Example sentences of "[v-ing] or [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial assistance out of public funds should be available for every individual ( not corporations ) who , without it , would suffer an undue financial burden in properly pursuing or defending his or her legal rights ; |
| 2 | Fr Leonardo Boff , a renowned Brazilian liberation theologist condemned by the Vatican to a year 's silence in 1985 [ see p. 33823 ] , was banned by the Vatican with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 , from preaching or pursuing his theological teaching at the university in Petrópolis , 50 km north-east of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 3 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 4 | What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence . |
| 5 | Ianthe always hurried past the vet 's house , fearful of seeing or hearing something dreadful . |
| 6 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 7 | The thrill of seeing or touching something really old on a museum visit can be extremely important ( see Box 14 ) . |
| 8 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 9 | Give every possible comfort to the person including touching or holding their hand . |
| 10 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 11 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 12 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 13 | ( 10 ) Throughout Stages 1 and 2 , DCSLs may be involved in advising schools , librarians , or library committees on practical matters , from suggesting trends in library layout ( for schools relocating or refurbishing their libraries in anticipation of , or as a result of , receiving a project grant ) to advising on precise requirements of order forms , the need to " weed " old stock to make space for the new acquisitions , and the desirability or updating or devising a new catalogue . |
| 14 | Without adequate insurance , repairing or replacing your belongings could be extremely expensive . |
| 15 | What is important is what a person is ‘ concerned and accountable ’ for , what he ‘ owns and imputes to … self ’ , what his ‘ conscience [ is ] accusing or excusing him ’ of . |
| 16 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 17 | It is simply a method of inhibiting or stopping your debtor from cashing in his assets and putting them out of your reach before you have had a chance to recover what is owed to you . |
| 18 | Also , it may prove possible to manipulate NO neurotransmission pharmacologically , either inhibiting or enhancing it , and this could have important therapeutic implications in the management of disordered anorectal function . |
| 19 | Motions from outside of the body often affect this ‘ vital motion ’ , either helping or hindering it , and our awareness of these changes constitutes pleasure and pain . |
| 20 | In a recent article in the California Management Review , Mr Reich points out that , as a bailiwick of the Ministry of Health and Welfare , the industry was out of bounds to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) and so never had bureaucrats helping or prodding it to export . |
| 21 | It can be a product or service you 've bought in , not necessarily a product or service that you are actually producing or generating yourselves . |
| 22 | What major good were we producing or did we start producing around nineteen seventy seven ? |
| 23 | When cooking , many people check the contents of for example bottles and packages by smelling or tasting them . |
| 24 | Windy come here Windy am I smelling or do you normally call me that ? |
| 25 | Most people were eating or drinking something : ice-cream , chips , hot-dogs , candy-floss , cans of Coke . |
| 26 | After visiting the bathroom , please measure yourself before eating or drinking anything . |
| 27 | Inevitably , Madeleine 's name had cropped up and Harry had felt a pang of nostalgia remembering the little girl with her white dresses and long , golden plaits , laughing or stamping her foot if her brother did n't give her her own way . |
| 28 | The plaintiffs sought an injunction against the members of the national executive of the union to restrain them from inducing or procuring their members not to use PA copy . |
| 29 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 30 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |