Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early post-war years , matching or percentage grants by the centre met a share of approved local spending . |
| 2 | The UN Security Council should take a proactive role in peacekeeping before confrontation develops into conflict . |
| 3 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , a depreciation of the dollar tends to reduce eurobond issuance , especially for dollar issues , suggesting that depreciation leads to expectations of further falls and hence losses for non-dollar based investors . |
| 5 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 6 | The upper part of the footprint at sites 7 and 8 reappears faster than the lower portion , suggesting that actinomycin dissociates from site 8 faster than site 7 . |
| 7 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 8 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 9 | By applying tapping , pummelling and squeezing strokes to many different areas of the body , you will eventually feel both supple and relaxed . |
| 10 | Then work steadily through all the entries , noting and raising requisitions on any matters that call for this . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon plans to ask Christopher Chope to look into plans for road narrowing and speed humps at Lakeside , Darlington . |
| 12 | A few days after his mother died , a friend recalls that he gazed lovingly at a photograph of his mother , while pondering whether life continues after death . |
| 13 | The tree structure illustrated in the drawing is a communication and support system designed to nourish each operating unit providing that unit stays in its place . |
| 14 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
| 15 | This mismatch between speaking and spelling leads to SPELLING MISTAKES . |
| 16 | It is particularly interesting that this strengthening or preservation applies to the conjunction of two stimuli , as shown in the strabismus experiment : cells that respond to joint excitation of the two eyes are normally found , but are missing if joint excitation has been made very improbable by misaligning the eyes . |
| 17 | There is a well-known saying that life begins at forty ! |
| 18 | I only eat at the Vetch-Retch these days when someone else is paying , which is much the same as saying when England wins at cricket . |
| 19 | Assuming that uniformity exists for research funding by the EC , as an example , the EC Nuclear Fission Safety 1991–94 programme states that in order to qualify for research support projects ‘ your proposal must be transnational and involve at least two independent participants from different member States ’ , ie three in all . |
| 20 | It is not a work or method study exercise , but a way of establishing and monitoring agreed measures of performance , as a basis for determining whether action needs to be taken to bring this performance within desired parameters . |
| 21 | Jools Holland offers an alternative musical excursion on Saturday in Mister Roadrunner ( 9pm , C4 ) , with Stephen Fry narrating as Jools rides around Tennessee and Mississippi on his Vincent Rapide in search of musical adventures . |
| 22 | But two entirely new yards were opened towards the end of the decade , showing that BR envisages at least some need for shunting for the foreseeable future ! |
| 23 | On May 25 contra leaders had suspended an earlier agreement to disband , signed on May 4 , claiming that government guarantees for their protection were insufficient and that troops of the Sandinista People 's Army ( EPS ) had massacred 14 demobilized contras in Waslala , 300 km north of the capital , Managua . |
| 24 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 25 | During this time Mr Reynolds was taught breathing and leg exercises by the physiotherapist to prevent post-operative complications and the stoma care nurse , together with the ward nurses , taught him about having a colostomy and caring for it . |
| 26 | ( The sanctions committee had referred this issue to the Security Council on Sept. 12 after exploring ways of specifying whether food needs in iraq should be categorized as humanitarian . |
| 27 | These relationships may be studied with a view to ascertaining whether implementation proceeds in terms of the even-handed justice that Max Weber suggested is , or should be , characteristic of bureaucratic administration . |
| 28 | Mr Lang will criticise Labour for concentrating on attacking the Government over unemployment without recognising that wealth has to be created in order to increase the number of jobs on offer . |
| 29 | There needs to be some method of ensuring that interest compensates for delay after this date . |
| 30 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |