Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief exception is s.16(2) ( b ) , allowing the accused to borrow by way of overdraft . |
| 2 | Then give the whole roof surface two coats of bituminous waterproofer , allowing the first to dry before applying the second . |
| 3 | According to Motorola , the function allowing the 88110 to switch between different caching modes — write-through and copy-back — was faulty . |
| 4 | Applications developed using the three run on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations , IBM RS/6000s and DB2-based systems — no prices given . |
| 5 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | During 1865 , the Carriage Department completed its move from Saltley , and the company bought twenty more acres adjoining the nine bought in 1858 . |
| 7 | The plaintiffs , A and others , who were customers of the defendants , obtained an injunction before Morland J. on 13 August 1990 restraining the defendants from delivering up or disclosing to the United States court or to third parties otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs , any documents relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the defendants , and ordering the latter to return to its London branch certain documents which had been removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 8 | Is it a major historical turning-point , implying the complete re-fashioning of the economy , of production and of the geography of production ? |
| 9 | Back in program mode , operating the ME-6 begins by stepping on the bank switch to select a bank ; this causes the value/bank LED to flash . |
| 10 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |
| 11 | He accused the Chancellor of forcing the lowly paid to be the ‘ scapegoats ’ of his economic failures . |
| 12 | Kathleen took off her hat carefully in the big fireplace mirror , noting the two pin-points of scarlet anger on her own cheekbones . |
| 13 | Suggestions of obligating the unemployed to work for their benefits are quite in keeping for a Government which has done virtually everything else it can to ensure that millions of Britons will work for derisory incomes . |
| 14 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 15 | Bills of exchange : A bill of exchange is a written order ( similar to a cheque ) addressed and signed by the exporter to the importer , requiring the latter to pay on demand or at a future set date , a sum certain in money in the exporter 's domestic currency or other currency to the order of the exporter or some other party . |
| 16 | John Major , the British prime minister , created a political storm recently when he seemed in a speech to be supporting the idea of workfare — requiring the unemployed to work in exchange for benefits . |
| 17 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 18 | It 's er good composition having the two separated like that . |
| 19 | Do you see ah , th the pe , the boys and girls or the , the young people that you 're working with erm , having the same veering towards the same kind of thing , I mean , do you see pressures on on girls , towards achieving that perfect body in the way that you felt it yourself at one time . |
| 20 | he did tell me though about doing the old pencil in , in here i n't it ? |
| 21 | So far from regarding the 1935 result as a foregone conclusion , Baldwin always felt that the choice of date , intermeshed with the fostering of the suitable national mood , was one of his more considerable political challenges . |
| 22 | Inviting the elderly to live with you |
| 23 | Section C is taking the basic feel from A and making it a little busier ( this is a good technique to use over a middle 8 section in order to build it dynamically , but not lose the original direction for the song ) ; it then repeats to A and goes to the coda . |
| 24 | They paly the role of a chemical filter , modifying the incoming melt by storing and mixing magmas before eruption , and allowing melts to interact with the chamber walls . |
| 25 | On the other hand , when ο is small enough to satisfy and putting the integral becomes In spectral terms the first integral corresponds to a narrow line of infinite amplitude centred on zero frequency and it provides the mean level or direct component of the signal over all time , . |
| 26 | Despite greasy conditions which made handling difficult , Aussie full-back Gary Jack again proved an inspiration — sparking the first try after 20 minutes . |
| 27 | One moment of madness by Norwich goalkeeper Bryan Gunn resulted in the penalty which earned the Swiss the draw they craved , leaving the Scots to reflect on a missed opportunity to stay on the fringe of the qualifying race . |
| 28 | His only concession to vanity was the delicately curled moustache beneath his patrician 's nose , which concealed an upper lip he 'd thought dubiously ripe in his youth , leaving the lower to jut in lieu of a chin . |
| 29 | predisposing the Chinese to think of blood as circulating and of the earth as having condensed out of a more fluid state ( hence the fossil sea shells found up in mountains ) . |
| 30 | Barry Hills ' luck took a turn for the better at Goodwood and he 's hoping the same applies at York . |