 | Marital strife , early , abnormal or unwanted pregnancies , anxiety , depression or drug dependency can compound the risks of parents abusing their children . |
| 4 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 5 | The advocates of massive aid hint at all sorts of threats facing us if we do not hurry to the rescue , but are the dangers from a collapsing state greater than what could be expected from a revitalised Russia ? |
| 6 | It gladdened him to see how even these degraded surroundings were touched by a curious beauty , as he watched the little gangs of miners making their way home , black as sweeps , in the white snow at twilight . |
| 7 | We get loads of kids coming round big gangs of kids scaring everyone . |
| 8 | in their own consciousness and between the covers of novels bearing my name , somewhat inaccurately , as author . |
| 9 | What is more , schemata need not be limited to unordered catalogues of people and things within a stereotyped situation , or stereotyped sequences of events telling us what is likely to happen next . |
| 10 | To do so means looking at unions not as combinations of workers defending their interests but as male-dominated organisations which , in the name of the family wage and the male breadwinner ( Land , 1980 ) , have developed customs and practices that keep highly skilled and well paying jobs for men and relegate women to jobs of low pay and low status . |
| 11 | He might have had thoughts of destiny but it is unlikely that even he could conceive that troupes of girls bearing his name would still be dancing nearly a hundred years later . |
| 12 | ‘ All employers must assess any forseeable risks to employees using their workstations and premises , and should inform employees of the results of these assessments . |
| 13 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 14 | Out of 110 regurgitations that Wilkinson witnessed , 77 could easily be understood as cases of mothers feeding their children , and many other instances of blood-sharing involved other kinds of genetic relatives . |
| 15 | In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities . |
| 16 | Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks . |
| 17 | Shipments of products meeting their standards are expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 18 | I 've just passed my A levels I 've got loads of papers going what can I do . |
| 19 | The street 's real wide , and there 's loads of cars jamming it up . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom based itself in that regard on international law and on the need for the flag state effectively to exercise jurisdiction over the owners , charterers and operators of vessels flying its flag . |
| 21 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 22 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 23 | The recurrent descriptions of bishops restoring their cities may be inspired more by notions of the ideal bishop than the reality of an individual 's activities . |
| 24 | However , once he gets his base plan on paper , probably by September , he 's going to start making the rounds of vendors seeking their cooperation in getting all the plugs from device drives to protocols filled beginning at the desktop level . |
| 25 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |
| 26 | Politicians , who appeared on our doorsteps like snowdrops nodding their heads wisely in the cold seasonal winds , have disappeared as promptly with the warmer weather . |
| 27 | I felt if I gripped it too hard it would break or crumple , and I would see the sinews like wires holding it together . |
| 28 | What is the attitude of companies to headhunters poaching their people ? |
| 29 | On the other hand , examples like ( 33 ) could be responses to questions containing what ? |
| 30 | There must exist a genuine link between the state and the ship ; in particular , the state must effectively exercise its jurisdiction and control in administrative , technical and social matters over ships flying its flag . |