Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could go on about singing harmonics and endless sustain , but just take it from me that this amp covers the whole guitar tone palette from clean to mega-dirt with considerable ease . |
| 2 | However , people often object to having to take a bath after using pesticides because this conflicts with their traditional notion of hot and cold . |
| 3 | Segmentation was inhibited at points which were definitely not segmentation points , with the aim of avoiding segmentation errors and speeding computation since this limits the possibilities . |
| 4 | With fewer throwouts , we 're saving money and that increases our profit sharing . ’ |
| 5 | Shops will have to clearly display signs warning customers that those paying by credit cards may have to pay more . |
| 6 | polytechnic students were rather more likely to be seeking employment than those studying IT at university ; |
| 7 | Of the 380 members of the General Practitioners in Asthma Group , 183 expressed an interest in the project , of whom 103 returned recording booklets for analysis and personalised feedback ; 352 practitioners out of the 2000 who received an invitation returned a postcard expressing interest and 115 returned study booklets . |
| 8 | I know from bitter experience there is nothing more frustrating that to keep catching fish that just miss the line when the fellow next to you only gets one , but its nose nudges over the line . |
| 9 | Using LOGO or similar to help a real floor turtle draw a pattern is a well-known use of IT at all levels . |
| 10 | Both can be used as a way of paying debts and both have their advantages . |
| 11 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 12 | — humans are able to interpret non-grammatical language , relaxing constraints as necessary to handle ill-formed input . |
| 13 | For instance , if one says to them , you at least have the advantage of speaking Russian and this entitles you to a certain authority in the area of Eastern European art , one seldom gets the reply : yes , that is our speciality , a contribution we could make . |
| 14 | People that you knew , you know , getting wires and that to say that their menfolk had either been killed or were missing or some like that . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 16 | Nasal oxygen supplementation significantly reduces this problem and should be routinely used in patients over the age of 60 undergoing ERCP as this reduces the sedation risks of the procedure . |
| 17 | It would be wrong to believe that the body clock develops only in response to a rhythmic environment and the effect upon the sleep/wake and feeding rhythms that this produces . |
| 18 | The White Paper , while not excluding local authority provision , stresses the need for actively supporting the private and voluntary sectors : ‘ The statutory sector will continue to play an important role in backing up , developing and monitoring private and voluntary care facilities , and providing services where this remains the best way of meeting those needs . ’ |
| 19 | Within our own School two of us are actually senior examiners for one examining board and this brings us into contact with teachers and indeed candidates . |
| 20 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 21 | While their aims and activities differ slightly , all are clubs in the sense of recruiting members and most provide a variety of discount opportunities . |
| 22 | The ‘ inciting ’ factors are triggering episodes and many include frost , insect attack , drought , mechanical injury or an episode of high pollution . |
| 23 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 24 | News from Plymouth of five Wolfe/Möwe destroyers in the estuary caused some concern , but these ships were sent to investigate what mines had been laid by the force — mistakenly thought to be sailing west when U-593 signalled her base . |
| 25 | Your pension is calculated as a proportion of your final pay , which could mean literally the last year you work or for example ( and this is a requirement for controlling directors and those earning over £100,000 ) the average of three consecutive years during the last ten . |
| 26 | Other policy measures are needed , both negative involving sanctions and positive involving rewards . |
| 27 | Rutter ( 1979 ) devised an interview training programme for medical students involving a history taking scheme and two video-taped 15 minute diagnostic sessions one week apart , with discussion feedback based on a nine-point method of scoring information elicited . |
| 28 | We have found an effective way to show the effect of different choices is to split the class into groups working with different bases eg. some using FIFO and some using average cost . |
| 29 | Currently the export trade has been hit by lower prices for both steam coal and coking coal but this has not prevented a number of large and expensive development projects aimed at significantly increasing output . |
| 30 | Local planning authorities may need to control aspects of the design of housing estates where these have an impact on neighbouring development or agricultural land , for example access or overshadowing . |