Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There are also transaction costs involved in acquiring and/or disposing of the requisite foreign exchange .
2 Connery is n't playing with politics or toying with a party allegiance ; he opinion is founded on his life experience .
3 Before considering future development it would be advisable for those agencies already providing or assisting in the provision of day care to evaluate current service to determine its efficacy .
4 MAS 's role in advising on or assisting in the preparation of a client 's Information memorandum does not involve the issuance of a published report nor does it involve any association with the client 's Information memorandum beyond that set out in the terms of engagement , which should be appropriately limited .
5 The following procedures should be adopted when advising on or assisting in the preparation of an Information memorandum :
6 ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it .
7 The law section three of the criminal law act nineteen sixty seven reads a person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large .
8 These included conciliatory actions such as showing concern for , comforting , helping or apologizing to the other .
9 So , though the place was as ill-furnished as it was ill-lit , they hung around there , putting books away in lockers , glancing at newspapers , knocking out their pipes or whipping through the odd bits of marking .
10 In almost all cases this venom is used as a means of defence , and most people are stung after handling or stepping on a fish .
11 — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails .
12 Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security .
13 This leads to an immense amount of detailed design in terms of the location of every bolt , nut or fastening throughout the whole 17m boat .
14 Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore .
15 When sideways movement or typing in a wide document reaches the edge of the window the text scrolls horizontally in steps to reveal parts of the typing line which had been offscreen .
16 AN INDEPENDENT Scottish government would remove any form of privatisation or franchising from the rail network , the Scottish National Party declared yesterday .
17 ‘ An early priority for an SNP government in an independent Scotland would be to remove any privatisation or franchising from the Scottish rail network and to expand the public service to meet the requirements of Scottish industry wishing to exploit the European single market . ’
18 It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody .
19 ‘ I might be blowing a bit or struggling against a younger player and Stuart will feel we need a fresh pair of legs .
20 Just as the ‘ Verbivore ’ phenomenon is caused through a flattening or levelling of the modulations of air waves , so the hierarchy of narrative levels is ‘ flattened ’ such that it becomes impossible in any given instance to determine whose account we are reading or whose mind we are supposedly ‘ inside ’ .
21 I do feel on the question of whether we are bringing people into the Harrogate area or catering for the needs of the residential population .
22 It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day .
23 Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain .
24 The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’
25 Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) .
26 Each affix is obligatorily attached to a stem containing or consisting of an open set item : dis-obey , un-popular , central-ise , dismount-ed , long-er , etc .
27 There is a large literature focussing or touching upon the social effects of professional and middle class migrants on rural communities ( see , for instance , Ambrose 1974 ; Connel 1974 ; Crichton 1964 ; Forsythe 1974 ; Harris 1974 ; Newby 1977 , 1979 ; Newby , Bell , Rose and Saunders 1978 ; Pahl 1965 ) .
28 Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline .
29 For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war .
30 Should be done by carefully dabbing or sponging with a wool — or silk-compatible cleaning solution for removing each specific substance ( wine , grease , coffee , etc. ) until as much as possible of the discolouring substance has been removed .
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