Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing to be gained by attempting to force parents into accepting definitions of problems which they do not recognise as important or relevant , despite what you as a professional may think . |
| 2 | The project will examine picture naming times under conditions which vary the relations between consecutive pictures ( changing size , orientation etc ) . |
| 3 | Job fairs are usually very lively and informal , and you can roam at leisure , surveying what is on offer and gathering literature on jobs you might not have considered in the everyday run of things . |
| 4 | The SUBJECT AS AFORESAID proviso reminds the haulier that Overdrive 's rates are not based on accepting liability for matters which the prudent haulier should insure against . |
| 5 | The firms which sell the weapons , driven by profit , become very sly and can trick their governments into allowing export of goods which are illegal . |
| 6 | They said because Mr Fallon had achieved so much in bringing industry to Darlington it could no longer be treated as a depressed economic area . |
| 7 | BELOW Clearing the modern deposits from an archaeological site is often done using a machine , with an archaeologist keeping watch in case anything is uncovered by the machine . |
| 8 | You may try to do this by defining or explaining racism in terms which are specific to these two instances , but which also count you out . |
| 9 | Last week the BBC reported that Kenyan police at Liboi , on the border with Somalia , were forcibly returning refugees from Somalia who arrived three weeks ago . |
| 10 | The Chewong are a hunter-gatherer , shifting cultivating group of people who live in the tropical rain forest of the Malay Peninsula . |
| 11 | Controlling ammonia emissions and ending tax-breaks for commuters who drive their cars to work are not usually the kind of issues which sends voters raging into the polling booths . |
| 12 | Boggle Junior makes reading and spelling fun from day one . |
| 13 | Many European houses are anyway more used to peddling bonds to investors whose main interest is price , than equities to investors who must be convinced about the health and prospects of a specific company . |
| 14 | These issues are difficult enough to disentangle in contemporary research , and there are major problems in gaining access to data which would really enable those distinctions to be made in an historical context . |
| 15 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 16 | Such scalability is also at the heart of Sun Microsystems ' Sparc design , steadily gaining favour with manufacturers which formerly concentrated on PCs . |
| 17 | A fat slob of a man , peddling information to guys who carried machine guns for company . |
| 18 | What I have in mind are portfolios or fascicles of data and tasks representing modules of enquiry which deal with issues of current pedagogic concern in a format which , being based on the pragmatic model that I have proposed , draws the teacher into the appraisal and application of ideas . |
| 19 | It is from this perspective that it becomes possible to understand the basis of the distrust of totalizing systems of knowledge which depend upon theory and concepts , so characteristic of Foucault or Lyotard , both of whom have been predominantly concerned with the attempt to isolate and foreground singularity as opposed to universality . |
| 20 | surely that also suits the , the people at the bottom because i be because the , the government is , is producing work in effect it means that the people at the bottom have jobs and , and can earn money and , and so they 're , they 're lot actually improves . |
| 21 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 22 | However , they believe there could be some hope of recovering lines of credit which were extended by International Signal and Control to a number of European intermediaries . |
| 23 | A corollary to the restricted data approach found in much of Chomskyan linguistics is the importance placed on writing rules of grammar which are fixed and true 100% of the time . |
| 24 | In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him . |
| 25 | I am writing in reply to your letter of 30 June 1993 to our Director enclosing copies of leaflets you have recently produced . |
| 26 | So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be . |
| 27 | However , one can say that a logically inconsistent set of attitudes bears the inevitable seeds of emotional disharmony within the individual and is likely to make effective action impossible by promoting patterns of behaviour which prevent each others ' successful issue . |
| 28 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 29 | As the skin matures these fibres become distorted , causing loss of elasticity which often results in wrinkles & lines and should be supplemented to ensure a younger , smoother look and feel . |
| 30 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |