Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the fact that this ignores the possibility that shareholders may have other objectives in investing ( such as opposing investment in countries practising apartheid , or opposing the manufacture of armaments or cigarettes , etc. ) the profit-maximization norm does not provide a hard guideline as to how directors should exercise their discretion . |
| 2 | Whether you are proposing or opposing an application , what is the best way to influence the decision that is eventually made ? |
| 3 | working for or assisting a competitor . |
| 4 | As the government forces recaptured towns and villages , the army reportedly held ‘ kangaroo courts ’ and executed anyone suspected of joining or assisting the invasion force . |
| 5 | Section 83 stipulates that section 82 does not preclude the disclosure of information in any case in which disclosure is for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Bank to discharge its functions under the Act . |
| 6 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 7 | The Remmelink Commission , set up in January 1990 , published its conclusions on Sept. 10 , 1991 , calculating that in the Netherlands there were annually some 2,700 cases of euthanasia or assisting the death of patients , and some 1,000 cases of intervention to terminate the life of patients unable to express their wishes . |
| 8 | The basic rule in s.179 is , however , subject to s.180(1) , as amended , CA 1989 , which permits disclosure of the relevant information in a number of circumstances eg. for the purpose of enabling or assisting an overseas regulatory authority to exercise its regulatory functions . |
| 9 | Section 84 provides that section 82 does not preclude the disclosure by the Bank of information to a numerous class of specified persons , including , most significantly , ‘ for the purpose of enabling or assisting an authority in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom to exercise — ( a ) functions corresponding to those of — ( i ) the Bank under this Act : ’ subsection ( 6 ) ( a ) . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 11 | The basic level ‘ is that level of abstraction that is appropriate for using , thinking about , or naming an object in most situations in which the object occurs ’ ( Rosch , 1978 , p.43 ) . |
| 12 | THE PARALLEL TURN & MASTERING THE MOUNTAIN |
| 13 | For one thing , I 'm all in favour of workless Sundays though I draw a line at taking the cockerel out of the henhouse or padlocking the children 's swings on a Saturday night . |
| 14 | Many successful businesses have been founded on the single item of information that no one is carrying out a particular service or producing a particular product . |
| 15 | A spreadsheet makes operations like totalling a column of numbers or producing a bar chart a straightforward operation — SuperCalc 5.5 makes them incredibly quick and easy due to the icons in its new Tool Bar . |
| 16 | If the ‘ need ’ can be clearly justified on social grounds then there is a prima facie case for either altering the distribution of income ( if that would permit the need to be translated into monetary demand ) or producing the product for social non-commodity distribution ( which would presumably involve nationalisation of the enterprises concerned ) . |
| 17 | She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her . |
| 18 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 19 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 20 | Fellatio ( kissing , licking or sucking a man 's penis ) is risky if semen or pre-cum ( a light fluid which is secreted before a man ejaculates ) gets into cuts or sores in the mouth . |
| 21 | Fellatio ( ‘ cock sucking ’ , i.e. tonguing or sucking a penis ) . |
| 22 | There is only a small risk of HIV transmission through oral sex ( licking or sucking a man or woman 's genitals or anus ) , although other sexually transmitted diseases , like syphilis and gonorrhoea , are easy to get this way . |
| 23 | Plant pests are herbivores , eating foliage or sucking the sap , while predators are carnivorous and live by feeding on plants pests , directly or by laying their eggs among colonies so that their larvae have a ready supply of food . |
| 24 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 25 | The monograph and exhibition catalogue , broadly discussing the same group of pictures selected from Magritte 's oeuvre , adopt rather different approaches to their subject , and will be favoured , respectively , by a readership enjoying the labyrinthine mind of a great scholar or preferring the clean presentation of information and explanation in a sequence of numbered catalogue entries . |
| 26 | It is a common strategy , for example , to think of analysing or decomposing a construct into a number of dimensions or variables . |
| 27 | The process of expanding or decomposing the model should be carried out by developing a root definition for each sub-system , taking into account that these are subject in turn to ‘ monitoring and control ’ at the new level of definition . |
| 28 | Underestimating the speed of events or overestimating the efficiency of personnel are factors which lead to slippage in any work programme and their early detection is essential to effective progress monitoring . |
| 29 | Further , some instructions halted the computer if an error occurred , such as attempted division by zero , whereas in a third generation computer this would be dealt with by setting a flag or generating an interrupt . |
| 30 | This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened . |