Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a stage in book binding where after sewing the sheets are pressed to expel air . |
| 2 | It is a mental and imaginative experience ; it is awareness , and it may express itself in drawing and painting , or it may express itself in writing , or in moving , or in singing or in playing . |
| 3 | A student can get in touch with the Counselling Service by phoning or by calling in to either office . |
| 4 | It moves to the right as text is typed and may increase in size in the selection ( highlighting ) of text for editing or for executing commands . |
| 5 | They held that there is a limited set of fundamental ethical terms , such as good , bad , right , wrong , ought , duty , such that you can not explain what one of them amounts to except either by appealing to intuition of some simple non-natural property , or relation , to which it refers or by defining it by way of some other ethical term of which this is true . |
| 6 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 7 | For instance , winking groups with other ways of warning or of doubting or of sharing complicity , depending on a context which is a matter not of physical description but of the form of social intercourse . |
| 8 | It er it 's difficult to tell y'know whether people are under attributing or over attributing . |
| 9 | The child needs to be motivated and so receiving rewards for going to the lavatory when reminded or for staying dry can be an incentive for the younger child . |
| 10 | The energy of the falling grains may not be absorbed in rebounding or in starting saltation by impact , but may be used in disturbing a number of grains , which are driven forward for a short distance on the surface . |
| 11 | Such ‘ temporary exceedances ’ , said DoE , could be dealt with by natural denitrification in storage reservoirs , by blending or by using other sources . |
| 12 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 13 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 14 | Hick made a break through into this problem as he proposed that in making choice reactions , subjects gain information at a constant rate . |
| 15 | Those who are working and hoping , however feebly , to encompass the lives of boys and girls with wholesome atmosphere must know that in regard to sexuality two factors stand out . |
| 16 | How do I know that in choosing Direct Line I wo n't get into the same trouble ? ’ |
| 17 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 18 | These orders do not contain a blanket exemption for agreements that come within their terms but provide that in deciding whether or not an agreement is registrable no account shall be taken of any restriction : which limits the extent to which the person accepting the restriction may compete with the acquired enterprise , or may be engaged or interested in , disclose information to , or otherwise assist any business which so competes , provided that the restriction subsists for no longer than the permitted period . |
| 19 | In an elegant series of experiments Conrad ( 1964 ) demonstrated that in transposing visually presented data the errors are more likely to be in numbers or letters of similar sound rather than those which are of similar appearance . |
| 20 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 21 | Is the answer not to keep such breeds of dogs , or to accept that in doing so there is going to be a consequence of damage to the environment , albeit localised and perhaps , in terms of our global worries , extremely small ? |
| 22 | The court refused to accept that by petitioning for divorce she had revoked her consent . |
| 23 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 24 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 25 | If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard . |
| 26 | It was claimed that in developing an aggressive new foreign policy , he was disregarding nationalist dreams of recovering control of the mainland . |
| 27 | It is claimed that by having sharply separated black and white regions of the skin , rotary breezes will be created between the black and white zones and that these will have a cooling effect . |
| 28 | Although SSAP 2 was said to have been applicable , the important caveat was added that in accounting to the Government for the purpose of producing the appropriation accounts , the accounting was on the cash basis . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend realise that in dealing with things that we hold so dear we want to make sure that the European Community gives us a good bargain and that what we give to it will be given back to us ? |
| 30 | I realise that before making any commitment you 'll want to take advice , but perhaps you could let me have your initial response ? ’ |