Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the changes contained in the Children Act 1989 came into effect the LEA , when contemplating prosecution , had to consider the appropriateness or otherwise of instituting care proceedings under section 1 ( 2 ) ( e ) of the Children and Young Persons Act ( CYPA ) in the juvenile court ( on the ground that a child was ‘ not receiving full-time education suitable to his age , ability and aptitude ’ ) , instead of or as well as prosecuting ( see Education Act 1944 section 40(2) ) . |
| 2 | On the other side of the English Channel , the concentration of eleven Valence manors in Kent ( at Brabourne , Egerton , East Sutton , Sutton Valence and Wickham , for example ) may have facilitated his constant journeying to and fro by providing staging posts on the road to and from the coast . |
| 3 | The Socialists need to redefine themselves as a definitively ex-Marxist party that is nevertheless keener on social fairness ( and better at keeping Greece green and clean ) than its conservative rival . |
| 4 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |
| 5 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 6 | This application is of benefit for queries to a computer that take place over a telephone and also for providing reading aids for the blind . |
| 7 | Erm I 've got a Readers Digest , it 's a large hardback book er Complete Guide to Sewing , it 's a A to Z , it 's got all the sewing essentials and also for making household items and toys and clothes and everything , er for a fiver . |
| 8 | The gundogs were primarily for picking up at pheasant shoots and for work on my own shoot , but one of them , a Springer spaniel , was also used for hunting out rough-lying rabbits and also for retrieving shot rabbits from difficult situations . |
| 9 | The swing tickets are for pricing your garments and also for giving washing instructions and fibre content . |
| 10 | The CLPD secured remarkable success by the tactics of lobbying influential trade unionists and local party members and also by drafting model resolutions carefully designed to promote its aims , which could then be proposed by supporters at a wide variety of meetings . |
| 11 | It was out of the question ; she must end this bizarre interview here and now by telling Madame Gebrec , gently but firmly , that the person to whom she should confide her doubts was Officer Hassan . |
| 12 | What is important is the recognition that curricular decision-making is a process of assigning value and particularly of resolving value conflicts — a practical rather than theoretical activity . |
| 13 | Apart from its original holiday retailing company , it has set up a chain of travel agencies , developed a flight training centre in connection with its Orion airline subsidiary , moved into holiday hotel development and even into selling holiday properties abroad . |
| 14 | Five minutes later , with her patient safely tucked up , Miss Fogerty spoke to Doctor Lovell and then to Lulling Police Station . |
| 15 | Clinton , then a student in the United Kingdom , reneged on this arrangement , it was alleged , by returning to the UK and then by attending Yale University , thereby failing to enter either the ROTP or the University of Arkansas . |
| 16 | The revival in the fortunes of the Mortimer family is an outstanding example of the working of Edward III 's patronage , first in setting aside the forfeiture of 1330 and then in permitting Edmund Mortimer to marry his granddaughter . |
| 17 | Professor Plop and the Timemachine , he made a timemachine , went to Egypt and instead of having Tuten Khamoun in headdress he had Tuten Khamoun in headphones . |
| 18 | The whole battery site is now earmarked to become a country park or war museum but as yet still remains untouched used now and again for playing war games and a place to stable locally owned horses . |
| 19 | One person pointed out that in a recent interview Nigel Hamilton , the man in charge of the Belfast Special Action Team and therefore of Making Belfast Work , stated that the money for Making Belfast Work was additional to government planned spending in North and West Belfast . |
| 20 | We will be tracing its pervasive effects below , firstly in relation to the largely untrammelled sentencing powers that have traditionally been enjoyed by the courts in England , and secondly in inhibiting policy initiatives that have sought to substitute an element of strategic planning for the policy vacuum that continues to characterize the English sentencing system . |
| 21 | It can be used not merely for recruitment purposes but also for defining training needs , establishing pay scales , safety arrangements , improving work methods and so on . |
| 22 | And , as we know , many solicitors engage not only in conveyancing but also in providing estate agency services . |
| 23 | The system of inheritance in rural communities is important , not only in shaping personal relationships within the household and among kinfolk , but also in reproducing property relationships over time . |
| 24 | This is assisted not only by meeting domestic customers ' overseas needs but also by establishing banking relationships with indigenous customers in various financial centres . |
| 25 | The licensed teacher scheme could be a major breakthrough but apart from teaching community languages in the secondary phase there is no provision again in this scheme to teach specialists with a view to reach these languages in the primary sector . |
| 26 | But apart from securing revenue growth , the moves also help to lock clients more closely into the group . |
| 27 | But instead of reading aeroplane comics and moping around you should be making sure your pride and joy is in a fit state to survive the winter — and ready for any of those all too infrequent sharp-edged days that appear out of nowhere and vanish just as quickly . |
| 28 | Cos what we 're going to do now , is real what , really what this is , this is like a quadratic equation , it is B square , squared plus sixty B squared , minus two , two , five , , so that 's a quadratic equation , but instead of saying X square , I 'm saying B square , square , plus sixteen B square . |