Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping residents or reminding them to go to and from the toilets is a daily part of your duties . |
| 2 | The agreement , by which Merck will pay the Institute $1 million , is intended to provide an incentive for the conservation of Costa Rica 's remaining forest lands , by allowing them to serve as a sustainable productive resource of materials other than timber . |
| 3 | This is performed by resuspending 50 g of diatoms ( Sigma D 5-384 ) in 500 ml of water , and allowing them to settle in a 500 ml measuring cylinder for 3 hours . |
| 4 | Mr Waddington was apparently considering allowing them to take into account the need to protect the public from even quite minor offences . |
| 5 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 6 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn ‘ Labour will bring lasting prosperity to Darlington and put people 's talents to use rather than allowing them to go to waste . ’ |
| 7 | Fly transmission of stable transformants : Tsetse flies ( Glossina morsitans morsitans ) were infected by allowing them to feed on blood mixed with procyclic trypanosomes through artificial membranes ( 20 ) . |
| 8 | He was not picked up by A.S.R. largely due to the delay in allowing them to put to sea . |
| 9 | By encouraging them to keep up their medication and allowing them to talk through their problems sufferers learn to cope with their illness . |
| 10 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 11 | Highways are being split down the middle , with special ‘ car pool lanes ’ for vehicles carrying more than two passengers , allowing them to cruise past the traffic jams . |
| 12 | The interesting point about the satellites is that their behaviour includes many submissive components that trick the resident males into allowing them to remain near their sites . |
| 13 | Although many areas still recommend that 65 is the upper age limit for basic training for advice work , and 70 is the recommended retirement age , new NACAB membership requirements now allow bureaux the freedom to take a more personal approach to advice workers nearing retirement , allowing them to continue beyond 70 if the management committee and bureau manager agree . |
| 14 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 15 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 16 | Is not the most practical step that he could take to help renewables to allow those people working on tide , wind , coppicing and other renewables in the Atomic Energy Authority a separate organisation free from the foolish need to produce short-term profits , allowing them to invest in the advantages of renewables , which are essentially long-term ? |
| 17 | The formula ‘ protects ’ the incomes of second families by not allowing them to fall below income support levels plus £8 and 10 per cent of the difference . |
| 18 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 19 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 20 | More important , trade would tie their economies into the global market , allowing them to specialise in the things they do best , and helping governments to consolidate their economic reforms . |
| 21 | Giving the ladies three courtesy shots and allowing them to play off the front tees . |
| 22 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 23 | Some Western conservationists have welcomed Martin 's departure but local conservationist groups generally supported his policy of giving local communities an interest in preserving wildlife by allowing them to benefit from wildlife management schemes . |
| 24 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 25 | The average recreational sailor owns around three sails , allowing them to sail in a wind band of between force one and five . |
| 26 | The polytechnics support vouchers because they believe that the system will give them parity of resources with the universities by allowing them to compete for students on equal terms . |
| 27 | Then the rod was twisted by the spinner , who pulled strands out from the fleece , allowing them to twist into thread by the action of the revolving spindle . |
| 28 | However , he also pointed out that the government 's policy of combining " actions of immediate relief with medium-term rehabilitation " was starting to show results , the distribution of seeds and tools to displaced people allowing them to produce at least some of their own food . |
| 29 | To surmount this problem , the elephants started tearing down trees , which they laid on the fence until it collapsed , allowing them to step over it . |
| 30 | The U-turn came as UN chiefs refused to accept 28,000 refugees in a desperate bid to pressurise the Serbs into allowing them to stay in Bosnia . |