Example sentences of "or [prep] [v-ing] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 2 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 3 | Tablets should not be touched ( tip them in the cap of the container and drop them into your mouth for chewing ) and do n't drink or eat anything 20 minutes before or after taking them . |
| 4 | A GIS is capable of identifying such slivers and allowing the user the choice of leaving them as they are or of replacing them with an average boundary position . |
| 5 | But whereas other recent Lotus DOS products such as 1-2-3 Go and 1-2-3 Release 2.4 come with Wysiwyg already attached and invoked so that the spreadsheet is automatically in graphics mode , when you install Symphony you have the option of using separate text and graphics mode or of combining them which the installation routine warns may be slow . |
| 6 | In particular most people will be unused to the assessing the impact of percentage changes in traffic on existing roads or of weighing them against the environmental costs of the new road . |
| 7 | The central characters are emphasised by pushing them into the foreground with bold biting or by establishing them appropriately within an off-beat compositional design . |
| 8 | At various times , the Unionist government attempted to curb such displays either by banning marches or by re-routeing them through areas with the same politics as the marchers . |
| 9 | Drug smuggling by swallowing packages of drugs or by concealing them in the rectum or vagina has recently received much publicity after several couriers have died following rupture of these parcels . |
| 10 | The reactions will generally not recur if 90% of the white cells are removed , and this can be achieved either by using a filter at the bedside or by removing them in the laboratory . |
| 11 | Later on , you can guide their play by , say , suggesting that they see how many little cups of water it takes to full the big jug , or by getting them to find out how long it takes to fill a floating cup with water until it sinks . |
| 12 | More often , two or more rhythms are used to give not only a more varied rhythmic interest but also a bigger canvas by using first one rhythm , then another , or by using them in various combinations and expansions . |
| 13 | It follows that the courts can contribute to the prison numbers crisis either by sending more people to prison than they need to , or by sending them there for longer than is necessary . |
| 14 | Because all shareholders will benefit if performance improves ( either through Usurping present management or by frightening them into improved performance ) , why should any rational individual be the one to incur the costs ; why not leave it to someone else ? |
| 15 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 16 | He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’ |
| 17 | These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls . |
| 18 | A leader can not try to forget that he is the ‘ boss ’ by being friendly and informal with subordinates , or by consulting them before making any decision . |
| 19 | Teachers showed a great deal of skill in dealing with the many interruptions of the classroom day , generally managing to neutralize them either by simply refusing to be distracted by them , or by transmuting them into a part of the teaching session . |
| 20 | Then he made this behaviour steadily more difficult for his birds by challenging them with blasts of air , or baths filled with water , or by making them push past weighted doors . |
| 21 | Parents , apparently desperate to seek attention , fool doctors into believing their youngsters are suffering from illnesses , either by faking symptoms or by making them sick . |
| 22 | One collects them by climbing the tree or by poking them with a long stick . |
| 23 | Bury cuttings to half their depth , either by pushing them into the soil or by lining them along the side of a slit cut in the soil with a spade ( in heavy soil , sprinkle a layer of sand at the base of the slit ) . |
| 24 | He said that he intended to repay the sums by renting out the dwellings or by selling them . |
| 25 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 26 | The simplest maze is a T-maze in which the individual has to make one directional choice ; by rewarding rats that turn one way rather than the other ( or by giving them an electric shock if they turn in the opposite direction ) , the experimenter can teach them to make a consistent and predictable choice . |
| 27 | Or by killing them . |
| 28 | Nowadays you are careful to address Interpreter Ni , Professor Chen and Party Secretary Yang by their handle as well as their name — and can cause serious insult by forgetting to do so or by introducing them to each other in the wrong order . |
| 29 | Similarly , working-class musical practice found it hard to deal with the elements of bourgeois solo song except by acquiescing in the norms of the dominant musical culture , or by treating them parodistically or through other methods of distortion . |
| 30 | In some circumstances returns will be maximised by keeping prices stable or by reducing them . |