Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 2 | The court may set aside the demand if the debtor appears to have a counterclaim , set-off or cross claim equalling or exceeding the debt demanded , the debt is disputed on grounds which appear to the court to be substantial , the creditor appears to hold some security for the debt of sufficient value , or the court is satisfied on other grounds that the demand ought to be set aside . |
| 3 | Around 1780 he began developing an apparatus for making artificial mineral waters equalling or exceeding the quality of natural spa waters , and was the first person to use a force pump to carbonate under pressure . |
| 4 | Some people are just much more sensitive and perceptive in transmitting or receiving data than others . |
| 5 | The mnemonics ensure that after a minimum of experience with the structure it is no longer necessary to refer to Figure 11.3 when transmitting or receiving . |
| 6 | Surface decoration was achieved by modelling and lost-wax casting , by repoussé work , the infill of champlevé work by gold or niello or by incising or punching designs . |
| 7 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 8 | There has always been an international dimension to civil litigation , and States have found it desirable to devote some efforts to easing the difficulties experienced by their citizens and business enterprises in pursuing or defending claims involving persons or entities in other countries . |
| 9 | Financial assistance out of public funds should be available for every individual ( not corporations ) who , without it , would suffer an undue financial burden in properly pursuing or defending his or her legal rights ; |
| 10 | Disinfectants act on bacteria in two main ways namely as cell toxins poisoning or destroying the cell or by interfering with their metabolism . |
| 11 | The opportunity to display extracts from an online thesaurus in windows is particularly valuable , since it is often useful to be able to view the thesaurus alongside other screen displays in either indexing or searching . |
| 12 | Virtually everybody involved in administering or advising on the tax was influenced by his work . |
| 13 | They argue that causation involves one event ( the cause ) generating or producing another event ( the effect ) , and that we can obtain direct knowledge about this causal generation : we do not have to infer causality on the basis of temporal priority . |
| 14 | Finally , the heterogeneities and instabilities of associative feminist psychologies help them avoid reifying or reducing historically and theoretically important distinctions between symbol systems , and between discourses . |
| 15 | So , when intercepting or correcting on ADF , the pointers will show the Track QDM/QDR on interception . |
| 16 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |
| 17 | They were notoriously warlike , subduing or assimilating lesser tribes and raiding sketchy Roman settlements to loot silver and make it into ornaments to add to their warpaint . |
| 18 | We have n't got any special er way of er preaching or teaching different age groups . |
| 19 | Fr Leonardo Boff , a renowned Brazilian liberation theologist condemned by the Vatican to a year 's silence in 1985 [ see p. 33823 ] , was banned by the Vatican with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 , from preaching or pursuing his theological teaching at the university in Petrópolis , 50 km north-east of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 20 | Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering . |
| 21 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 22 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 23 | Furthermore , there is no general rule of law preventing a former employee canvassing or doing business with customers of his former employer . |
| 24 | Here , in the work of Picasso , the device of fusing or merging the subject with its surroundings allows the painter to insist on the surface unity of the picture but also has the same effect of allowing the spectator to reconstruct form beyond the boundaries stated . |
| 25 | One of the problems confronting a teacher who wishes to present effective arguments for maintaining or expanding the teaching of history in a school or college is the way in which many people perceive the subject . |
| 26 | It should also be remembered that anyone , married or single , who is maintaining or accommodating a dependent relative over 65 ( or a mother or mother-in-law on her own ) is entitled to claim a tax allowance . |
| 27 | What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence . |
| 28 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 29 | Maintaining or increasing the number of pupils is crucially important in providing the ‘ bread and butter ’ finance for the school . |
| 30 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |