Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas , according to Berkeley , are particulars whose significance is explained by saying that they stand for the things they represent . |
| 2 | This status should be updated as the problem is assigned for solving and action is taken to resolve the problem . |
| 3 | You will probably find yourself working as part of a small team within the office and a great deal of emphasis is placed on ensuring that these teams work well . |
| 4 | 1988 ) , the emphasis is placed upon defusing and resolving situations and avoiding arrest . |
| 5 | Our present campaign is waged against targeting or means testing of benefits and pensions . |
| 6 | Although this 20 per cent is intended for teaching and research , much of it is used to make up deficits in general health-care budgets . |
| 7 | The difference is that whereas the policeman is justified in acting as he does , the citizen is merely excused from criminal liability on the grounds that he lacks mens rea . |
| 8 | As a member of that Council I emphatically deny that he has had any mandate , or that he is justified in assuming that the Council as a whole takes his view . |
| 9 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 10 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 11 | ‘ When those concerned turn their attention to this problem , they may find they have to make a distinction between litigation in which there is a direct public interest in the result and that in which the public interest is limited to ensuring that an adequate system of justice is available . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Provided that where by the partnership contract an option is given to surviving or continuing partners to purchase the interest of a deceased or outgoing partner , and that option is duly exercised , the estate of the deceased partner , or the outgoing partner or his estate , as the case may be , is not entitled to any further or other share of profits ; but if any partner assuming to act in exercise of the option does not in all material respects comply with the terms thereof , he is liable to account under the foregoing provisions of this section . |
| 13 | The parent function of the corresponding tree is given by putting and , where . |
| 14 | If the scope of reason is confined to refining and systematising imperatives and deducing them from each other , how can it ever change their relation to the spontaneous ? |
| 15 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 16 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 17 | Announcing a 13% rise in net profit yesterday , Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd chief executive Michael Gale said that Cable & Wireless Plc had no plans to cuts its 58.5% stake in the company further , and is committed to staying after the territory returns to China in 1997 . |
| 18 | Legal & General is committed to ensuring that you are treated in a well-informed manner … with fairness , with courtesy and with a respect for your insurance needs . |
| 19 | ES is committed to ensuring that the risks of assaults are minimised through training , understanding our clients , safe office layouts and procedures for dealing with threatened or actual assaults . |
| 20 | We have seen that , according to Althusser 's reading , Marx is committed to arguing that practices are mutually dependent , and some of the links between them are displayed in Althusser 's attempt to clarify the relations between the practices of capitalist society . |
| 21 | If a recording artist comes to me without a publishing deal , I always insist IRS is considered for publishing as we can pay better percentage splits , do just as good a job , and help invest in an act 's career at a vital time . |
| 22 | Equally , it is possible to deny it , and the lowest layer of the level-of-analysis problem is broached by asking whether individual actors construct institutional rules and roles , or vice versa . |
| 23 | The first part of the puzzle is resolved by recalling that only free neutrons decay ; the ones locked up in atomic nuclei are stable on any timescale comparable with the age of the Universe ( about 15 billion years ) although they may remain stable for ‘ only ’ about 10 years overall . |
| 24 | For what he understands , and what they apparently do not , or will not , is that the whole lovely complex crystal machine in which they live is built upon suffering and death . |
| 25 | The Cellophane which is made for wrapping and packaging is therefore protected by a very thin coating , on each face , of a water-resistant lacquer . |
| 26 | Many of us would like to know what happens to the information that is collected during questioning when there is no subsequent conviction . |
| 27 | I have an aversion to noisy cameras , and this one rings several decibels before it 's done with selecting and focusing the lens , and winding on the film . |
| 28 | In the case of ‘ case-hardened ’ plywood the edges of the tubes are bent over and turned inwards by the hot plattens of the press which makes the plywood , so that the glue is prevented from penetrating and the joint has no strength ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ publicly exposes ’ Proof of ‘ publicly ’ is done by showing that the exposure was to more than one person . |
| 30 | According to St Augustine , ‘ fellowship among men is secured by giving and receiving ’ . |