Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was not in the business of inventing metaphors or illustrating stories with moral cameos . |
| 3 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |
| 4 | Each team specialises in a set of functions — eg , handling text or drawing graphs . |
| 5 | Biddy arrived on her Honda every evening there was a lesson whether it was snowing , raining stair-rods or shining frostily under a full moon . |
| 6 | Of course the delivery of health care is different from producing cars or selling food , but there are a large number of common problems that any manager shares . |
| 7 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 8 | I think he 'd be a bit of a hero for me — he managed to achieve such great things without using violence or hurting anybody . |
| 9 | Philosophers of science have latterly been busy explaining that science is about correlating phenomena or acquiring the power to manipulate them . |
| 10 | Small-boat owners were off at moorings indulging themselves , checking gear or tinkering with engines . |
| 11 | 24 , cases of wives becoming sureties or giving security for their husband 's debts . |
| 12 | Having said that , not saying George Best was one of the greatest players in the world , would be similar to denying Maradona or Cruyff that status . |
| 13 | Customs has ruled that , following a European Court of Justice judgement , the basic activities of a holding company , such as acquiring subsidiaries or defending against takeovers , are not business activities for VAT purposes . |
| 14 | The 1992 National Cup competition at the Crystal Palace exhibition was once again attended by the top men 's , ladies ' and youth teams who had either fought their way through eliminating rounds or prequalified by high National League placings last season . |
| 15 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 16 | While other network companies mooted various ideas with the ITA for absorbing LWT or making London a single franchise — ideas that were anathema — Murdoch won reluctant ITA approval to buy the General Electric Company 's 7.5 per cent of the voting shares ( and a larger block of non-voting shares , which did not require approval ) . |
| 17 | There was no lack of enterprise in founding monasteries or endowing them ; it seems likely that if spinsters had been a serious problem to the fathers of the age , more convents of nuns would have appeared . |
| 18 | Recent ethnography of writing has demonstrated that the same is true for many contemporary societies now labelled ‘ literate ’ ; much of the practice turns out to be , as in Iran ( see below , Section 2 ) , writing names on crates of produce , keeping records of business transactions , writing cheques etc. , or , as in English factories , reading warning or instruction labels , one-word sign symbols and signing names or filling in forms ( see Section 3 ) . |
| 19 | Only 20 per cent is used in physical activity such as climbing stairs or carrying shopping . |
| 20 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 21 | ‘ Taken at face value individual companies would have us believe that their particular stance has been determined by purely altruistic considerations , such as meeting customer demand , protecting staff or defending religious principles . |
| 22 | Yet not a word was said condemning France or defending New Zealand against France 's blackmail at the EEC . |
| 23 | We showed how although such questions allowed a wide range of possible approaches to INSET , even within the context of a central provision , and despite the market research which preceded the drawing up of each year 's programme , the Authority tended towards a particular combination of imprecise targeting , top-down views of teachers ' needs , and external agents adopting training or instructing roles . |
| 24 | There are concerns that , once released , GEMs might exhibit some previously unknown pathogenicity , might take over from some naturally occurring bacteria or pass on some perhaps unwanted trait to indigenous bacteria . |
| 25 | The chances are that he will see his inconsistency and revise his moral views , either exonerating Smith or condemning himself . |
| 26 | Temporary mains-voltage lights are mainly festoon lights — strings of coloured light bulbs in robust holders — which you arrange around patios , eating areas or barbecues when you need them . |
| 27 | We have become more civilised and more sensitive to the needs of individuals , and more reluctant to pander to prurience : hence our law against naming rape or blackmail victims , the limits on reporting evidence in divorce cases , and the rules against revealing old criminal convictions . |
| 28 | But there were children with the women here and there , subdued children eating chips or drawing on pieces of paper on the floor . |
| 29 | Develop an index of notes that really helps you locate notes quickly when preparing for tutorials , writing essays or revising for exams . |
| 30 | Thus , even routine behaviours which occur many times — such as tying shoelaces , brushing teeth or washing a cup — will never be performed in exactly the same way on two occasions . |