Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are also good reasons for associating it with rich clusters ( groups of several hundred galaxies ) as these seem to have a collective halo , possibly formed from the material in the original haloes of the constituent galaxies .
2 Partners and staff are well known in the City , w providers of due diligence work with the major capitalists , with the bankers er with with the merchant bankers and so on and of course our plans for providing us with due diligence work .
3 Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching .
4 In any case , teaching English Literature to schoolchildren would only remind her daily of the superior satisfactions of teaching it to young adults .
5 Most football grounds now divide their rival fans by placing them at opposite ends of the ground and by preventing access between the ends .
6 Nineteenth century tries to stifle doubts by crushing you with sheer bulk , he wrote .
7 It trivialises sexual relationships by treating them in mechanistic fashion , its purpose being ‘ the stimulation of sexual desires in the reader or viewer ’ .
8 The advice on page 11 , number 6 , is helpful : most people devise mnemonics which help them to remember particular words by saying them in special ways .
9 Progressives , and radicals supporting reorganization of the schools and the introduction of non-streaming , are carrying their attack upon the grammar schools ' élitism into the curriculum , dismantling the traditional subjects by rearranging them through interdisciplinary work , projects and themes .
10 On Nov. 16 Sihanouk effectively repudiated his tacit understanding with the Khmers Rouges by associating himself with international calls for the prosecution of Pol Pot and others among the leadership for crimes against humanity .
11 Fred Brimacombe , lobster seller , Plymouth , on the city council 's proposal to stop fishermen killing lobsters by throwing them into boiling water .
12 Other than luck — winning the football pools or coming into a legacy — there are three main possibilities for providing you with extra money : your home , work and investment skill .
13 Even when pods have to be opened in the field , to save weight on the return journey , the seeds can be kept in good condition for two weeks by packing them in damp charcoal .
14 But what I set out to do was to show the idiocy of his ideas by bouncing them against other ideas , some of them perhaps equally extreme and absurd .
15 There are possibilities for encouraging pupils to listen to their own reading on tape , and to discuss what is going on , with the aims of helping them toward cognitive clarity and the expression of their feelings about the text .
16 NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures .
17 Lake Windermere 's ranger 's annual report has accused boat owners of polluting it with raw sewage and spent fuel , leading to noxious smells in warm weather .
18 There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) .
19 The average builder will probably have put in just a single central pendant light in each room , so we have to add extra lights by plugging them into precious socket outlets ( precious because the builder does n't put enough of these in either ! ) .
20 You can learn how to be a better decision-maker , how to plan and organize things efficiently , how to relax , how to take your mind off your problems by engrossing yourself in other things .
21 Asked to predict the most likely site of synaptic plasticity , theoreticians would probably have opted for the interneurons , as these can clearly receive and modulate signals from many different inputs before dispatching them to varied outputs .
22 Remove the vanilla pod , skim the jam , and let it cool for a few minutes before turning it into small jars .
23 For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed .
24 There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it .
25 There are other interest hedging products , such as interest rate options , which allow you , at a price , to benefit from favourable movements in interest rates without locking yourself into future rates should these prove unfavourable .
26 The beginner normally learns combination techniques by performing them against thin air .
27 Some Indian railways attempted to cope with the great pressure of third-class passengers by installing them in double-decker carriages , but these had soon to be abandoned because they proved to be unsafe and top-heavy .
28 The children were being encouraged to learn about sentences by using them in real contexts .
29 This material can be used in reactors by converting it into mixed ( MOX ) fuel .
30 Lord Crowther-Hunt , who has had experience both as a policy adviser and a minister , records in his book , The Civil Servants , that the permanent staff tended to isolate advisers by excluding them from official committees and by reducing the information available to them .
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