Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people . |
| 2 | With both men having defences more vulnerable than Leeds , there should be no complaints even from those paying $800 for ringside seats about not getting value for money . |
| 3 | If only they had n't become so friendly , he was sure he would have enjoyed having a relationship with her ; but he had a rule about not mixing sex with friendship . |
| 4 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 5 | Although the offence of having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 has the advantage of not requiring proof of lack of consent , it carries a maximum penalty of just two years ’ imprisonment . |
| 6 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 7 | This project will develop ways of automatically adding information about word meaning to computer readable texts . |
| 8 | Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side — but random access is less accurate . |
| 9 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 10 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 11 | It was shown above ( cf. ( 45 ) ) that watch can only evoke a process of voluntarily laying hold of sense data by means of visual perception . |
| 12 | All the weeks of reluctantly keeping Yanto at bay , plus having her hand on a male sexual organ for the first time in her twenty five years of life , was too much for Molly . |
| 13 | He was charged with dishonestly obtaining money by deception , contrary to s.15(1) of the 1968 Theft Act . |
| 14 | ‘ The composition of the team , strengths and weaknesses of its members , and styles of leadership are all considered with the aim of moving from purely controlling activity to coaching and leading . ’ |
| 15 | Is there any merit in actually archiving day by day ? |
| 16 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |
| 17 | Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money . |
| 18 | The complexity of psychological factors involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment means that publicity campaigns and health education programmes must go beyond simply imparting information about safety , realising that people often know what they should and could do , and yet do not act on their knowledge . |
| 19 | People 's view of building is often somewhat different , and many feel savings can be made by not expending money on architect 's fees . |
| 20 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 21 | The energy could then be used either to generate electricity ( eg in a photoelectrochemical cell equipped with a light-sensitive semiconducting electrode ) or chemicals ( eg by photochemically splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen ) . |
| 22 | A widespread myth among personal , personnel managers is that they can change terms and conditions by simply giving notice of intent . |
| 23 | The 1944 Education Act had avoided the issue of curriculum control by ambiguously dividing control of school curriculum between local authorities and governing bodies and ( reflecting the strength of the church lobby ) listing only religious education as a curriculum issue worthy of legislation . |
| 24 | The payment system has been oriented primarily to improving overall organization performance , by tightly coupling length of service to frequent promotion up a ladder of many small gradations . |
| 25 | Also in 1818 Coffey , by then acting inspector-general of excise , published his Observations on Chichester 's pamphlet , in which he restated the official policy but did not produce any very convincing arguments or evidence in its justification . |
| 26 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |