Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd delight in things like withholding the mail , or telling the cook off for making the food look too attractive or for giving people too much . |
| 2 | Whether a post-Higher year is spent in the sixth year or in gaining experience away from school is essentially an individual decision . |
| 3 | Genetic variation could result from a balance between mutation and selection , or from balancing selection alone ; given the general difficulties of finding the causes and genetic basis of polygenic variation , it is hard to take this line of evidence further . |
| 4 | Firms can choose to supply an overseas market either by exporting to it or by locating production there . |
| 5 | Your design can be created , using bricks and stones to make interesting shapes or by using herbs alone . |
| 6 | Polylines can efficiently describe shapes made from visibly straight lines , such as rectangles , or by using points sufficiently close together , complex curves such as spirals . |
| 7 | The need for experiments on awake animals is sometimes questioned on the grounds that the answer could be found by studying isolated cells in dishes or by using computers instead of real brains . |
| 8 | Even if you only cook properly at weekends , it is something , and you must not neglect your health by eating processed foods all the time or by skipping meals altogether . |
| 9 | Some physicians devalue dietary therapy for Type 2 diabetes by either commencing oral therapy concomitantly with diet or by giving diet alone no more than a month 's trial . |
| 10 | Side cutters are useful for cutting both cable and flex to length , and for trimming cores neatly when they have been connected to terminals . |
| 11 | If we are in a happy partnership , whether married or living in a close relationship with a man or woman , retirement years are a time to look forward to and for doing things together . |
| 12 | It seems to be part of the Woolf proposal for compacts and for making prisoners fully aware of what is happening in prisons and what the plans are . |
| 13 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 14 | Conspicuous support for sporting and other activities has contributed to the rising public approval of the Quit campaign and of antismoking measures generally . |
| 15 | Willie picked up a soft brown-paper package and with trembling fingers slowly untied the string . |
| 16 | So , I gather that Jeffrey would like to say a word or two , and at this stage , and if he would he would be welcome to do so , meanwhile er , as I 've said , I hope you will join me in wishing er , the Bishop god speed , and in wishing Jeffrey very well for the future . |
| 17 | The Sisters of Marie Répatrice who look after the Shrine , were helped as usual in the organisation of the celebration , and in serving refreshments afterwards , by the ‘ Friends of the Shrine ’ who do so much , in so many ways , to support it . |
| 18 | If the task required of the listener is to shadow the message then the articulatory loop will be a useful device in establishing an appropriate lag and in maintaining information long enough for it to be recognised and repeated . |
| 19 | In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) . |
| 20 | Both initiatives are sponsored by the Training Agency and they share similar objectives in attempting to provide greater coherence between education and training , and in making education more aware of the needs of employers and of young people 's needs in the employment market . |
| 21 | Both initiatives are sponsored by the Training Agency and they share similar objectives in attempting to provide greater coherence between Education and Training , and in making Education more aware of the needs of employers and of young people 's needs in the employment market . |
| 22 | Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs . |
| 23 | The model must also be consistent with the existence of a magnetic dipole source at no great depth , have plausible relative abundances of the various elements , and in representing Jupiter today can be the outcome of a plausible evolution from the birth of Jupiter to the present . |
| 24 | They frequently exchange preliminary information across stages , which apparently enables them to shorten lead time without much confusion downstream and without incurring costs commonly associated with an early commitment to die engineering . |
| 25 | Much more important would be the effect of the panel 's decision on the drug 's use in developing countries and on licensing decisions still pending in both America and Canada . |
| 26 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 27 | And on housing estates all along the line , residents came out to watch the strange scene . |
| 28 | And on housing estates all along the line , residents came out to watch the strange scene . |
| 29 | More often his thoughts , feelings and responses centre on his inner world , his imagery and on understanding phenomena both inside and outside himself . |
| 30 | She was looking forward to it — and to seeing Martin again . |