Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [that] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the London and East Midlands electricity boards are involved in field trials using frequencies that cover almost the entire spectrum available for mains signalling . |
| 2 | Given the requisite financial resources , there is no great difficulty about launching exhibitions that have wide public appeal . |
| 3 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 4 | That way , you wo n't feel too badly about picking flowers that have only just opened , and the rest of your garden will be left in all its glory . |
| 5 | This is a particularly important part of a research exercise , for results often take the form of associations , that is , establishing factors that go together . |
| 6 | Even after your job has clearly come to an end , you need to beware of breaking obligations that remain legally binding upon you , such as the duty not to disclose trade secrets . |
| 7 | To prevent problems you must take care in buying shoes that fit well . |
| 8 | ‘ The pleasure is getting things that cost very little , ’ she says . |
| 9 | The studies themselves have taken various forms , some directly addressing the issue of creativity and psychosis , others reporting results that bear indirectly on it . |
| 10 | Hair and make-up artist Roxanne New transformed Fiona using cosmetics that cost only £50 . |
| 11 | The monoplacophorans really reached their acme in the Cambrian , with curious forms having shapes that have never been paralleled in other molluscs ( Yochelcionella ) . |
| 12 | It is all part of living and breathing , doing things that come naturally . |
| 13 | These are good tactics : she is reinforcing actions that compete directly with unacceptable behaviours . |
| 14 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 15 | The forward pair of fans supply air to two swivelling nozzles that point rearwards during cruising to produce extra thrust . |
| 16 | Nearly a century and a half later , John Taylor and Company are still at work making bells that go all over the world , not only to churches and cathedrals , but to town halls , universities and other secular buildings . |
| 17 | I have known a ferret to bolt a fox and there are known instances of ferrets bolting foxes that have subsequently been shot . |
| 18 | It is no good the Minister , whenever he is found to be wanting and to be wrong , starting to hurl abuse across the Chamber or making allegations that have absolutely no substance . |
| 19 | The linguistic model will provide the basis of the narrative model , and Todorov justifies this procedure by making claims that go far beyond the usual assumptions of structuralism . |
| 20 | Evidence for the third possibility , cell selection , comes from regrafting cells that have already migrated and begun to differentiate , to the site of neural crest formation in a younger embryo . |
| 21 | For the producers of material X , for example , although not currently selling X to exporting firms , can argue that , if they were not supplying firms that sell only on the home market , those firms would have to buy imported supplies of X , and that , if the firms that now supply X to exporting firms were unable to do so , they would be able to take their place . |
| 22 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 23 | ( f ) To support family planning as a health measure in maternal and child health programmes as a way of reducing births that occur too early or too late in the mother 's life , of increasing the interval between births and of diminishing higher birth orders , and by giving special consideration to the needs of those in the postpartum and/or breast-feeding period ; |