Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to his work promoting the Contagious Diseases Acts , in the 1860s he also served on the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association , helping to draft legislation on habitual drunkenness , infant mortality and the examination and registration of midwives . |
| 2 | Important for a firm that focusses on generating repeat business from big blue-chip companies rather than one-off jobs from smaller organisations . |
| 3 | The chapter on Explaining made trouble for Positivist ideas of explanation but did not suggest that they might be beside the point . |
| 4 | Malcolm Watters , senior careers tutor , careers , said : ‘ There is considerable local and national concern about the drop in number of students applying to study physics at advanced level in sixth form colleges . |
| 5 | Reorganise staging to make room for over-wintering plants |
| 6 | In seeking to acquire protection against arbitrary power and undue repression , subjects , particularly vulnerable minority groups , need to be constantly sensitive to the use of this and other rights . |
| 7 | In particular it is seeking to establish comparability of vocational qualifications beginning with hotel and catering , motor vehicle repairs , construction , electrical , agricultural and textile trades . |
| 8 | Instead of seeking to replace work with constructive leisure , its loss becomes the subject of ‘ grief ’ , made worse when the individual comes into contact with the retirement-idleness attitude within social life . |
| 9 | Ronni smiled a light smile , seeking to pour oil on troubled waters . |
| 10 | Fighting confirmed reported disagreements over the proposed partition , with Serb and Croat forces both seeking to win control of north-eastern Bosnia , a potential corridor between Serb communities in eastern Croatia and Serbia proper . |
| 11 | The first public meeting to draw attention to local concern over the proposed mining for andalusite on Tomduff Mountain , near Borris , Co . |
| 12 | Refusing to give contraception to young girls is not going to stop sexual activity ; all it means is that more run the risk of pregnancy , which can be far more dangerous . |
| 13 | Both topics have attracted the attention of scholars seeking to interpret crime in other parts of the world . |
| 14 | He began to etch into local notoriety via a series of small ads in the music press seeking to swap info with fellow New York Dolls fans . |
| 15 | The description of the brewing process varies from brewery to brewery : in some mashing , boiling and fermenting taking place in open or partially-open vessels . |
| 16 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 17 | The N 2 -Fixation Specialist/Soil Microbiologist is part of a multidisciplinary team seeking to improve sustainability of regional dryland farming systems with specific application to legume biological nitrogen fixation and nitrogen cycling . |
| 18 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 19 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 20 | There are also signs that the GMTS process is helping to identify talent from internal sources to meet the requirement for future general managers . |
| 21 | His anonymous volume of pen portraits , The Whispering Gallery by an Ex-Diplomat ( 1926 ) , led to his arrest on a charge of ‘ obtaining or attempting to obtain money under false pretences ’ , but under cross-examination his engaging candour appealed to the jury which found him not guilty . |
| 22 | There , in a raised garden overlooking the drive , and sheltered by umbrella pines , the servants were waiting to serve food at little tables scattered around haphazardly . |
| 23 | It 's quite a shortsighted policy , if you look at the er , because , if you erm , if you introduce subsidies to actually protect the domestic industry then that 's often going to cause retaliation from other countries and therefore effectively sealing off any trade , any effective trade at all , and consequently because there 's no competitive pressure on the domestic industries , they 're not going to feel the need to make themselves more productive , which they would do when there was competition . |
| 24 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 25 | And , as I say above , we are paid to adapt and to get on with what we 've got ; we are not going to waste energy on futile complaint . |
| 26 | In this way the UKCC not only keeps a ‘ live ’ register of practising professionals , but ensures that they are not placed in the vulnerable position of attempting to give care without sufficient up to date theoretical and practical knowledge . |
| 27 | If we read ‘ An Hymn to the Morning ’ in the light of Mira 's yearning to match Sappho in poetical sweetness , her technical rivalry with the Lesbian muse … and , more contentiously , her rivalry with Sappho as a wooer of women , her technical rivalry with the lesbian lover … the eroticism of Leapor 's textuality becomes distinctly noticeable , though it remains safely mediated by conventional landscape cathexis |
| 28 | The Germans patently are not going to allow modernisation of short-range weapons . |
| 29 | With workers attempting to increase their real incomes by militant wage bargaining , and capitalists attempting to maintain accumulation through extended borrowing , these higher materials costs could not be absorbed without a struggle . |
| 30 | And it 's something you might think about as well , sitting at home , do you think you 're going to need care in due course , and if so , where 's it going to come from ? |