Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental Pollution reported in 1976 that ‘ there are very strong grounds for doubting whether dumping on this scale will be acceptable ’ . |
| 2 | Find out what it is used for ( eg are the apples for eating or cooking with ? ) . |
| 3 | If you want cold hard-boiled eggs for eating or playing with , use either natural dyes or edible food colourings . |
| 4 | Most elderly people like to make a cup of tea for a visitor , and this should always be accepted with pleasure ; for eating and drinking with somebody else is another of life 's important shared experiences , of which they are deprived if they live alone . |
| 5 | And The Hound was rushing about sniffing and getting under everyone 's feet . |
| 6 | In a new book , he claims the Victorians would be horrified by modern behaviour such as eating and smoking on the streets . |
| 7 | Former taxi driver Paul Burrows , of Chandos Street , Darlington , discovered his talent for singing while convalescing from the life saving surgery last April . |
| 8 | The intention of the current work is to explore the perceptions of the voluntary sector held by local authority staff and to consider this in the light of their policies and practices for contacting and working with ( or for ) the voluntary groups in their areas . |
| 9 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 10 | It 's about accepting and dealing with responsibility and not being overwhelmed by it . |
| 11 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 12 | Everyone coughed most of the time , they could n't tell the difference between coughing and breathing after a while , but his was a real lung curdler when it got going . |
| 13 | Pallister and Bruce getting the better marks ( presumably for handling and tackling from behind respectively ) . |
| 14 | Until the passing of the Forster Education Act in 1870 , most training in music was obtained primarily , if not solely , through singing or playing in churches , chapels and cathedrals . |
| 15 | Key central and local government figures from the time , including The Rt Hon J Dickson Mabon , the Minister with responsibility for planning and housing during the mid '60s , recalled the urgent pressures for re-housing and re-planning after the war . |
| 16 | Used extensively for cooking and drinking in China , it is made from glutinous rice , yeast and spring water . |
| 17 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 18 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 19 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 20 | You 'll practise all the skills needed for anchoring and mooring under engine in a small cruiser . |
| 21 | In this case it 's mine , and meant for launching or switching between applications . |
| 22 | because it is not worth litigating or suing for claims below a certain sum ; |
| 23 | The hierarchy of facilities provided for walking and cycling in Buxtehude is thus extensive as Figure 6.20 shows , ranging from pedestrianised areas , pedestrian priority routes , shared tracks for walking and cycling , cycle lanes along main routes , cycle priority streets and cycle lanes in roads . |
| 24 | There is plenty of scope for walking or climbing in the Outer Isles and on the mainland , and the exercise is often welcome after being in the cramped quarters of a small boat . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , Hoving became rapidly intoxicated with his own power and was incapable of maintaining the balance between forcefulness and arrogance , between populism and vulgarity ; between protecting and caring for the art under the Met 's roof and blithely selling it heedless of scholars or donors . |
| 26 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 27 | In almost all cases this venom is used as a means of defence , and most people are stung after handling or stepping on a fish . |
| 28 | After tossing and turning for another while , Amiss fell into a deep sleep from which he was woken less than an hour and a half later by his alarm clock . |
| 29 | Margaret Butterworth developed a lifelong concern for social care after living and working with mentally ill young people after the war . |
| 30 | The local bands have not been altogether ousted ; some were taking part in the contests after playing and walking in a procession in the morning and playing at the sports in the afternoon . |