Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why a great deal of the best police research is based on the ethnographic methods of participant observation and in-depth interviewing , and why workers in several other unusual , off-beat , difficult , or demanding occupations have been studied ethnographically , such as lorry drivers ( Hollowell 1968 ) , coal-miners ( Dennis et al . |
| 2 | On other occasions , high-pitched tones or crackling noises accompany his healing . |
| 3 | Constructional kits , jigsaws , inset boards and stacking or nesting toys provide practice in fitting , ordering and estimating shapes and sizes . |
| 4 | At 80 miles per hour , the sight of passing foliage and man-made monuments gives one a cross-eyed headache and the intense activity within the guts of the animal makes standing or walking persons feel like slightly out of balance gyroscopes . |
| 5 | The financial consequences to the parties of ordering or refusing rectification make it difficult to weigh the ‘ equities . ’ |
| 6 | Hundreds of landings on one particular airfield or gliding site do not provide good training for landing in fields . |
| 7 | There is a danger too that campaigning or lobbying activities fit uneasily with service delivery . |
| 8 | After buying or picking flowers recut stems and place in cool , deep water , up to neck level for at least two hours . |
| 9 | Photographs may be prepared by placing negative sheets or printing papers face down on the glass viewing plate . |
| 10 | Inevitably , few Georgian beerhouses or coaching inns survive in anything like their original form , having been comprehensively extended or altered in subsequent decades . |
| 11 | This might be achieved either by having all owners involved in all decisions , or having people take turns to make the decisions . |
| 12 | we find that imposing , telling or giving orders do not work well . |
| 13 | The piping or icing bags need to be washed and dried with every change of colour icing , although of course if you have a number of bags available this is unnecessary , and a variety of colours can be kept on hand at any one time . |
| 14 | Diff-locks click out when speeds or steering angles exceed preset limits . |
| 15 | In his free time he was happy to watch cartoons and videos on TV or wander around the various royal apartments , chatting to kitchen staff or watching Diana perform her ballet exercises at Kensington Palace . |
| 16 | Family , friends or working colleagues see us more clearly than we realise . |
| 17 | The abstracting and indexing journals provide from articles published in periodicals and learned journals a valuable way of finding relevant information . |
| 18 | The programme of rationalisation remits , which was begun in this region three years ago , has been essentially completed and manning levels have been reduced by 1,000 ( 40% ) since March 1990 . |
| 19 | There have been reports about an increasing number of people suffering from food poisoning and accusing fingers have been pointed at food manufacturers , distributors , caterers and even consumers . |
| 20 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 21 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |
| 22 | So protests about the Government 's proposals to charge parents for extras ' such as swimming lessons and cooking materials fall wide of the mark . |
| 23 | The combination of elegant guest rooms , beautiful gardens with water cascades , streams , fountains and reflecting pools make the hotel a really delightful spot to spend either a relaxing or energetic holiday . |
| 24 | Arguments over intellectual property rights and re-writing code have been doing the rounds of the court system for years . |
| 25 | Pioneers who are applying TQM to hotel and catering operations seem universally delighted with results , both in staff motivation and in customer satisfaction . |
| 26 | A charge of £5.00 will be made for each unfilled place in excess of 15% of the final numbers for which accommodation and catering services have been confirmed . |
| 27 | At supervisory/management level , the industry still lacks trained personnel ; it is important that the hotel and catering courses attract their fair share of the extra young people who will be gaining qualifications , that the programmes of study meet industry needs and that once these qualified people come into the industry they stay and are not lost in the first two or three years . |
| 28 | A personalized Technotile court can be laid in a day for about £1,000 ; players ' fees , seating and catering costs vary depending on requirements . |
| 29 | The music and flashing lights move in time , producing a moving blur of colours and patterns that dissolve and fade into each other But the Gyuto monks were a bit of a bore with their constant thudding chants of ‘ ohhm' . |
| 30 | From this survey it is possible , by means of complex statistical analyses , to divide people up into groups whose attitudes and purchasing habits appear to be broadly similar . |