Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is essential for successfully addressing inequalities in health . |
| 2 | The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people . |
| 3 | The Ugandan government had suspended five of its pilots for apparently carrying weapons on board a Ugandan-registered aircraft from Bophuthatswana to Zagreb , where they had been impounded by the Yugoslav authorities . |
| 4 | With both men having defences more vulnerable than Leeds , there should be no complaints even from those paying $800 for ringside seats about not getting value for money . |
| 5 | If only they had n't become so friendly , he was sure he would have enjoyed having a relationship with her ; but he had a rule about not mixing sex with friendship . |
| 6 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 7 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 8 | It is in Africa and India that one can still find patients ravaged by the late complications of syphilis , gonorrhoea , and lymphogranuloma venereum , and any hopes of eventually controlling levels of infection will almost certainly depend on paramedical or ‘ barefoot ’ doctors ’ playing a larger role . |
| 9 | Finally , I shall , largely by reference to these two Acts , share with you some thoughts about the problems of successfully translating policies into practice . |
| 10 | The final part of my paper concerns the difficulties of successfully translating policies into practice . |
| 11 | The same applies to fulfilling the goal , worthwhile in itself to many , of merely having men in space . |
| 12 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 13 | Although the offence of having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 has the advantage of not requiring proof of lack of consent , it carries a maximum penalty of just two years ’ imprisonment . |
| 14 | So that although the theoretical presuppositions of traditional literary criticism are very different from Derrida 's , the student of literature is likely to recognize his strategy of not taking texts at face value . |
| 15 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 16 | The developments that we have seen vindicate the policy of not doing deals with hostage takers . |
| 17 | This project will develop ways of automatically adding information about word meaning to computer readable texts . |
| 18 | Playing time is longer about one hour of straight playing time per side — but random access is less accurate . |
| 19 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 20 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 21 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 22 | It was shown above ( cf. ( 45 ) ) that watch can only evoke a process of voluntarily laying hold of sense data by means of visual perception . |
| 23 | Such measures take into account society 's expectations of steadily rising standards of living , which also affect those living in poverty . |
| 24 | It is certainly true that , in most applications , some records are processed far more frequently than others , and a number of commonly occurring distributions of update frequency are examined below . |
| 25 | All the weeks of reluctantly keeping Yanto at bay , plus having her hand on a male sexual organ for the first time in her twenty five years of life , was too much for Molly . |
| 26 | erm If you further make things difficult from the point of view of actually banning imports of timber from Uganda you may in fact be able . |
| 27 | Of course that is n't all that 's involved in doing physics , not at all — there are other aspects of actually having ideas about physics , but in the time they will see some pattern emerging within that experiment . |
| 28 | In a separate development , the UK on Aug. 20 demanded the immediate release of British businessman , Paul Ride , who had received a seven-year prison sentence for illegally entering Iraq without travel documents in late June . |
| 29 | Whatever the image of Brent , now and in the past , I would applaud it , in my time there , for honestly addressing issues of selection policy that most other authorities were too faint-hearted to address [ the ad hominem attack is typical ] . |
| 30 | Some of them are American and a subset of them have this risible attitude that they can get away with just making loads of noise and , as long as the audience is in a similarly altered state of mind , no-one will be the wiser . |