Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |
| 2 | using last year 's bills as a guide if you still have a record of them ( try looking at old cheque book stubs ) , or trusting to memory , estimate how much you think you will have to pay in the coming year . |
| 3 | This can take the form of assessing the situation or bringing into consideration other factors ( political climate , human values , competitors ' stance ) which can not easily be quantified . |
| 4 | Scarcely a day passes without us reading in the newspapers or seeing on television assaults , batteries , violent acts of all kinds . |
| 5 | The BO4510 Palm Sander is the ideal tool for all those small awkward jobs involving sanding into tight corners or confined spaces , or sanding between staircase rail supports . |
| 6 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 7 | The open day at the centre at St Catherine 's Hospital , Birkenhead , between 10am and 4pm , is aimed at people who have had a heart attack , are waiting for or recovering from surgery , or have a family history of heart disease . |
| 8 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 9 | or sticking on top of it er loosely er amendment |
| 10 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 11 | But in poor families , many youngsters spend Saturdays earning money or helping at home , which prevents them attending such classes . |
| 12 | A saving is one way of looking at it or profiting from education is another way , apparently what the Conservatives would wish to do , they wish to make people pay for education and there is no other way of looking at it . |
| 13 | These also involve processing within the brain but are slightly different from what is normally meant by thinking or drawing on memory and experience . |
| 14 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 15 | ‘ Most churches are completely unprepared for the shock of finding an established member of the congregation is infected with HIV or dying with AIDS , even though this is increasingly common . ’ |
| 16 | In the UK , lakes in Snowdonia National Park , most of mid Wales , the Lake District , Cairngorms , Pennines and even on the Surrey heaths , are dead or dying from acidity . |
| 17 | These emerged as the movement represented by the Enlightenment itself became more self-critical and less brashly confident in its own rationalism ; but that does not make them any the less significant or challenging for theology . |
| 18 | Strathclyde 's spokesman says that they are acting in loco parentis , in place of the parent , but whereas many parents will happily take children hillwalking or boating without training , the council insists on trip leaders having proper qualifications . |
| 19 | ‘ My job is to effect the disentanglement , with the University having a clear view of how successful the press is , and the extent to which it is calling on or contributing to University funds , ’ says David Martin . |
| 20 | Section 34 of the EPA requires a broker in waste or any person producing , importing , carrying , keeping , treating or disposing of waste ( other than a householder ) to ‘ take all such measures applicable to him in that capacity as are reasonable in the circumstances ’ to : |
| 21 | In contrast , the more experiences and activities are such that we find it hard to make sense of them existing or occurring in isolation , the more difficult it will be , on Moore 's principles , to find anything of real inherent value in them . |
| 22 | He will undoubtedly find that the very term ‘ baptism ’ is a difficult one to use all the time , since it really refers to the rite of immersing in or sprinkling with water as a sign of purification and , with Christian churches , admission to the Church . |
| 23 | Finally avoid wearing nylon clothes or walking on nylon carpet if at all possible . |
| 24 | Hashing , which takes its name from a Malaysian eating house where the hobby originated before World War II , involves running or walking in pursuit of ‘ hares ’ — volunteers who act as the quarry . |
| 25 | In the case of the spontaneous goals from which the ends are chosen , the same neutrality would be theoretically conceivable ; it is possible to imagine a being immune from pleasure and pain , who is moved towards or away without either welcoming or shrinking from awareness . |
| 26 | The breeding , rearing , or fattening of beef cattle can be viable in the right conditions , although it is hard to make a profit on a very small scale . |
| 27 | It banned all political parties , social organizations or mass movements involved in inciting ethnic or racial hostility , using violence on ethnic , racial or religious grounds , or agitating for violation of the territorial integrity of the USSR or any of its union or autonomous republics , autonomous oblasts or okrugs . |
| 28 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 29 | One of the many unusual facets of Hannah Hauxwell is her reaction to certain situations which would daunt much more apparently sophisticated people and which one would expect to be overwhelming for a simple soul from the back of beyond , such as meeting , on level terms some of the famous and mighty , or appearing in front of milling crowds and even standing up to address them . |
| 30 | 36 , or relating to protection of the environment or the working environment ’ shall notify such provisions to the Commission , and the Commission may confirm them after having verified that they are not a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States . |