Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the Vatican Declaration can freely admit that the former reasons for not ordaining women are now discredited , while at the same time pointing to the constancy of the tradition . |
| 2 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 3 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 4 | One method of indirectly requiring reasons is illustrated by Minister of National Revenue v. Wrights ' Canadian Ropes Ltd . |
| 5 | Full control of potentially contaminating factors was not sought , and is probably not feasible . |
| 6 | They waited , listening , as the salty night air with the sound of softly hissing waves was split by more shearing , protesting metal , and deep unearthly growls . |
| 7 | Since financial , technical , and geographical constraints did not permit efforts to be made to bring their sewage works into compliance with the existing standards ( even if time had been available ) , the only other means of demonstrably maintaining compliance was for the agencies to change the standards to fit the existing discharges . |
| 8 | But as the practice of actively collecting debts is becoming increasing common , so payment methods like direct debit , bill of exchange and the Italian Ricevuta Bancaria will need accommodating . |
| 9 | The relationship of information so obtained to processes in naturally occurring transition is sometimes debated . |
| 10 | In so doing Clovis is thought to have been unique among the kings of the continental successor states . |
| 11 | In so doing anxieties are at least identified if not solved . |
| 12 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 13 | High achievers in technically demanding fields are always intelligent although the converse is not true . |
| 14 | For a % PV flow of 20% or less , the specificity and sensitivity of this procedure in accurately detecting PVO were 100% and 90% , respectively . |
| 15 | At the other end of the eruption size-scale , time-series analysis of the rates of change of chemical signatures in lavas from continuously erupting volcanoes is now being used to reveal the storage times of magmas before eruption . |
| 16 | Cards depicting Santa in horribly compromising positions are selling like hot cakes . |
| 17 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 18 | Third party databases such as those of Infocheck have been available on Telecom Gold for up to ten years , but until recently selling services was secondary to selling Prestel and E-mail systems ( and those two delivery options functioned as discrete entities ) . |
| 19 | Slow fill refuelling at overnight refuelling points is also used by many fleets , and there is now the possibility of filling your vehicle at home overnight from your domestic gas supply . |
| 20 | Halliday had read the works of Wilhelm Reich , the German Freudian/ Marxist psychologist-cum-sexual revolutionary whose works were by then rivalling Laing 's in the attention they were receiving across the revolutionary left and the underground . |