Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action . |
| 2 | In the limit of slowly moving bodies and weak gravitational fields this equation will be shown to reduce to Newton 's law of gravitation . |
| 3 | My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Community life can not continue successfully unless there is some such orderly structure of mutually reinforcing expectations and ‘ roles ’ , some organization of interlocking parts which click together to form a harmonious whole . |
| 5 | Television , especially highlights both the strengths and defects of the modern player , and the papers continue the process of daily analysing players and teams . |
| 6 | After a spate of database crashes , and suffering the frustrating and time-consuming business of repeatedly reconstructing files and indexes , I was forced to consider that the mains supply to this particular computer was simply not clean enough for the computer to use . |
| 7 | Although they were later acquitted of illegally importing arms and ammunition for use in the North , they were dismissed from the cabinet for their part in the affair . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the essential social situation remains they same — they are marginal and disposable as workers , they are isolated , even more than women with young children who do n't work , for they do n't have time to meet others in parks and playgrounds , and they have the stress of simultaneously minding children and working . |
| 9 | PACT data showed that the two practices were close to the average practice in respect of overall prescribing costs and patterns . |
| 10 | To sum up the hybrid theory that has emerged : it is that non-reinforced pre-exposure to a stimulus will allow the formation of potentially interfering associations and bring about a loss of associability . |
| 11 | [ … ] Legal prohibition is an important way of either preventing individuals and firms from creating external costs , or forcing the perpetrators to internalize the cost and so reflect them in market prices . |
| 12 | In the late sixties the initial effect of overaccumulation was a period of feverish growth , with rapidly rising wages and prices and an enthusiasm for get-rich-quick schemes . |
| 13 | Windowed environments , or the ‘ graphical user interface ’ of modern operating systems , give a natural platform for simultaneously displaying results and probing deeper into underlying relations . |
| 14 | Any exertion would result in long coughing bouts and Mother never complained about the hours of sleep lost each night as she ran up and down stairs with bowls of steaming inhalants , aspirators and balsams in an attempt to ease his suffocating agony . |
| 15 | Knowing the ages of the children is also crucial in quickly planning toys and activities for them to do during the session . |
| 16 | Small ( 5 ft. 2 in. ) , composed and neat beside her fellahin workers — girls in brightly ballooning skirts and a few lusty pick-men — her command of them was absolute . |
| 17 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
| 18 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 19 | TSMChange , which helps monitor and implement structural changes should be available by Christmas ; TSMChange , a graphics tool for visually representing structures and their components is planned for March 1993 ; and TSMLevel , which warns when the targets and constraints laid down in service level agreements are threatened should also be available by March . |
| 20 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 21 | Do many people walk into a city centre police station at 10.00pm wearing shorts and EB 's ? |
| 22 | Both have begun to produce a sensation of relief by arbitrarily juxtaposing lights and darks rather than by using shading in a naturalistic way . |
| 23 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 24 | An Enhanced Routing/Load Balancing is designed to ensure that system resources are used effectively by intelligently allocating resources and an Automatic Throughput Optimization feature is designed to improve system utilisation , ensure consistent response time and cut overall application development costs in a dynamic workload environment by adding , or subtracting copies of the application to meet current demands . |