Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 16th , he made a speech in parliament accusing associates of Boris Yeltsin of illicit dealings in this ‘ extremely valuable raw material . ’ |
| 2 | When you are on to more advanced machine knitting and attempt some intarsia knitting , that is , knitting blocks and strips of colour adjacent without floats at the back , by means of an intarsia carriage , you will be able to make coloured cable strips without knitting the contrast separately simply by knitting strips of colour side by side and cable crossing them . |
| 3 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong . |
| 5 | A major focus is the Edinburgh University Biosphere Atmosphere Programme , directed toward understanding fluxes of carbon dioxide on vegetation . |
| 6 | The process of socialization involves forming ideas of family life in children by a variety of devices including the stories that children read . |
| 7 | Girls Into Science and Technology ( GIST ) was the first major schools-based project addressing problems of sex stereotyping at school , and was an example of ‘ action research ’ in education ; the project simultaneously took action to improve girls ' achievement in science and technology and investigated the reasons for their under-achievement . |
| 8 | A technique , based on the lowering of the vapour pressure , called vapour pressure osmometry is a useful method of measuring values of M n from 50 to 20 000 g mol -1 . |
| 9 | This project , which is being carried out by George Bain is concerned with analysing patterns of union growth at an aggregate level and also at the level of individual occupations and industries . |
| 10 | * A protocol governing emissions of nitrogen oxides in Europe came into force on Feb. 14 . |
| 11 | The process of turning pieces of metal type into a magazine page goes on at ‘ the stone ’ . |
| 12 | Indeed , I have in the past done so , filing pages of foolscap paper with words spangled as wildflower , natural and sweet . |
| 13 | The second part of the chapter considers the main demographic and household characteristics of the population aged 65 + as these also are important when considering aspects of health status in later life and the need for health and social care . |
| 14 | However , by the early 1980s some LEAs began to adopt more prescriptive approaches , insisting on school policies fostering racial equality within given time limits ( e.g. ILEA , Brent ) , prescribing aspects of headteacher behaviour to ethnic minority parents ( e.g. Bradford ) , making certain forms of racist behaviour a disciplinary offence ( e.g. Manchester ) or establishing central mechanisms to decide upon school suspensions and so removing power from Heads and Governors ( e.g. Birmingham ) . |
| 15 | On Aug. 19 French military transport planes began flying planeloads of food aid from Djibouti to Baidoa , where they handed the food to ICRC representatives . |
| 16 | This is not a ‘ piece of cloth … intended to show the skill of the person who made it ’ ( Cobuild ) , but a series , initially of four titles — Prepositions , Modal Verbs , Reporting and Homonyms — providing extracts of concordance data from the Cobuild database . |
| 17 | Increased longevity results in increased dependency in old age , while on the other hand , increased investment in health has been accompanied not by falling but by rising rates of sickness absenteeism from work . |
| 18 | Various ways of studying water strongly suggest that it is in a similar category — that is , it is a fluid containing clusters of water polymers of varying sizes which are continually changing and reforming . |
| 19 | ‘ Or a playroom , ’ she suggested , wiping remains of caramel custard from around Thomas 's mouth . |
| 20 | The Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , reported that about 5,000 students were building barricades of garbage cans in front of the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 21 | Detectives are also viewing hours of video tape from cameras covering the grounds of the four offices involved . |
| 22 | ERR also described new regulations aimed at cutting emissions of nitrogen oxides as " a temporary fix " . |
| 23 | A West Belfast councillor , Una Gillespie , claimed the circumstances of the shooting also pointed to the killers having details of patrol patterns in the area . |
| 24 | When the dam had collected enough water behind it , it was smashed apart letting tons of water race down the gillside to scour out the bed of the stream , exposing the lead-bearing rocks . |
| 25 | There were , how ever , considerable practical problems for the Central Authority in disciplining this instinct by devising measures of performance alternative to the profit yardstick , The Area Board barons liked to keep the Central Authority distant from their own fiefs , but they did come to court to bargain on the issues which had to be resolved between them ; and when they did this personal and political factors could be as important as commercial or economic ones . |
| 26 | We turn now to a series of cross-national comparative studies carried out with great care and detail by researchers from the Henley Management College in Britain , the International Institute of Management in Berlin , and the Laboratory for the Sociology of Work , Aix-en-Provence , comparing forms of work organisation in British , West German , and French factories . |
| 27 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 28 | Lynn Davies ( 1984 ) describes the ways in which , within one largely working-class comprehensive school , differing versions of femininity interrelate with differing levels of academic achievement . |
| 29 | Belting tales of outlaw attitude like the born-to-be-wild rocker ‘ Ride Into YOur Town ’ are juxtaposed to beautiful ballads , like the piano-accompanied ‘ How Does It Feel ’ ( ‘ … to ruthlessly steal my heart like a thief in the night ’ ) — . |
| 30 | Belting tales of outlaw attitude like the born-to-be-wild rocker ‘ Ride Into YOur Town ’ are juxtaposed to beautiful ballads , like the piano-accompanied ‘ How Does It Feel ’ ( ‘ … to ruthlessly steal my heart like a thief in the night ’ ) — . |