Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This can take the form of assessing the situation or bringing into consideration other factors ( political climate , human values , competitors ' stance ) which can not easily be quantified .
2 ABBEY National is offering to meet up to £250 of legal and mortgage valuation fees for customers who are remortgaging or switching to Abbey National .
3 Compiling an elaborate data base or investing in systems akin to those of very large companies or the Civil Service would clearly be uneconomic and unjustified for a medium size group .
4 Recoup is working on these problems and collaborating with Reprise International Plastics Recycling Ltd which is making a substantial investment in a plant to clean and separate plastics .
5 I. Lazarev Finance A. Khlystov Trade Y. Saburov Economics and forecasting V. Mangazeyev Foreign economic relations M. Kuryachev Chamber of trade and industry A. Zakharova Apparatus of USSR Cabinet of Ministers
6 Will he consider some way to enable those firms to fund the costs of developing and bringing into use new and competitive machinery long before their existing equipment is out of date ?
7 To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper .
8 Despite the difficult trading conditions of 1991 , Pearl announced a substantial increase in profits after tax , and according to AMP managing director Ian Salmon : ‘ The value of Pearl at the end of 1991 exceeded the amount AMP paid in its acquisition . ’
9 The bearer of the missive had been instructed upon the terms to be made and according to Patrickson other persons would be willing to join the venture .
10 Many of its tasks — such as the directing of traffic and acting as emergency social services — have only the slightest political connotations , but at other times it is involved in politics in its role as defender of public order .
11 Lacan argues that , firstly , the human infant is born pre-mature , neurologically deficient and lacking in motor sensory coordination and , secondly , that the subject 's experience of itself is not auto-generated but derived from others .
12 You can water-ski , take off on a boat excursion or just savour the pleasure of swimming and snorkelling in crystal clear seas .
13 Britain simultaneously wrote to West Germany , stressing its opposition to a common market of only six countries , and asking for West German support for a much broader free trade area based upon the OEEC states .
14 The ratio of subunits in the endonuclease was determined by separation on SDS-PAGE and staining with Coomassie blue .
15 The subplot was eating and drinking in places other than the familiar punctuation marks on the Gorblimey-by-Nite tour for chalet girls ' nite off .
16 And playing for time.The musical moves to save the rainforests .
17 It is a town that has changed subtly with the subtly changing times and yet has maintained a distinct identity and a strange diversity of atmospheres , steeped in interest and beckoning to times ancient .
18 The constitution and working of tribunals other than the ordinary courts of law , constituted under any Act of Parliament by a minister of the Crown or for the purposes of a minister 's functions .
19 By reporting the character ’ s thoughts in the third person , past tense , as in traditional narrative , but keeping to vocabulary appropriate to the character , and omitting some or all of the tags that normally introduce reported speech ( like ‘ he thought ’ , ‘ she wondered ’ , etc. ) an effect of intimate access to the character 's inner self is produced , without relinquishing the task of narrating to the character entirely , as in the pseudo-autobiography or interior monologue .
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