Example sentences of "[v-ing] together [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last three years , the Stattauto ( " car alternative " ) scheme has involved 1,800 German families , banding together in groups of up to 30 people each to buy a car , which is then rented out among the group at the rate of US$2 per hour — substantially cheaper than commercial rates . |
| 2 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 3 | The excitement of a group of horses galloping together with hounds at heel would be just as intense . |
| 4 | Finally , the system must provide for the coordination , integration and binding together of services so that they function as one |
| 5 | Nevertheless , a close relationship was sustained , each Sunday evening saw the three brothers and their wives and children gathering together at Rachel Cohen 's home in highly convivial mood , Leonard 's grandmother being especially delighted in her firstborn 's firstborn . |
| 6 | * Adding a little oil to the water prevents pasta from sticking together during cooking . |
| 7 | Many thousands of years of natural evolution and hybridization , helped in recent centuries by the bringing together of species from widely separate parts of the world , and in modern decades by the attentions of the human mind and hand , have produced a multitude of rose forms , shapes , colours , habits and abilities . |
| 8 | The bringing together of school-leavers and vacancies began with the adolescent being interviewed at school , after which a form was completed by the headteacher and a member of the SCC , just as the ‘ Friendly Visitors ’ had done prior to 1910 . |
| 9 | The bringing together of workers was therefore not only on a larger scale but also more continuous than at other oil industry sites , including the isolated platform construction yards at Kishorn , Nigg , and Ardeseir in Highland Region , where many workers travelled from home daily or at least went home at weekends . |
| 10 | Third , there are epistemological and ideological problems associated with the bringing together of issues which have hitherto been studied in one or other of the natural or social sciences . |
| 11 | The trust organised the first Children of Science Awards , bringing together in London yesterday 150 incapacitated children from Europe , the Soviet Union , the Middle East , and Australia who have been helped by science . |
| 12 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 13 | ‘ Reverend Fathers , ’ he said mildly , ‘ as I hear , you intend in any case returning together to Shrewsbury . |
| 14 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 15 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 16 | And she knows that the secret of laughter is shared experience — laughing together at disasters and embarrassments that can happen to us all . |
| 17 | I suppose I do n't love you any more here than when we 're walking together in Ladbroke Grove — how romantic that might sound to a foreigner , by the way — and yet it seems as if I do . ’ |
| 18 | For the Eye was a zone where truespace and the warp actually overlapped , braiding together in nightmare distortions . |
| 19 | The small , brave lights wandered among the trees , keeping together for comfort . |
| 20 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |
| 21 | In 1976 , following several years of lobbying by feminists , poverty pressure groups , etc. , the Supplementary Benefits Commission of the Department of Health and Social Security produced its defence of the cohabitation rule , a paper entitled Living Together as Husband and Wife . |
| 22 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 23 | We published our report Living Together as Husband and Wife , on 4 March 1976 . |
| 24 | Women and men living together as couples who apply for Poll Tax benefit will have their joint incomes assessed when the amount of benefit is calculated . |
| 25 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 26 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 27 | The reason for this is the pragmatic one that the Taizé community comprises people from many Christian traditions living together under vows . |
| 28 | But romance is one thing , living together without discomfort is another . |
| 29 | Social security policy towards couples living together outside marriage , and other people sharing accomodation , embodies assumptions about the sharing of resources and about living costs , and about the nature of the relationship . |
| 30 | conscious … that their peoples have been living together in peace since 1945 ; |