Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time , after strictly avoiding sugar and white flour , the number of other " binge " foods may be found to be reduced to zero . |
| 2 | Traore , 56 , was found guilty by a majority of the seven judges of deliberately causing death and injury to demonstrators , some of whom were blinded or lost limbs . |
| 3 | The reality of this picture of vibrant , ‘ grass roots ’ capitalist development in the Third World is attested to by the abundant evidence of rapidly rising commercialisation and the resulting social differentiation ( especially in the rural areas of Asia and Africa ) , coupled with the relative expansion of wage-labour at the expense of family and self-employment , including feudal-type tenurial relationships . |
| 4 | He added , ‘ the history of humankind has now confirmed that a single-party system relying exclusively on coercion and deception is incapable of ever bringing prosperity and happiness to our people . ’ |
| 5 | But now in the monsoon , Sigarup , Murti Lāl and the sheep inhabited a celestial world of their own , a patch of grassland in a stratosphere of densely swirling mist and cloud . |
| 6 | Committees might be used within an organisation as a means of either delegating authority or pooling authority . |
| 7 | Bad debts , provisions against slow moving stock and depreciation are all areas that require judgment and are therefore fudgeable . |
| 8 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 9 | I returned to face my next class with wildly beating heart and in a state of utter confusion , of mingled joy , misery , hope and despair . |
| 10 | a WYSIWYG program feature for accurately aligning text or graphics . |
| 11 | That is part of the meaning revealed through the Incarnation and it is this spontaneous integrity of being that mystics glimpse and in so doing serve and inspire the Christian society , of which they are a part , struggling to repair the ravages of sin . |
| 12 | This prohibits local authorities from intentionally promoting homosexuality or publishing material ‘ with the intention of promoting homosexuality ’ , or promoting ‘ the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Sir , it prevents the Marine from ever experiencing nausea or vertigo due to disorientation , however extreme . ’ |
| 14 | I therefore decline to don the straitjacket of those scientists ( not all ) who can only accept such facts as they reach via their own limited , analytic logic ; who tend to study the parts in ever narrowing detail but too seldom consider the whole . |
| 15 | ‘ You think by rushing in here breathing fire and fury you will distract me from pursuing other matters … ’ |
| 16 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 17 | ‘ I stayed up until 3am watching television and thought it was great . |
| 18 | Managers should be responsible for regularly agreeing training and development needs with each employee in the context of business objectives , setting targets and standards linked , where appropriate to the achievement of National Vocational Qualifications ( or relevant units ) and , in Scotland , Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 19 | Minor buffering phases such as phlogopite and carbonates , which may play a role in low-degree partial melting of the mantle , have been invoked as an explanation for high U/Pb in areas of old continental lithosphere , but there is no obvious phase that will buffer K and Pb to produce the effect observed in Fig. 3 b , without also affecting Ba or Ti ; Ba/Ce ratios of central Atlantic OIB are in fact relatively uniform . |
| 20 | Of those who try to retain their former beauty , some apparently succeed very well , but without really allowing age and experience to modify this . |
| 21 | Two other hackers , Karl Strickland , 22 , of Childhall Road , Liverpool , and Neil Woods , 26 , of Broadway , Chadderton , Oldham , have already pled guilty to dishonestly obtaining information and will be sentenced later . |
| 22 | But — so long as it was made clear that this was a genuine option , and entirely voluntary — we are in favour of lenders in this country at least recommending insurance and pointing out its advantages . |
| 23 | With almost every tournament director and the leading management companies either firmly opposing them or at least advising caution and most of their leading players apparently having doubts , a climbdown was already inevitable . |
| 24 | The conflict between actively fashioning language and allowing oneself to be constructed by conventional systems is provisionally resolved by valorizing submissiveness as Christian humility , but present are the basic elements of a dilemma which is to remain with Brooke-Rose for several decades . |
| 25 | He may use a type of emotional blackmail against you and other people close to him , by constantly demanding attention but refusing to allow other people to perform necessary chores for him , on the grounds that ‘ you do it better ’ . |
| 26 | By also promoting treatment and support outside the hospital , the unit aims to reach more women . |
| 27 | If a yellow card scantily punished that , Schuster was to make full payment in the last minute when he earned another caution by childishly wasting time and was sent off : an unusual , but justifiable decision . |
| 28 | Professional punters can make it pay by carefully studying form but the average punter will end up with £81 for every Pounds 100 staked . |
| 29 | We have already noted in Chapter 8 that nationalized industries have often side-stepped their ‘ cash limit ’ ( the EFL ) by actually cutting investment and the quality of service rather than by cutting costs . |
| 30 | By continually signalling attentiveness and responsiveness to the signals of the other — it is infuriating to talk to someone who stares out of the window all the time . |