Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Appointments to the Court of Appeal , to the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords , and to the offices of Lord Chief Justice and President of the Family Division are made by the Prime Minister after consultation with the Lord Chancellor , who himself consults with senior members of the judiciary before making his choice or consulting with the Prime Minister . |
| 32 | The attempt here is to highlight the inadequacy of the present legal approach where it is assumed that selling on credit , or leasing for the useful life of the equipment is not lending , and that reservation of title on sale does not constitute the creation of a security interest but is merely an agreement as to the time at which the property should pass to the buyer . |
| 33 | For all these reasons , it is probably not as beneficial or stabilizing to the local economy as an increase in other retailing or service jobs , or in office employment , would be . |
| 34 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 35 | It was like putting on a costume for a play , or running in the three-legged race . |
| 36 | He saw the occasional pheasant and partridge winging rapidly away beneath him , or skulking in the brown grass and bracken . |
| 37 | I then isolated four variables that would be crucial in deciding whether or not a choice was being made : ( a ) the individuals in question ( the potential recruits ) with their existing predispositions ( interests , values , hopes , fears , etc. ) ; ( b ) and ( c ) the alternatives ( life in the Unification Church or continuing in the wider society ) ; and ( d ) the social context within which the decision was reached ( the Unification workshop ) . |
| 38 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 39 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 40 | But being in a wheelchair does n't stop them having fun — or falling for the leading man . |
| 41 | Frequent intoxication damages the mouth , oesophagus , stomach and especially the liver , where overloading of the metabolising process can cause hepatitis and cirrhosis . |
| 42 | Any homework Ruth saw to at Emma 's flat , or sitting on the dark-blue bed . |
| 43 | Talk for hours , strolling along the gravel walks in the sleepy heat of the afternoon , or sitting round the great fireplace at night . |
| 44 | The existence of other colleagues is an obvious source of satisfaction and help : he needs their advice ; he may be glad to have their personal help with the students , perhaps supervising or guiding a group , or talking to the entire class ; and he needs their selections and productions . |
| 45 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 46 | So I think inevitably that steps taken to try to reduce manpower as much as one can , unfortunately , and as Paul says I think the problem is trying to or adapting to the new situation . |
| 47 | Sometimes , sitting eating a sandwich on a park bench or jolting on the top deck of a bus through South London , I would hear his voice echo through my inscape . |
| 48 | On the chunky machine , since you are working with far fewer needles , casting off or transferring to the main bed from the ribber is not too much of a chore anyway . |
| 49 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |
| 50 | The annual rate of loss by shipwreck or burning during the same period may have been about 4 percent . |
| 51 | To a unit of executive power , any analysis of how that power is maintained and used must be uncomfortable ; while the ‘ insider ’ had no means of retreating across some geographic boundary or vanishing like the traditional anthropologist , back into academia . |
| 52 | This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club . |
| 53 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 54 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 55 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 56 | It addresses both health and social services but is disappointing in treating both in traditionally separate fashion ( see Twigg 's section on mainstream services ) rather than grappling with the emerging picture of multi-disciplinary support teams and the strengths and dilemmas of interagency working . |
| 57 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 58 | He can say that according to the correct elaboration the snail darter is saved ( or abandoned ) by the law or that Mrs. McLoughlin is compensated ( or denied compensation ) . |
| 59 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 60 | Although , in some instances , it is possible to ratify some breaches of fiduciary duty , it would appear that according to the Privy Council ruling in Cook v. |