Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 2 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 4 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 5 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 6 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |
| 7 | During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 9 | If this transpires to be the case for binding of the intact 140k protein during VZV infection , numerous possible functional implications of such a broad-ranging conformational effect can be envisaged , including modification of the interactions of transcription factors with DNA or with other proteins , or clearing the promoter of non-specific DNA binding proteins . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 11 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 12 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 13 | My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby . |
| 14 | There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert . |
| 15 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 16 | ‘ We will also keep a better check on rider 's allowances so we do n't have a situation like the one where Adrian Maguire lost several wins through riding with the wrong allowance , ’ said Michael Caulfield of the Jockeys Association , who are involved in the new system . |
| 17 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 18 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 19 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 20 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 21 | The conflicting demands of efficient service provision , democratic involvement , and local historical or community traditions led to different proposals for dealing with the perceived shortcomings of the existing local government system . |
| 22 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 23 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 24 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 25 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 26 | When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible . |
| 27 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 28 | But Welsh Local Government Minister Gwilym Jones told the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen yesterday : ‘ While we shall be listening very carefully , we see no case at present for departing from the main thrust of our proposals . |
| 29 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 30 | 400 people gathered at Groundwell Farm in Swindon after hearing about the illegal rave on a telephone hotline . |