Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such movement was especially great in the 1960s and 1970s because this was a time of rapid change in industrial technology , calling for new investments , and capitalists preferred to make ‘ drastic adjustments , such as massively replacing living labor by machines and/or disciplining their labor forces ’ ( p. 129 ) in areas of low-intensity class struggle . |
| 2 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ Thoo should 'ave waited for me afore fastening 'im . |
| 4 | I hope to show you that there are things you can do to improve your frame of mind ; and that this is a necessary preliminary to engaging with change , whether by promoting , implementing or opposing it , in an intelligent and powerful way . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you telling me or accusing me ? ’ he asked , his eyes laughing at her . |
| 6 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 7 | If he had known his man , and cared for what he knew , he could have battered Albany 's son and heir into surrender , instead of hauling his horse off from crushing or smothering him in the mud . |
| 8 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 9 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 10 | Allen 's attitude is playfully anarchic ; with a childlike spirit she gleefully undermines the serious , ‘ male ’ pose of the sculptor by knitting socks for her concrete sculpture , or producing what even she describes as ‘ grotesque object ’ . |
| 11 | Thus hearing a word , or producing it in response to an incomplete definition , will not prime visual word recognition . |
| 12 | For the male two responses are possible : dismantling this threat by making the woman submit to his will , or fetishising her . |
| 13 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 14 | It can be a product or service you 've bought in , not necessarily a product or service that you are actually producing or generating yourselves . |
| 15 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |
| 16 | She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him . |
| 17 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 18 | ‘ Has n't anybody been looking after you or bringing you food ? ’ |
| 19 | The Motor Vehicles ( Tests ) regulations 1981 exempt among other motor vehicles most public service vehicles ; goods vehicles of an unladen weight exceeding 1525 kg ( about 30 cwts ) ( other than dual purpose vehicles ) ; articulated vehicles ; when submitting a vehicle for a test after prior arrangement or bringing it away ; where a test certificate is refused — taking it for repair by prior arrangement or bringing it away and also taking it , by towing to be broken up , and motor traders when repairing motor vehicles etc . |
| 20 | The Motor Vehicles ( Tests ) regulations 1981 exempt among other motor vehicles most public service vehicles ; goods vehicles of an unladen weight exceeding 1525 kg ( about 30 cwts ) ( other than dual purpose vehicles ) ; articulated vehicles ; when submitting a vehicle for a test after prior arrangement or bringing it away ; where a test certificate is refused — taking it for repair by prior arrangement or bringing it away and also taking it , by towing to be broken up , and motor traders when repairing motor vehicles etc . |
| 21 | Finally , we can reverse the terms of the argument , insisting that women 's difference from men is not the cause of sexism but an effect of sexism ; social practices like not hiring women in certain positions or allowing them to become leaders have the effect , over time , of producing the very differences which are then used to justify the original discrimination . |
| 22 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 23 | It was a gamble between being bumped off for lying earlier or allowing him to think he was gaining no advantage by my presence in the household . |
| 24 | He had never , before , seriously thought that she would get beyond the occasional sisterly peck on the cheek , or allowing him the privilege of listening to her troubles . |
| 25 | Chetnik paid the rates not appreciating that by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act rates were not payable on any unoccupied hereditament for any period during which the owner was prohibited by law from occupying the hereditament or allowing it to be occupied . |
| 26 | Champion of the underdog and believer in the nobility of the common man , he lost no opportunity to teach his daughter the importance of never giving in or allowing herself to be beaten by lack of courage . |
| 27 | When the price has been agreed your agent will confirm it in writing and notify your solicitor — but wait until the buyer 's survey has been completed and the house given the OK before celebrating or allowing your agent to put up his ‘ Sold Subject to Contract ’ sign . |
| 28 | and all this scrapping and burning your tongue or catching your l lip of something |
| 29 | Body language can suggest you have like jumping out a window or hanging themselves or whatever . |
| 30 | In Home Corner areas , replacing lids , using cups with saucers or hanging them on hooks provided . |