Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point we think it worth using a little space to examine the concept of accountability . |
| 2 | SOAP opera Emmerdale Farm has been told to tone down its adverts after using a steamy picture to try to win over younger viewers . |
| 3 | He took out his first patent at the age of twenty-four , after inventing a portable alarm to attach to watches and clocks . |
| 4 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 5 | Peter Murphy was later released after signing a written promise to appear in Danbury Superior Court , Ridgefield , next Friday . |
| 6 | Bishop , now on loan from Hull Kingston Rovers to London Crusaders , says his final rugby ambition is to coach Pontypool after serving a three-year ban to regain his amateur status . |
| 7 | The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning . |
| 8 | If the buyer , takes delivery and , after having a reasonable opportunity to examine the goods to see if they comply with the contract , he does some act inconsistent with the seller being the owner of them ( e.g. by selling them ) . |
| 9 | Cost leadership may come more through capturing a large-enough share to enable the company to take better advantage of economies of scale than its rivals . |
| 10 | It may sometimes be worth forming a special unit to support the creation , implementation , maintenance and evaluation of the policy . |
| 11 | This summer he fired the £600,000 a year president of his US TV subsidiary for hiring a male stripper to perform for an audience of high-powered Murdoch executives . |
| 12 | Quite independent of the social merits of re-using a redundant building to provide comfortable dwellings for local people at modest rents , a main factor encouraging the retention of All Saints Church was the value accorded by the local authority planners to the building for its contribution to the townscape . |
| 13 | What are the problems of allowing a high-priority device to interrupt the servicing of a low-priority device ? |
| 14 | Carrington made the mistake of allowing a small smile to show . |
| 15 | I have already set out the dangers of allowing a governmental authority to have the right to sue . |
| 16 | While I like the idea of allowing a different pianist to combine with strings for each work , I miss that element of personality and insight which a great soloist such as Rubinstein brought to this music . |
| 17 | During the takeover battle , questions were raised about the desirability of allowing a foreign airline to bid for a British airline , providing access to Britain 's second largest ‘ hub ’ . |
| 18 | The university teacher in Britain , thinking of producing a tape-slide sequence to explain a particular concept or process to his students , may well need only to consider , with a production assistant , the learning objectives , the structure of the process to be considered , the best ways to exemplify this in the photographs to be taken , the graphics to design , and the commentary to write , and then turn it all over to the producer to put into effect , with his guidelines and help . |
| 19 | She had elected to keep the group to women only , instead of employing a male model to act as bridegroom , but as she came out of the dressing-room she would have welcomed someone to walk by her side . |
| 20 | The exhibition provides a unique opportunity for anyone considering keeping a particular breed to have a good look , talk to the owner and make other helpful contacts . |
| 21 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |
| 22 | The Labour MP , Clive Soley , has accused Michael Heseltine of meeting a Saudi prince to discuss donations to the Conservative Party . |
| 23 | FORMER Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough was accused yesterday of liking a personal pay-off to help transfer deals go through . |
| 24 | FORMER Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough was accused yesterday of liking a personal pay-off to help transfer deals go through . |
| 25 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 26 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
| 27 | A method of gall bladder tissue culture from the guinea pig gall bladder has been developed in the hope of providing a direct tool to study the biological and immunological characteristics of these cells . |
| 28 | In this chapter we shall examine a construction which has the basic value of providing a subordinate property to assist in identification of some entity when this is not fully achieved by the noun . |
| 29 | On the one hand , you have the country 's premier club in the process of spending a small fortune to reconstruct an ageing team : on the other , a Second Division side thriving on young , home-grown talent who may have to be sold to Liverpool and other members of the wealthy elite . |
| 30 | Santos preaches the virtues of working legitimately for a crust and our hero merely sneers until he spies the seductive posterior of Amber Evans ( Stacey Dash ) , follows her into her swanky office and obtains a job in the mailroom despite having a criminal record to rival Al Capone . |