Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The back-up handle is again heaved back and forth for undercarriage and , after quickly selecting press cold on the air-conditioning panel to combat the rising personal temperature , a curving 130- knot approach is flown with quite high power on the remaining engine .
2 She was sacked after allegedly giving police information on union membership details .
3 Petsos received a 10-month suspended sentence for corruptly facilitating planning permission for a press complex which Koskotas had built near Athens .
4 It has succeeded in greatly reducing exchange-rate variability within Europe , and in promoting regional convergence towards low rates of inflation .
5 IBM EMPLOYEE ARRAIGNED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING $49m WORTH OF MAINFRAME MEMORY BOARDS
6 It claims that developing the single isomer form of conventional drugs is a good way for such companies to minimise erosion of their market share by generic drug manufacturers by effectively extending patent protection for the product .
7 Here the individualistic , childhood-makes-man approach is relatively trivial and , paradoxically , can do little more than to complement and compound the worst aspects of the holistic fallacy by narrowly explaining adult character as a function of cultural conditioning and contemporary family circumstances .
8 Needles can be produced by simply pulling Leitz capillary on an electrode puller but such hollow needles can cause damage to tissue if they break because of the ensuing capillary action , Solid needles are preferable both for this reason and also because they have greater mechanical strength .
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