Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 2 | A sense of inner worth , and the talent for reflecting it in outer forms and appearances . |
| 3 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 4 | " There 's a regulation about using it for private matters . " |
| 5 | He says that the council is obliged by the government to take full responsibility for young offenders — and that includes paying for keeping them in secure units . |
| 6 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 7 | There is a further cause-effect or condition-effect relation to be noted , but it will be best to do so after noting one between causal circumstance and effect , implied already . |
| 8 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 9 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |
| 10 | He says that he shot it down , after chasing it at low level . |
| 11 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 12 | Paul Keywood , 13 , and his 11-year-old brother Nathan saved the little boy 's life after discovering him in freezing conditions wrapped in only a towel . |
| 13 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 14 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 15 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 16 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 17 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 18 | There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text . |
| 19 | It was kept clean by the simple method of scrubbing it with fine sand — a commodity in no short supply during Richard 's desert campaigns ! |
| 20 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 21 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 22 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 23 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 24 | NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures . |
| 25 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 26 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 27 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 28 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 29 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
| 30 | Lake Windermere 's ranger 's annual report has accused boat owners of polluting it with raw sewage and spent fuel , leading to noxious smells in warm weather . |