Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An intensive conditioner will work much better if you cover hair with a polythene bag after applying to seal in body heat . |
| 2 | The man , who was in his 20s , fled after trying to pay for £70 worth of food at the store in Fiveways , Birmingham , with a stolen Barclaycard . |
| 3 | The 39-year-old Scot , despite having to contend with hay fever and a heavy cold , kept Ian Woosnam , Paul Broadhurst and Johan Rystrom at bay to move up to sixth place in the Ryder Cup points list . |
| 4 | The ordeal , which lasted all of twenty minutes , was repeated twice a day ; a high price , thought Joshua , for having to listen to Bill Cash warn of the dangers of Europe . |
| 5 | The court heard that Davies was jailed for nine months in 1985 for threatening to damage by fire Department of Heath and Social Security offices . |
| 6 | Will the Minister explain why , if the Environmental Protection Act 1990 is so wonderful , the Government are being dragged to the European Court for failing to comply with Community legislation on water standards and air pollution control ? |
| 7 | The breakfast choice was just as Rune had described the previous evening , she discovered , running jaundiced eyes over the available spread before deciding to settle for orange juice , yoghurt and black coffee . |
| 8 | My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on . |
| 9 | The existence of externalities gives government a role in trying to correct for market failure . |
| 10 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 11 | The section also explains how the basic pension is ‘ topped up ’ by the graduated and additional pension , and can be increased by continuing to work after state retirement age . |
| 12 | By choosing to take at face value all the evidence pointing to the futility of the war , and ignoring all those who believed , with patent sincerity , that they were fighting for something worthwhile against something evil , he has taken cynicism to the point of naivety . |