Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a full meeting of the convention later , Councillor John Connolly , of Central Region and chairman of the COSLA water and sewerage committee , said that since a great deal had been heard about taking stock it was time Mr Lang faced up to the fact that he had completely lost the argument for privatised water and sewerage services , including a franchise arrangement . |
| 2 | You 've heard about deregulating cocaine . |
| 3 | Many inward investments can be criticized for lacking research and development facilities , for having limited local independence , and so on . |
| 4 | The analysis described above has been criticized for treating debt and taxation asymmetrically . |
| 5 | One anthropologist who studied an even more elaborately created system of autonomy than the Zuwaya 's has been criticized for ignoring routine and frequent contact between autonomous leaders and state governments : so it is academically important to probe into the actual relations of Zuwaya and Magharba with the Turkish authorities . |
| 6 | Although cognitive models are sometimes criticized for neglecting biology in the areas of , for instance , emotions and some mental disorders , they neglect social variables much more . |
| 7 | A Russian director , criticized for spending time advising an old peasant woman about the care of her turkeys , replied , ‘ Not at all , her whole life is in those turkeys . ’ |
| 8 | This way of looking at terms and not deciding their status until there has been a breach is very useful as it gives a welcome degree of flexibility to contracts , although it could be criticized for introducing uncertainty . |
| 9 | From the majors , and the American market , there is more classy female minimalism from The Roches , the trio of New York sisters who started out in the folk scene and evolved a style that veers between thinking woman 's pop and close-harmony experimentation . |
| 10 | Thus , the issue arose between redistributing work to the inexperienced solicitor or maintaining the experienced trial advocate , the ‘ Baron ’ , who was already in the dominant role . |
| 11 | One such society , the Ribbonmen , decided that Father Cavanagh must be punished for preaching non-violence , and swore a solemn oath to cut off the priest 's ears . |
| 12 | I knew people who were punished for speaking Gaelic in the playground in a Lochaber school earlier this century . |
| 13 | But today The Daily Mirror reveals what the Nineties teenager really thinks about making love . |
| 14 | But to the children of Gloucestershire , it 's just making a song and dance about having fun . |
| 15 | But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes . |
| 16 | FIERY actress Sophia Loren , 58 , stormed out of a Rome diner after her favourite waiter was sacked for taking time off to care for his sick wife . |
| 17 | WE often read of uncaring stars so it was a joy to learn that Sophia Loren had bailed out her favourite waiter after he was sacked for taking time off to care for his sick wife . |
| 18 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 19 | And , sacked for having cancer . |
| 20 | All three of England 's players who did not play against the Railways on Wednesday — Gladstone Small , Eddie Hemmings and Alec Stewart — get a game today , although there is a slight doubt about Phillip DeFreitas , who suffered a reaction to an elbow injury sustained during fielding practice . |
| 21 | Quilts were what you lay on to sunbathe that summer , not for warmth on beds , but slung for lounging comfort as it might be on some Damascus rooftop . |
| 22 | The main reason given for restricting investment in new technology was cost . |
| 23 | No cover is given for racing speedcraft . |
| 24 | WITH UK mortgage interest rates heading towards 14.75 per cent , and the possibility of even higher rates in prospect as a result of the sterling crisis , borrowers can be forgiven for taking notice of the proliferation of newspaper advertisements extolling the virtues of foreign currency loans . |
| 25 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 26 | THE cast list of the real-life royal soap opera is now getting so long and so complicated that all except its most avid followers can be forgiven for losing track . |
| 27 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 28 | The PORTAL system of the National Association of Securities Dealers ( NASD ) , developed for trading Rule 144A securities , has the capacity to handle both debt and equity securities . |
| 29 | Resistivity methods have been developed for investigating fracturing in boreholes . |
| 30 | In addition , a series of indices have been developed for demonstrating breakage in the skull and mandible , recognizing several stages of breakage of the bones and loss of the teeth from the jaws . |