Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 2 | After drying and sintering at high temperature in a nitrogen atmosphere , another layer of cadmium and tellurium is sintered on , followed by a topping of carbon . |
| 3 | It could be the result of using or working on certain materials , e.g. lead ; of labour in a harmful environment , e.g. damp , ill ventilated , fume or dust filled ; of harmful working postures ; or of the repetitive use of particular muscles or organs . |
| 4 | It may be as fleeting as a look of acknowledgement when passing the patient 's bed ; or it may be less transient , for example helping the patient through the stages of accepting and coping with chronic illness ; or when a patient has a mental illness , it may be the major emphasis for most interactions . |
| 5 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 6 | There are two main methods of representing and reasoning with diagnostic knowledge . |
| 7 | After a restless night of tossing and turning on lumpy , wet French soil , Charlie was woken at four , and in turn kicked Tommy , who simply turned over and went straight back to sleep . |
| 8 | Among these were the freedom of association , of forming and participating in political parties , and of expression and movement . |
| 9 | Nausea of vomiting or retching with great anxiety . |
| 10 | Given the conventional wisdom that any change in tax affairs should be put into effect before 5 April , allied to Bernard 's natural impulsiveness and Laura 's love of buying and doing up old houses , the haste with which the Ashleys moved out of Britain in the spring of 1978 is easily understood . |
| 11 | On 29th October , 21 days after the accident , some of the miners thought they could hear the sound of moaning and worked with renewed vigour . |
| 12 | Unlike [ 9 ] , these sentences do not treat the two events of shutting and clicking as separate things : in this respect , as in other respects , [ 12 ] and [ 13 ] are just different ways of expressing the same sense as [ 3 ] . |
| 13 | The report argued that , in secondary modern schools , the top third of pupils were capable of taking and benefiting from external exams below GCE level [ the future CSE , first examined in 1965 ] , but that the majority of pupils there should be spared them . |
| 14 | They felt that after the war the government should take powers to control the volume of investment , and the resources of the economy should be centrally assessed and allocated with the aim of reaching and staying at full employment . |
| 15 | The latter two are particularly relevant to the idea of identifying and dealing with major stressors . |
| 16 | Not when — if , perchance , Labour Members were in that position in 20 years ' time , would they be prepared to have the whole system of assessing and adjudicating upon genuine claims destroyed by the campaigns that are being organised in some parts of this country ? |
| 17 | It provided corporates with a fast and easy-to-use PC network-based solution to the problem of obtaining and reporting on financial information from their domestic and international subsidiaries . |
| 18 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 19 | Also join us on the Saturday evening for the simple , yet deeply satisfying activity of telling and listening to good stories . |
| 20 | Where part of a building is let off as a separate factory the landlord will be responsible for providing and maintaining in efficient working order and good repair sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the factory ( Factories Act 1961 , s7(1) , s122 ) . |
| 21 | Since the state was largely responsible for initiating and paying for mass education , it was able to establish greater control over teachers . |
| 22 | There was an initial suspicion among teachers at all levels , including some heads , that coordinators were agents of the LEA , charged with identifying and reporting on inappropriate practice . |
| 23 | Among other things , I 'm going to have you charged with trespassing and interfering with private property . ’ |
| 24 | The procedures for closing and disposing of redundant Anglican churches are long and cumbersome . |
| 25 | Some universities take longer than others to notify Aslib of thesis titles , and some delay lending theses to the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC ) for microfilming and listing in British Reports , Translations and Theses ( BRTT ) . |
| 26 | By examining the tensions and difficulties inherent in the role fulfilled by scientists in such groups , this study highlights problems that scientists experience in communicating and co-operating with lay persons even when good initial grounds for mutual understanding exist . |
| 27 | The government estimates that at least 10,000 people will be prohibited from political activity — such individuals will also be prevented from speaking or writing on controversial issues unless the council deems it part of their job . |
| 28 | There is some variation between its being compulsory for all students and its being only for those who need help in reading or preaching in public . |
| 29 | In identifying and responding to real needs he did not shrink from touching the painful spots . |
| 30 | The local Trades Councils were nonetheless able to organise quite effectively around demands for city improvements and municipalisation of utilities , campaigned against excessive salaries for local bureaucrats , and had an important role in discussing and pushing for parliamentary reform . |