Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a strategy recognises a clear role for school health education but emphasises that achieving an impact on the minority of young people who choose to smoke will require more substantial and comprehensive interventions . |
| 2 | The high incidence of prostatic obstruction in this study emphasises that finding a raised creatinine concentration in any male necessitates careful palpation of the abdomen and prostate . |
| 3 | But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal . |
| 4 | Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement . |
| 5 | Destroying several small Dwarf holds and looting the tombs of Dwarf ancestors , his forces roamed unopposed whilst the Dwarfs gathered their forces . |
| 6 | If you 've ever wondered what Joan Didion shouts while having an orgasm , she can tell — the names of Herman Melville novels . |
| 7 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 8 | The visually handicapped pupils attending an ordinary school may be greatly helped by a physical and social environment that has been planned with some sensitivity to their special needs while retaining a challenging or ‘ normal ’ character . |
| 9 | Tunisia faces a major challenge in meeting the country 's water needs whilst preventing the destruction of wetland ecosystems . |
| 10 | The uniform group of objects that the programmer has when using an object-oriented model , also reduces the sting of the ‘ elegance and simplicity ’ argument used against the proponents of semantic data modelling . |
| 11 | This transition the train goes through is like the experience one has when watching a train embark on a voyage oneself . |
| 12 | Discretion is concerned with the element of choice that an individual has when making a decision . |
| 13 | What an observer sees , that is , the visual experience that an observer has when viewing an object , depends in part on his past experience , his knowledge and his expectations . |
| 14 | What counts as giving a reason ? |
| 15 | The loving parent who tries to shield the child from harm to such an extent that he becomes timid and anxious can cause as many problems as the thoughtless and impatient adult who thinks that telling the child he is stupid will spur him on to greater efforts . |
| 16 | It is just that he no longer thinks that filling every cavity is one of them . |
| 17 | The doctor may exercise therapeutic privilege if he thinks that revealing a particular risk would be adverse to the patient 's health ( Canterbury v Spence ( 1972 ) 464 F 2d 772 ) . |
| 18 | The centre says that taking the guess work out of fishing will save the industry tens of millions of pounds every year . |
| 19 | But , now it 's in , Britain is coming under increasing pressure to support a single European currency ; this scheme has already raised the hackles of Mrs Thatcher who says that sacrificing the pound will undermine Britain 's right to manage its own economy . |
| 20 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 21 | He says that getting the children out quickly was a priority — fires in houses tend to spread very fast and he did the right thing . |
| 22 | Sulentic is not exaggerating when he says that understanding the nature of the link between NGC 4319 and Mrk 205 ‘ is surely one of the most important problems facing extragalactic astronomy ’ . |
| 23 | Laser beams consist of photons which , though small by atomic standards , have a cumulative inertial effect , Dr Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado , who heads one research group , says that cooling an atom with a laser beam is like trying to slow down movement of a heavy object by bombarding it with ping-pong balls . |
| 24 | Mike says that filming the hunt was be far the hardest job he has ever done , and he was certainly relieved to see the last of running through the forest during the rainy season . |
| 25 | Harada says that checking the ratio of type L to type D in an amino acid analyser tells the age of the specimen . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister says that signing the treaty is merely taking an option on the right to join . |
| 27 | British Telecom says that selling a service in which the equipment is in the company 's own offices stands a better chance of success . |
| 28 | Club captain Jim Wilson says that winning the Irish youth championship gave the club ‘ a great boost . ’ |
| 29 | The standard approach to trade reform assumes that devaluing the currency makes firms competitive . |
| 30 | Government policy assumes that increasing the ratio of private sector funding into the social housing process will enable more houses to be developed from available public funds . |