Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comparative method in sociology will be discussed in chapter 3 , but essentially consists of the sociologist assembling data about several societies or social contexts and comparing them with each other , with the intention of explaining the causes of any variations . |
| 2 | In Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) Ltd v Frank Weisinger [ 1988 ] IRLR 60 Millett J when discussing a clause which prevented soliciting ( but not dealing ) appeared to give judicial approval to the defendant 's understanding that the clause prevented him approaching a client on a secret or confidential basis and telling him that " he can still advise him but only if the client makes the approach " . |
| 3 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |
| 4 | At first , they went to the bond markets , especially offshore ones , raising dollars or Swiss francs and swapping them for yen . |
| 5 | Conventional procedures for studying receptive fields involve presenting small spots of light or dark , or light/dark edges and moving them around until you find the point in the visual field where they affect the response of the cell . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not see anyone doing that this time and providing it is a reasonable pace I will be at the front . |
| 7 | I 'll have to watch out with Robert and that lot because telling it to Mr , he 's worried , is it a story and all that lot . |
| 8 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 9 | This project was designed to study the feasibility of recruiting unemployed French and German teachers and retraining them for jobs as teachers of their native languages in Uk schools . |
| 10 | In many ways I would prefer to live in one place , but taking old and derelict houses and making them relive again is a source of enjoyment to me . |
| 11 | The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns . |
| 12 | There being , normally , little substance to the third-reading debate , the practice is now developing of merging the report and third-reading stages and treating them , in effect , as one . |
| 13 | A woman is claiming four policemen broke her arm and two ribs while arresting her for a crime she did n't commit . |
| 14 | But what this meant in reality was recruiting a thin stratum of educated and loyal workers and removing them from the factory floor . |
| 15 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 16 | As its name suggests , the course was a mire with a stream running through it but after considerable levelling and draining it was established in the shape of a horseshoe . |