Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin to remedy this emotional block , start to notice when you are looking for praise or recognition , and in doing so , start talking about or bringing to someone else 's notice something you have not done so well . |
| 2 | Be determined not to think about or dwell upon them . |
| 3 | The Heath Government appointed a Select Committee on the Corporation Tax and the subsequent Labour Government appointed one on a wealth tax , but both refused a permanent subcommittee on taxation so that there is still no mechanism by which the House of Commons can know about or participate in investigations of taxation problems or possible developments in policy . |
| 4 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 5 | For Satarov there is a need to pass on the ‘ knowledge about or based on the data ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 6 | They respond to affection , being made to feel that they matter and to the opportunity to talk about or work through their past , especially in ways that help to raise their self-esteem . |
| 7 | He complained that recruitment was being carried out under the banner of a management consultancy service without being accounted for or charged for separately . |
| 8 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 9 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 10 | Despite political struggle , scientific advances and social battles , some things can not be changed , marched for or campaigned against . |
| 11 | The open day at the centre at St Catherine 's Hospital , Birkenhead , between 10am and 4pm , is aimed at people who have had a heart attack , are waiting for or recovering from surgery , or have a family history of heart disease . |
| 12 | Commercial enquiries are few in number , and are either charged for or dealt with in a quid pro quo manner . |
| 13 | Intact physical structures which enable one to see , hear , taste , smell and touch , and those which permit speech and body language are basic to independence , although some degree of impairment can often be compensated for or coped with . |
| 14 | Subsection ( 2 ) of that section says that ‘ equity security ’ means ‘ a relevant share ’ in the company ( other than one taken by a subscriber to the memorandum or a bonus share ) or the right to subscribe for or convert into ‘ relevant shares ’ in the company . |
| 15 | In fact , the verse says in the Greek that God is able to do all that believers can ask for or think of asking . |
| 16 | He wrote that God is able to do above all that believers can ask for or think of asking . |
| 17 | God is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking ; add a building block . |
| 18 | God is able to do more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking ; add another building block . |
| 19 | God is able to do infinitely more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking . |
| 20 | We have a God who longs to answer prayer ; a God who listens to our words and answers them ; a God who knows our thoughts and answers the prayers that we can not express in words ; a God whose ability to answer prayer is not limited by the finite , but who can do infinitely more abundantly above all that we can ask for or think of asking . |
| 21 | If you are going to eat in the kitchen make sure overall lights arc on a dimmer switch and that there is enough light over the table — use a rise-and-fall light fixture for example — which can , of course , be substituted for or combined with candlelight at night . |
| 22 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 23 | Leisure was something people never planned for or thought about . |
| 24 | This is known as the talk through or walk through method of task analysis . |
| 25 | Look after or check in other people 's baggage |
| 26 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 27 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 28 | Your personality , your way of doing things , your way of helping someone to dress , how you listen to them — all these can make it a Home where the residents feel secure , looked after and treated with dignity , as explained below : |
| 29 | Despite his many sales of things from Douglas Cooper 's collection , a substantial amount of art remained , much of it in Switzerland , where it was looked after and catalogued by Billy 's curator , Dorothy Kozinski . |
| 30 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |