Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelf stock for each interest category is calculated by expressing its loan component percentage as a percentage of the total open shelf capacity of the library . |
| 2 | Any state of the net is given by specifying its list of weights ( in order ) . |
| 3 | ABC is committed to expanding its European division ; that is why they have acquired Name and is why they intend to expand it ; |
| 4 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc says it is committed to diversifying its revenue stream , but did n't say what it had in mind . |
| 5 | British Gas South Western is committed to playing its part in the integrated national control network of gas supplies . |
| 6 | The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia . |
| 7 | The University is committed to continuing its support for Oxford 's great historical collections ( including the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean , Pitt Rivers , and University Museums ) , which form a national , and international , resource for scholarship , and to maintaining acquisitions in its central research libraries ( Bodleian , Ashmolean and Taylorian ) at a level commensurate with their responsibilities to the international scholarly community . |
| 8 | This record sounds jaded and forced and while Ian Astbury may wish his heart to be buried at Wounded Knee , this time he 's succeeded in putting his foot well and truly in his mouth . |
| 9 | It is strictly PPR , and a long study of Pooley 's is recommended before starting your flight plan . |
| 10 | Inferring the function of what is said by considering its form and context is an ability which is essential for the creation and reception of coherent discourse and thus for successful communication . |
| 11 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 12 | It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm . |
| 13 | BT 's prevented from using its netwrk to transmit TV programmes by its licence . |
| 14 | BT 's prevented from using its netwrk to transmit TV programmes by its licence . |
| 15 | This takes the form of direct action by A on the person or property of B whereby B is disabled from performing his contract with C , as where A physically detains B or steals B's specialised tools without which B can not carry out his obligation . |
| 16 | He 's thought of changing his will and his investments — but she is his only daughter . |
| 17 | It was the second suicide bid by Newall , who is accused of murdering his wealthy parents on the Bergerac island of Jersey five years ago . |
| 18 | Westmore James is accused of murdering his girlfrienmd 's cousin cousin by stabbing hiom inthe neck . |
| 19 | David Ashworth , 31 , is accused of murdering his ex-lover , Denise Johnston , last week . |
| 20 | Auxiliary nurse , Eddie Gilfoyle , who is accused of murdering his wife , Paula , 32 , also said he was allowed to help out in surgical operations at the hospital where he worked . |
| 21 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 22 | MARK NEWALL , the brother of Roderick Newall , who is accused of murdering his parents in Jersey more than five years ago , was arrested by police in Paris yesterday . |
| 23 | Newall , who was arrested at sea last month , is accused of killing his wealthy parents Nicholas and Elizabeth in 1987 . |
| 24 | Ronald Godfrey is accused of killing his wife , daughter and mother-in-law . |
| 25 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 26 | Since much of our ‘ intellectual debt ’ to the originators of ideas is filtered by reading their ideas in the works of others , it is difficult to acknowledge the extent to which the originators have influenced our thinking . |
| 27 | We are assuming that when a sentence is understood , it is understood by mapping its constituents into background knowledge structures ( a central notion in the framework devised by Sanford & Garrod 1981 , and some other theories ) . |
| 28 | In the world of rehabilitating addicts , this is known as showing your child tough love . |
| 29 | Mike Rutherford is known for dropping his top E string to D for a lot of his playing . |
| 30 | In order to facilitate arithmetic , an operand is specified by the address of its right-hand ( least-significant ) character , and the left-hand ( most-significant ) character of the operand is indicated by having its word mark bit set to one . |