Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the game is mental — being able to keep your head clear and retain a certain outlook on life should mean that bad times are neither so frequent nor so lengthy as they would be if you start examining your technique or doubting your ability . |
| 2 | This may mean demolishing the building or returning it to its original use . |
| 3 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 4 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 5 | For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them , see Games on page 71 . |
| 6 | Cross-examined by Herbert Kerrigan , QC , Mr Taylor denied making up his story or leaving his former job because of ill-feeling with the accused . |
| 7 | No statute in terms prohibits offenders from telling their story or expressing their feelings . |
| 8 | Honesty or making yourself cheap . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if the incentives are too high , they may themselves distort the market , by giving the beneficiaries an unfair advantage or enabling them to operate in a way which does not reflect genuine supply and demand . |
| 10 | If , instead of persuading B to break his contract or causing him to do so by direct unlawful action against him , A brings about the breach of the contract between B and C by operating through a third party , X , A may still be liable to C , provided unlawful means are used . |
| 11 | Such agreement would not be fully enforceable : the court will not compel a partner to remain in the firm against his will , but an unwilling partner would have to choose between honouring his contract or laying himself open to an action for damages for breach of contract . |
| 12 | Alternatively , by resting pasture or grazing it with another host , such as sheep , which are not susceptible to O. ostertagi , until most of the existing L3 on the pasture have died out . |
| 13 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 14 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 15 | Soon he 'll be free again , back on the street , onstage with just his acoustic guitar or roaming his private kingdom at one with nature , able to find out how he really feels about things . |
| 16 | We all need a myth of some kind , whether it 's in living forever , in Communism or thinking you come from Sirius . |
| 17 | The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement . |
| 18 | Hardly a month goes by without an event having you uncorking the champagne or counting your remaining blessings . |
| 19 | It is always prudent to wash any foodstuffs before cooking or eating them and to wash your hands to reduce the amount of residues adhering to the skin . |
| 20 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 21 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 22 | Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters . |
| 23 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 24 | THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BUILDING & FLYING YOUR OWN PLANE , by Geoff Jones . |
| 25 | The Complete Book of Building & Flying Your Own Plane is n't perfect . |
| 26 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 27 | ‘ If you have one man killed , you are not justified in bombing cities or killing lots of others . |
| 28 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 29 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |
| 30 | The government was essentially faced with the option of winding down MDC 's operations or extending its boundaries . |