Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus hearing a word , or producing it in response to an incomplete definition , will not prime visual word recognition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Home Corner areas , replacing lids , using cups with saucers or hanging them on hooks provided . |
| 8 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 9 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 10 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 11 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 12 | The putting of the city to the ban , or devoting it to the Lord , as the RSV puts it , is part of Joshua 's final orders to the people on the seventh day , and receives no mention in God 's initial instructions to him . |
| 13 | If there remains an insistent voice that keeps telling you there is something ‘ wrong ’ with sleeping twelve hours a day , or reminding you of how much there is to do , turning into a vegetable may not be an effective technique , and something more explosive or cathartic may be required . |
| 14 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 15 | He seemed more likely to blow a kiss than to throw a punch ; to be at a dinner-table than to be down in the dives ; to be rubbing shoulders than to be shoving or sticking it to the comfortable ( I almost said to the bourgeoisie . ) |
| 16 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 17 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
| 18 | comments you could consider entering it or part of it in one of the many fiction competitions or submitting it in total to a which takes fiction . |
| 19 | The LC layer is used as a shutter , blocking light or transmitting it onto a screen . |
| 20 | Some exercises they perform sitting on chairs or using them for support , but floor exercises have been out of the question . |
| 21 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 22 | Whether for chamfering , grooving , templating or using it for intricate decorative work , this machine will help you do it cleanly and quickly . |
| 23 | They 're not showing theirs or using it for any other purpose just for the dog 's benefit . |
| 24 | Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks . |
| 25 | If you try to make life complicated for yourself by using the wrong tool or handling it in an inappropriate fashion then the result is solely your responsibility . |
| 26 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 27 | On ( or soon after ) Oswine 's death Oswiu 's nephew Oethelwald , son of Oswald , secured the kingship in Deira ( HE 111 , 23 ) ( see Appendix , Figs 6.2 and 7.1 ) , though whether appointed to this position by Oswiu or acquiring it in opposition to his uncle is unknown . |
| 28 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 29 | She could hear Betty reigning below in the kitchen , shuffling plates and boiling water , and doubtless adding some original touches to the toast : slicing it laterally perhaps , or dusting it with cinnamon . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , success is associated only with jumping hurdles , like tests and examinations , and not also with seeing a generality , or capturing it in words and symbols , or explaining it to someone else . |