Example sentences of "[adv prt] or [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the speed limit acts is presumably to minimise the danger to those travelling on or using the roads . |
| 2 | The six , among 55 individuals banned by a High Court judge from trespassing on or causing a nuisance at the site , joined 500 others in a peaceful invasion of the construction site ; 27 were arrested . |
| 3 | This is built into a special housing to fit the filter box , often on or replacing the lid . |
| 4 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
| 5 | How do you spend the rest of your time when you 're not on or planning an expedition ? |
| 6 | Others are a matter of reassigning tasks , adjusting the timetable of a plan , scaling a project down or postponing the achievement of one or other of the targets which had originally been identified . |
| 7 | You need to interpret your list of daily weights in order to see if , over a month or so , it is going up , down or staying the same . |
| 8 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |
| 9 | ( b ) Notwithstanding paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 5 ) ( a ) of this rule , a registered foreign lawyer will not be in breach of these rules by virtue of setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling a business outside England and Wales , provided : |
| 10 | ( ii ) the registered foreign lawyer 's solicitor partners play no role in setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling the business ; and |
| 11 | Mr Jack Hayward , the wealthy benefactor , claimed that the article meant that he was guilty of participating in or condoning a murder plot . |
| 12 | This left the restriction against engaging in or undertaking the trade or business of an employment agency within the kilometre circle , for six months . |
| 13 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 14 | Often the reasons for being passed over or failing a job interview will not be properly explained . |
| 15 | But Gabriel had spent a year as a stonemason 's apprentice , clinging to the rafters and cornices of holy buildings , finishing off or preparing the stone . |
| 16 | Tough , consistent , and versatile , Golden Chip is effective on all types of ground , held up or blazing a trail . |
| 17 | Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent . |
| 18 | " supply " is defined in s46 to include : ( a ) selling , hiring out or lending the goods ; ( b ) entering into a hire-purchase agreement to furnish the goods ; ( c ) the performance of any contract for work and materials to furnish the goods ; ( d ) providing the goods in exchange for any consideration ( including trading stamps ) other than money ; ( e ) providing the goods in or in connection with the performance of any statutory function ; or ( f ) giving the goods as a prize or otherwise making a gift of the goods . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the hospitals in respect of which he has received an expression of interest in opting out or establishing a national health service trust . |
| 20 | Such rights may also place restrictions on the future running and conduct of the target 's business and consideration may have to be given either to modifying these or buying out or repaying the relevant rights or loans . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's weird how people think that Craig and I are together — they assume we must be going out or having an affair , ’ says Jo . |
| 22 | These results indicated significantly lower recall scores for the scrambled version , whether a reader was working from the version with no words missed out or doing a cloze test . |
| 23 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 24 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |