Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 2 | The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser . |
| 3 | A commonly demonstrated feature of the system is the real time manipulation of video windows , allowing them to be re-sized , zoomed , tiled and shrunk using extremely simple control commands . |
| 4 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
| 5 | The two-seater training planes — to go into service from 1994 — have night vision equipment allowing them to be used on a battle frontline . |
| 6 | Resits , as opposed to fail grades , may be awarded to students , allowing them to be reassessed without retaking the complete module before the next meeting of the examinations committee . |
| 7 | If so , Britain would be in the position of forbidding its own manufacturers from making unsafe goods while allowing them to be imported . |
| 8 | This allows expectational effects to be incorporated in the consumption , investment and capital flow equations , providing an indication of the importance of such effects in the regulation of the economy , and allowing them to be taken into account in policy design . |
| 9 | The care with which they examined and photographed those bushes before allowing them to be removed brought Paviour quivering to the spot . |
| 10 | They will build special buses with a pneumatic suspension allowing them to be lowered to the ground for the easy loading of wheelchairs . |
| 11 | In 1903 the Persian government stopped the import of these aniline dyes and brought in laws , which were strictly enforced , ordering dye-houses found using them to be burnt to the ground . |
| 12 | She mentions that Southmead Hospital is considering changing to a one year block contract as a means of empowering house officers and helping them to be recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 13 | Consequently , rather than allowing ourselves to be drawn into a metaphysical wild-goose chase we should concentrate instead on exploring the structural features of the minimal conceptual apparatus upon which any significant choice of ontological objects must depend . |
| 14 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 15 | But are we allowing ourselves to be carried away by false vanity ? |
| 16 | The point of the approach is to apply an attitude of critical affirmation to the different traditions enabling them to be studied and discussed in a way which is affirming of members of the traditions without succumbing to naivety or blandness . |
| 17 | Virus particles placed in the beam of electrons cast shadows which could then be photographed enabling them to be seen . |
| 18 | The ducks are then frightened into flying down the pipe which narrows at the end , enabling them to be caught . |
| 19 | So gradually a fuller understanding of the actions of the remedies is obtained enabling them to be used with greater accuracy . |
| 20 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 21 | Each molecule has its own distinctive wavelength , enabling them to be identified . |
| 22 | The ‘ Essex ’ flanges are specially constructed in sections , plus two rubber jointing washers , enabling them to be inserted and fixed from outside the cylinder . |
| 23 | The forces of repulsion keep the particles buoyant , in suspension , enabling them to be rinsed away so completing the cleaning process . |
| 24 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
| 25 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 26 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 28 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 29 | Aindow is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he had been hit by the joyriders ' car . |
| 30 | He is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he was hit by the stolen car . |