Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When serving out of England and Wales , the court fixes in the case of a default summons , or in a fixed date action to which Ord 17 , r11 ( automatic directions ) applies , the time for delivering an admission or defence or for paying the total claim and costs into court , and in any other case a return day ( Ord 8 , rr 2(3) , 4 and 7 ) . |
| 2 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 3 | They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings . |
| 4 | But IBM rules out the possibility of taking a majority share or of buying the entire company . ’ |
| 5 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 6 | However , effective S-turns are not easy to do , and they need to be practised if they are not to end up in dangerously steep turns or in bringing the final turn too close to the field . |
| 7 | Wells concludes that " adolescents and adults , faced with a new linguistic environment , can adapt their speech to a certain extent by modifying the phonetic realisation of their phonemes ; but they do not on the whole succeed in acquiring new phonological oppositions or in altering the distributional constraints on their phonology " ( Wells 1973 : 118 ) . |
| 8 | Treatment programs have been relatively ineffective in initially halting abusive and neglectful behaviour or in reducing the future likelihood of maltreatment in the most severe cases of physical abuse , chronic neglect and emotional maltreatment . |
| 9 | Detection of a semantic anomaly is highly informative because it indicates that an error may have been made either in understanding the context , or in perceiving the new unit . |
| 10 | Lung complaints from working in foul , damp mines or from inhaling the sulphurous fumes from the smelting mills were widespread . |
| 11 | Or without extending the whole process so that it takes nearly a year to change anything ? |
| 12 | Distal small bowel lesions may also be shown by reflux at barium enema or by entering the terminal ileum at colonoscopy . |
| 13 | Copies are available free from Forestry Commission District Offices or by contacting the Public Information Division , Forestry Commission , 231 Corstrophine Road , Edinburgh . |
| 14 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
| 15 | So the government can correct for this type of market failure by increasing aggregate demand , either by spending more itself or by getting the private sector to increase its spending , through tax cuts or an expansion in the money supply and lower interest rates . |
| 16 | They can be translated into English either by using a similar ‘ dummy ’ subject , They speak English , where they does not refer to a specific agent , or by using the passive voice , English is spoken . |
| 17 | If you have to change your autoexec.bat or config.sys files , you must then REBOOT ( restart by either turning it off then on or by using the reset button ) your computer for the changes to take effect . |
| 18 | Scanning can be performed using the stand-alone scanner , supplied with LIFESPAN , or by using the online scanner , available while logged onto LIFESPAN through option 1.4.0 , Scan A Module . |
| 19 | When there is , as physically there must always be , an and effect in the Couette viscometer it may be taken into account by performing measurements with various values of the fluid column length l or by using the exact theory for a conical end derived by Mooney & Ewart ( 1934 ) and used in the Cone and Plate Viscometer . |
| 20 | Users may also scan modules themselves by selecting the appropriate LIFESPAN option or by using the stand-alone scanner program to check the module header before reaching this stage . |
| 21 | The process is then terminated only by reaching a spatial domain where success is achieved , or by reaching the local domain in which the relationship was originally defined without success . |
| 22 | On the one hand , law is one means by which the political system wields its power against the peace movement , by prosecuting , fining or imprisoning individual protestors , by altering bye-laws or by controlling the very right to protest . |
| 23 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 24 | This proposal was tested in rat experiments by Brunsson , who showed that the fluid secretion evoked by an invasive strain of Salmonella typhimurium ( R5 ) was turned into absorption after giving intravenous hexamethonium or by exposing the intestinal serosa to lidocaine , a local anaesthetic . |
| 25 | They can also be obtained from Red Cross branches , Sketchley dry cleaners , wherever the Care In Crisis poster is displayed or by phoning the Red Cross headquarters in London on 071–235-3149 . |
| 26 | Malaria can be controlled by attacking the parasite ( with drugs or — theoretically — with vaccines ) ; by controlling the vectors ( mosquitoes ) that carry it ; or by protecting the human host from being bitten . |
| 27 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 28 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 29 | Pressures for some " democratisation " of foreign policy and for weakening the dangerous grip on international relations of allegedly cynical and reactionary foreign offices were not confined to Britain . |
| 30 | We are grateful to our union for making this possible , and for sponsoring the retired members in this way ever since . |