Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , you get a subsidized grant for going to London , yeah , so you get like more than normal |
| 2 | The fortunate pre-school child will have considerable preparation for reading from book activities in the home and at the play-group , and by visiting the public library . |
| 3 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 4 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 5 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 6 | This showed a girl removing her clothes in preparation for going to bed . |
| 7 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 8 | Grosskurth suggests such a policy should include not only housing provision , but an adequate preparation for coping with independent living after years of dependent living in institutions . |
| 9 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 10 | WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later . |
| 11 | On the three-day , residential course held on December 4–6 at Pendle 's training centre in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales , you 'll learn preparation for returning to a changed work environment : Assertiveness Training , Personal Development plus two basic sales training sessions . |
| 12 | Reassessing the skills you bring back to nursing or health visiting can be a worthwhile preparation for returning to practice , even if you feel a poor judge of what skills might be most needed in the future . |
| 13 | These personal responses to discussions of parental figures should be recognised by social workers in preparation for working in this area . |
| 14 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 15 | A speech by the prince about caring for the terminally ill sounded so close to his wife 's concerns she could have written it herself . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ Although I 've played next to no club rugby , I 've got lots of big match experience through playing in all the age-group teams England now run . ’ |
| 17 | The what 's the quick trick for multiplying by ten ? |
| 18 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |
| 19 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 20 | Scott also suggested that in addition to carrying out some exercise or activity focused around one of the essential concepts , pupils should be given the opportunity for reflecting on the thinking processes they have gone through . |
| 21 | Mental activity and life-satisfaction in old age thrive , in part , on the elderly having plenty of opportunity for talking with others . |
| 22 | Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience . |
| 23 | Together , drawing up a training plan which gives adequate opportunity for working as a group , as well as identifying individual training needs . |
| 24 | At the back of our minds however , was a feeling that partnership could provide the school with an opportunity for working within our community to develop inter-industry contact which could be beneficial for all concerned . |
| 25 | A knowledge base represents information available to a variety of individuals involved in the construction of a building : this domain provides an opportunity for reasoning about various kinds of modality — possibility , necessity , temporal , causal etc . |
| 26 | While many day centres and day hospitals provide a ‘ social club ’ environment , the environment is highly segregated and normally provides little opportunity for mixing with other people outside the mental health system or at evenings or weekends . |
| 27 | Having had the opportunity through working at a hospice of attending many funerals I have grown used to seeing the shudders and worried looks that pass between grieving family and friends as they struggle to make sense of the words being read . |
| 28 | The club wants to develop an existing small-scale permission for gliding at Ridgewell by erecting permanent buildings , increasing the area of the runway and adding other on-site facilities . |
| 29 | Indeed , the 1973 white paper , Widening the Choice : The Next Steps in Housing , after noting that ‘ the prospect of heavy expenditure on ancillary services often makes local authorities reluctant to give planning permission for housing on land which is otherwise ripe for development ’ , proposed an extension of planning agreements and a compulsory infrastructure charge . |
| 30 | These committees , most of which meet several times each term , are responsible under the Hebdomadal Council and the General Board for keeping under review all aspects of academic activity in their areas in the University as a whole and for scrutinising proposals for new developments and procedures , which must be submitted to them by faculty boards , departments , and other bodies . |