Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 2 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , for bringing down runaway cows . ’ |
| 4 | A similar , pro-State position is implied in the way several anthropologists have stressed the potential of state organization for bringing about large-scale public works , such are irrigation or communications networks . |
| 5 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 6 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 7 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 8 | Mr Mellor will continue to be responsible for bringing in new laws on privacy and press intrusion if necessary . |
| 9 | The school meals service is a prime target in the government 's plans for bringing in outside contractors . |
| 10 | He was preciously responsible for bringing in big-name sponsors like British Rail and Barclays Bank . |
| 11 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
| 12 | There 's a case for bringing back those old style Tory values . |
| 13 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
| 14 | The four-month jail sentence given to Christopher Hart for mowing down nine-year-old Sharon Townsend was a disgrace . |
| 15 | It is very convenient for touching out small rust spots on anything that need reliable , safe treatment ; from garden tools , and wrought ironwork , to toys , bicycles and , of course , cars . |
| 16 | Selection of a suitable topic for investigation out of a set of possibilities can be made through the application of a number of criteria which can act as a useful screen for filtering out unsuitable topics . |
| 17 | Keep a few cans in store for whizzing up quick and nutritious meals for the family |
| 18 | Many of these are useful for using up small amounts of unusual or expensive yarn . |
| 19 | The district councils being usually responsible for drawing up detailed local plans in accordance with policies defined in the structure plans . |
| 20 | One of the good features of the pond is that the soil extracted for the depth was reused for building up other areas of the pond , so there was no waste to dispose of . |
| 21 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 22 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 23 | The police force for sniffing out these theological criminals was the notorious Inquisition . |
| 24 | John Turner had been a loom tuner ( a maintenance engineer ) responsible for maintaining over one hundred carpet looms for another large company . |
| 25 | 17 SUPER Mario 's left hand is known as his Block Bopper to punch his way through walls , and his right foot the Steel-toed Turtle Tromper , for stamping out deadly Koopa Turtles . |
| 26 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 27 | Neither is anybody convinced that the Union has any ideas about bringing about genuine improvement within the game . |
| 28 | I 'm talking about cord and five lines here for the minute aye and I 'm talking about bringing in talking about bringing in four or five lines down there , right ? |
| 29 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 30 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |