Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun pl] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company wants the $18m or so net proceeds for financing accounts receivable and inventory and for working capital . |
| 2 | This rather crude form of collegial evaluation tends to induce a certain kind of conservatism in teachers , an attachment to existing classroom methods which appear to be reasonably successful in keeping results high and noise levels low . |
| 3 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 4 | Further down the gill , on a high bank on the south side and at the base of a low cliff , is the opening of Capnut ( or Katnot ) Cave where a roomy passage can be followed without encountering difficulties other than darkness for a hundred yards before returning to daylight . |
| 5 | For him , the main issue was job security , to be sustained by keeping pits open and working hours restrained ( the latter policy being advanced on the argument that longer working hours and working weeks threatened safety standards ) . |