Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area is is erm in the main , flat farmland and it would be very difficult to erm landscape effectively any new settlement proposal or roads serving it . |
| 2 | It ‘ s mainly the press having to find a story or supporters letting their bias colour their judgement . |
| 3 | They are interested in why they are paying such a high price for a service and why the company or companies providing it are making enormous profits when they are in a protected monopoly . |
| 4 | All allegations should be regarded as serious , especially those made by close relatives , friends or neighbours , or by children or parents referring themselves for help , and investigated urgently ( p.21 ) . |
| 5 | The text evolves , through successive steps of minor redrafting rather than through the more mysterious process of gestation , and with less chance of outside events or circumstances making you forget where you have got to . |
| 6 | In several primary schools children are working together at ‘ turtle geometry ’ projects in which they set their own goals and spend several days or weeks achieving them . |
| 7 | Not infrequently two or more adjacent cells may become confluent owing to the atrophy of the vein or veins separating them . |
| 8 | For instance , there are firms or individuals describing themselves as ‘ chartered accountants ’ when they are not entitled to do so and where none of the principals involved is qualified to audit . |
| 9 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 10 | Guarantees are , however , only as good as the people or businesses giving them . |
| 11 | They go out together , babysit for one another , and sometimes get mistaken for friends or sisters taking their children out . |
| 12 | During the period of the slave trade and plantation labour in the West Indies , a certain number of black Caribbeans found their way to Britain , frequently as sailors or as slaves or servants accompanying their masters . |
| 13 | Given the swamp , there had to be a stream or streams feeding it , which would run through a culvert under the highway . |
| 14 | More often the remains will be very slight , but most villages would formerly have had farms or cottages occupying what today are often grassy paddocks in gaps along the streets . |
| 15 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 16 | KEEP copies of annual appraisals or letters praising your work . |
| 17 | xlvii , Against Euergos ) by pirates , local rowdies or litigants seeking what is nowadays politely called a ‘ remedy by self-help ’ ; in which case the answer was to take refuge inside the fortified central pyrgos or tower , whose foundations are still a feature of the Vari site . |
| 18 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |
| 19 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 20 | The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S. |
| 21 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 22 | Indeed , on most crags you wo n't see anybody else other than walkers escaping their own crowds . |
| 23 | They play no direct role in the syntax of a sentence , and can be recognised by the fact that words containing them ( derived words ) can typically be replaced in any sentence , without syntactic change , by a word which does not contain the affix : |
| 24 | The Department of Transport 's Vehicle Certification Agency ( VCA ) has appointed a team of engineering inspectors , based at MIRA in Warwickshire , to ensure that companies entering their cars for Low Volume Type Approval meet a whole raft of regulations which , and we quote , ‘ demonstrate that the vehicle is constructed from parts which conform to international standards ’ . |
| 25 | Headteachers in our survey reported that condoned truancy was a problem and that parents condoning their children 's absence included those from disadvantaged areas and those from ‘ leafy suburbs ’ . |
| 26 | It creates a lot of heat , so companies using it will need materials with a greater thermal resistance . |
| 27 | Provided the relationship goes forward and is unimpeded ( it will be recognised that this description is programmatic only , that the timescale up to this stage may be much extended , and that circumstances affecting it are multitudinous — for example , moral inhibition in the single state may be overcome by marriage ) at some stage there will be direct physical contact , at first of more or less sexual content , later more directly sexual . |
| 28 | In particular these forecasts assume implicitly that individuals demanding HE will accept the best offer they receive even if the institution is not their first choice and would require them crossing the divide between the university and public sectors . |
| 29 | Second , that patients fulfilling our criteria will die in spite of sclerotherapy . |
| 30 | Measures taken by a state in order to ensure that ships flying its flag had a genuine link with it did not by any means need to contain nationality requirements such as those in section 14 of the Act of 1988 . |