Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this indeed is the pattern , it is clearly important to know whether or not regulation is effective in maintaining standards and what its impact is on the supply of services . |
| 2 | Chemists are interested not only in isolated and dissociating species but also in colliding molecules and their reactions . |
| 3 | Saying he planned to continue to practise law , he said he was ‘ very proud ’ of his track record in helping companies and their shareholders . |
| 4 | And , we 've seen through their advertising in targeting women that they 've tried to post the image if you smoke , you 're more likely to be slim and slender . |
| 5 | Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 held that the second stage of the Ghosh test does not have to be given in handling cases if there is no evidence that the accused did believe that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 6 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 7 | I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience . |
| 8 | There 's no use in keeping things that you 're not gon na use okay ? |
| 9 | Those in the high-risk category are , broadly , those which invest in trading companies or which lack an assured means of turning this unquoted stock back into cash . |
| 10 | Enterprise Projects are currently running in departments throughout the University , developing the curriculum and teaching methods to assist students in acquiring skills so they graduate with a degree PLUS . |
| 11 | For such a task crude approaches to semantic processing are preferable to the detailed analyses found in understanding systems since they are computationally tractable , robust and are not restricted to a small language domain . |
| 12 | In Germany we have had great difficulties in opening branches as our representatives are threatened with expulsion and in Denmark one of our organisers was actually expelled by an order of the Secretary of State of that country " . |
| 13 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 14 | In certain locations there are clearly planning problems , environmental problems that sort of thing , in establishing parks but I believe er , and I know a lot other people in the leisure business believe that there will be a growth . |
| 15 | And in the final part of our series tomorrow we look at the difficulties the RSPCA can face in securing convictions when they take cruelty cases to court . |
| 16 | The reasons given can be gathered under four broad heads : it would be a ‘ perilous adventure ’ to superimpose one part of a foreign system of law ( that is , the English law of mortgage ) upon the different system of land law in Sri Lanka ; the evidence about delay in enforcing mortgages and its adverse effects on the confidence of investors was thin ; the English rule , that a mortgagee should be able to sell the property on default without intervention of the court , would lead to breaches of the peace ; and there was a need to protect borrowers . |
| 17 | Their hands were encased in closefitting gloves and their heads were grotesque in respirators with ribbed breathing tubes and large , goggling eye-pieces . |
| 18 | They hold that we may , with justification , be certain of beliefs which , we admit , risk falsification , or that we may be justified in holding beliefs although there are none of which we are certain . |
| 19 | There 's no point in asking questions that we ca n't answer . |
| 20 | Lastly , I think Jim Perrin is being more than generous to suggest that climbers and walkers have an exemplary record in observing agreements and their respect for the environment . |
| 21 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 22 | ‘ No point in having brains if you ca n't use them . ’ |
| 23 | On the contrary , there is no point in having authorities unless their determinations are binding even if mistaken ( though some mistakes may disqualify them ) . |
| 24 | Therefore , my self interest in having siblings and my mother 's self interest in having children are the same . |
| 25 | In plate interiors horizontal plate movements play a less direct role in creating landforms and it is the processes which generate the broad warping and vertical movements of the crust , that is , the mechanisms of epeirogeny , that are of most concern . |
| 26 | There is little point in reaching conclusions unless you do something better or differently as a result . |
| 27 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 28 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 29 | Because they were specialists , the welfare rights officers rapidly became skilled and knowledgeable in interpreting regulations as they applied to mental handicap and established valuable ‘ precedents ’ as time passed , but obtaining adequate benefit support nonetheless became more difficult in the closing phase of our research due to changes in the social security system . |
| 30 | For example , the incidence of group work appeared to have declined although caution had to be exercised in interpreting results because there were inherent problems in sampling particular weeks for study ( see Chapter 8 ) . |