Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An older hand , helping with the fixing , commented that the release clips for folding and unfolding the Workmate were set further back than on his old-style version , making them a little more difficult to operate , and that the metal frame had more angular , sharper corners — not quite as user-friendly , he reckoned ! |
| 2 | Daly writes of unveiling or unwinding the ‘ shrouds ’ of patriarchy . |
| 3 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 4 | Within these general categories , precise predictions and purposes can be formulated and then checked or fulfilled , and exercises in skipping and scanning , finding facts or opinions , dividing and heading , paragraphing , and subtitling can all be entered into more purposefully . |
| 5 | Sizewell B project manager Jim McFarlane told a meeting of the local community liaison committee : ‘ We believe the case for more nuclear power is irresistible but we have to see what the Government says before deciding whether to submit the C station application . |
| 6 | The 31-year-old Chemics ' stand off , who must count as one of the unluckiest players in the game because of persistent injury problems , added : ‘ I shall wait to hear what the specialist says before deciding whether to play on or not . ’ |
| 7 | The point about these last two demonstrations is that they emphasise that spinning depends on stalling and keeping the aircraft stalled . |
| 8 | The margin between doses which destroy only malignant cells and those which damage healthy cells is very small , and the cure of a cancer depends on removing or killing all the malignant cells which elude the body 's own control . |
| 9 | For these features have only to be noticed for it to be seen that very considerable scope exists for denying or undermining the exercise of the right . |
| 10 | With luck , he succeeds in attracting and forming a bond with a second female . |
| 11 | Poor discipline shows in whispering and giggling , and in fussy ‘ busyness ’ with music or musical instruments . |
| 12 | Put together , they could be said to constitute more than the ‘ perhaps one or two opportunities ’ the discussion set out to find , but an outline strategy for reclaiming a grossly under-used source of much-needed brain-power in the boardroom : a strategy that now calls for sharpening and refining . |
| 13 | The Careers Service is the local agency which is best suited to carry out this task which is consonant with the role it already plays in collecting and describing vacancies . |
| 14 | Not only does a Christian believe ; he is a person who ‘ thinks in believing and believes in thinking ’ , as Augustine expressed it . |
| 15 | Flanders ( 1970 ) found that , on average , two-thirds of classroom time is taken up with the teacher talking , and two-thirds of this talk consists of lecturing or explaining . |
| 16 | This consists of measuring or estimating financial factors such as cost or profit associated with the products being considered and drawing a histogram of money against product or element type . |
| 17 | This consists of measuring or estimating financial factors such as cost or profit associated with the products being considered and drawing a histogram of money against product or element type . |
| 18 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 19 | In 1989 Toyota , which then owned 41 per cent of Piper 's Japanese sales agency , acquired an FBO at Long Beach , California which specialises in buying and selling used business jets . |
| 20 | She specialises in linking and helping to solve violent crimes by comparing the perpetrators ' methods . |
| 21 | Prevention is better than chemical cures ; natural pest control relies on recognising and understanding not only your enemies but the gardeners friends in the animal kingdom . |
| 22 | ‘ Then it goes without coughing and spluttering . |
| 23 | It goes without saying that stating the problem is not the same thing as solving it in practice ! |
| 24 | The second point on which Tony Crosland gives a rare hostage to the future relates to streaming and setting within the comprehensive school . |
| 25 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |
| 26 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 27 | Revlon 's Moisture Lipstick , £6.95 , contains chronospheres which , it 's claimed , continuously release the colour , shine and moisturisers so it lasts without staining and feels smooth and comfortable . |
| 28 | As children mature they may be prepared to share one ball between two , or play with an adult in a small group taking turns at catching or rolling a ball . |
| 29 | We decided that we would like to spend much of our available time in the far north , beyond the Arctic Circle so , taking turns at driving and stopping only for fuel and occasional snacks , we thrashed on up the ‘ spine ’ of Norway through spectacular mountain scenery to Trondheim . |
| 30 | The POMC approach to the grouping of managerial activities , which was introduced in Chapter 15 , commences by considering the Planning activities of management , continues with Organizing and Motivating activities and ends with Controlling activities — the subject of this Section . |