Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borrowing or buying on credit tends to he seen in quite a different light from other consumer transactions . |
| 2 | The harassment occurs as a result of the effect various suggestions , jokes , touching or showing of pictures has on the recipient . |
| 3 | Small rock samples subjected to repeated cycles of heating and cooling over temperature ranges well in excess of those produced naturally by solar radiation failed to shatter . |
| 4 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 5 | She had large legible handwriting , was good at making lists and persevering in telephone calls to the social services on behalf of the inarticulate . |
| 6 | The constant use of ‘ he ’ when talking and writing about managers gives women and girls the impression that it is an uphill struggle if they want a career in a leadership position . |
| 7 | The problem is that the change-over from visual print to reading and writing by touch seems to be extremely difficult . |
| 8 | Even Gollum , though seen by the elves , vanishes ‘ down the Silverlode southward ’ , i.e. on the far bank , and according to Aragorn has followed the Fellowship only ‘ right down to Nimrodel ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Tapie had wanted to charge Ffr2.08 billion ( £26 million ) for his share of the sporting goods group , and according to Les Echos , he was successful on that count . |
| 10 | But is it not a fact in the real world that we prepare for war during peacetime by keeping our armed forces equipped and ready , rather than disbanding them and waiting until war breaks out before beginning to re-arm and train new forces ? |
| 11 | As we have seen , the securely married mother playing the role and staying at home has no social security entitlement ; let her ‘ break the rules ’ and leave her husband and she can draw £14 a week for herself , besides allowances for rent and for the children . |
| 12 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 13 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 14 | The first known use of carburisation and quenching of iron dates back to the eleventh and tenth centuries BC in Cyprus and Palestine . |
| 15 | Prices include postage and packing to UK addresses . |
| 16 | The national monopoly has disappeared and auctioning in France has been opened up to other Europeans , but auctioneers will remain officers appointed by the Minister of Justice . |
| 17 | But coping with stress seems to be a dawdle for McBride . |
| 18 | Food and housing are still the two biggest bills but spending on eating has dropped from 33 per cent of the weekly budget in 1957 to just under 18 per cent . |
| 19 | But learning in school seems to be quite another process , and very much less successful with the majority . |
| 20 | But talking about space holds their interest . |
| 21 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |