Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators urging that awards made by arbitrators should enable investors to escape their debt completely , ie to pay off the whole of their outstanding loan , which will otherwise ‘ roll up ’ on a daily basis , in some cases leading to repossession . |
| 2 | Ponds can be watched for reflections on still water , sunlight sparkling and ripples caused by the wind . |
| 3 | Others call for a reassertion of ‘ traditional ’ Japanese values , saying that changes provoked by Western contact have gone too far , and that ‘ traditional , Japanese values should be reasserted . |
| 4 | Surely , nearing the end of the 20th century the concept of a ‘ 'royal ’ family is anathema to all sensible people bearing in mind the misery , suffering and hardships endured by many people today both at home and abroad . |
| 5 | Foreign lawyers will still be able to practise as such on their own within the UK without registering but solicitors employed by them will not be able to hold themselves out as such to clients of the business . |
| 6 | On company cars , he continued the policy of his predecessor , Mr Nigel Lawson , in recognising that perks provided by employers are just as much part of employees ' remuneration as salaries are , and should therefore be just as taxable . |
| 7 | Moreover , it is proposing that funds managed by the EC 's own loaning organisation , the European Investment Bank , should be made available to Hungary and Poland . |
| 8 | It offered , too , a way of testing hypotheses and theoretical predictions by providing a method for detecting whether patterns hypothesised by some theory were , in fact , supportive . |