Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem to appear as if by magic wherever industrial capitalist society grows . |
| 2 | You may want to invite former colleagues to work for or with you in your new sphere . |
| 3 | He must be communicative since he has to work with or through other people . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister lacks executive powers and has therefore to work with and through ministers who have executive powers vested in them collectively . |
| 5 | Workers in some specialist agencies may be more directly concerned with families as such , while the community worker is likely to work with and in the interests of whole families in the day-today situation . |
| 6 | Coach Mike McClennan admitted : ‘ With all the tough games to come before and around Christmas , it 's a real setback . |
| 7 | Hodder ( 1985 ) provides an extremely practical guide to all you need to know before and after becoming a step-family ! |
| 8 | Some schools , e.g. in East London and Liverpool , adjusted their hours to take account of the needs of poorer children both for earnings and education , beginning or ending the school day later or earlier than was the custom , enabling schoolchildren to work before or after school . |
| 9 | He will agree that it will be only wise of me not to attempt to comment on or in any way to qualify the words that the Prime Minister used this afternoon — and I have no intention of doing so . |
| 10 | This means that to stand still in terms of health service provision , funding has to increase over and above that for other services . |
| 11 | I think certainly we had to have a figurehead to relate to and in my opinion , Tom was the best one to have there . |
| 12 | Evidence of the cost effectiveness of inspections is hard to come by and on this basis alone it is an area of challenge for partnerships . |
| 13 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 14 | She knew what John 's apprehension was likely to lead to and in her anguish prayed to God for strength to face her ordeal . |
| 15 | The need to feed over and above the maintenance requirement is linked to the fish 's need to grow and reproduce . |
| 16 | ‘ It must be really hard for somebody to listen to because in a way it 's untogether , but I like chaos , it has its place . |
| 17 | Jim Bob , laughing , says that some of the crew are here , as much for him to talk to as for their tour responsibilities : ‘ Because if we were n't having a good time with our friends we could n't do this . ’ |
| 18 | He was carrying Stair 's silver-topped cane , given to him to look after because in his drunken state Stair could no longer remember to keep it with him . |
| 19 | There is nothing manufactured by man that has not been designed , because whether it 's a Rolls-Royce engine or a piece of printed paper , there 's always a decision to be made not only about what it 's going to look like but about how it is going to be made and how it is going to operate . |
| 20 | The federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic on Jan. 23 declared in a nationwide broadcast that " Yugoslavia continues to function with or without the LCY " . |
| 21 | Mind you I would love one to play with because of its versatility . |
| 22 | Travellers on the road between Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen , the A683 , pass through attractive countryside of contrasting landscapes , all fair to look upon and with few habitations to counter the loneliness of the surroundings . |
| 23 | it difficult to walk to and from that |
| 24 | Then he had to walk to and from the school . |
| 25 | With The Smiths it was a question not of desire but of longing — the yearning to belong to or with someone , to belong somewhere . |
| 26 | Slate is marvellous to look at but at a marvellous price , and there is an enormous choice in ceramic tiles which can be mixed in among the terracottas for an ethnic Mexican or Provencale , Italian , Spanish or Portuguese look . |
| 27 | Valiant and Vigilant were not beautiful ships to look at and at full speed ( about 14 knots ) looked particularly incongruous , as they seemed to be suspended between their own wash and bow-wave . |
| 28 | They believed practicalities like how parents are supposed to know what is happening in the nursery should be clarified , and that there were records available for parents to look at and in some cases contribute to , in connection with their own child and with the nursery in general . |
| 29 | There were no enemy ground forces to contend with except in the immediate target areas and the civilian population was minimal , restricted to the odd encampment of nomadic Arab tribesmen . |
| 30 | These junior institutions are the preparatory schools of the prisons , not because they train criminals , but because they train youngsters to cope with a regime which denies tenderness , warmth and the right to weep with and for your own pain . |