Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRINCESS Anne must take much of the credit for bringing royalty into the 20th Century . |
| 2 | In Southampton in the 1450s , when there was considerable bitterness in civic politics over the attitude to be taken to aliens , whether they should be welcomed for bringing wealth to the town , or attacked as intruders , marriage could lead a man to switch his allegiance from one group to another . |
| 3 | Janet was a pupil of the well-respected Professor Charcot ( 1825–1893 ) , who was responsible for founding the Salpêtrière School of Hypnotism in France and for bringing credibility to the subject . |
| 4 | Player power is once more causing concern amongst those responsible for administering tennis throughout the world . |
| 5 | In Luton , vandals who caused £50,000 damage to a Sikh temple were condemned for inflaming tension between the Hindus and Moslems , which has now claimed 600 lives in India . |
| 6 | In Climate and Life he recalls the work of his collaborator O.A. Drozdov on ‘ Changing the Climate in Connection with the Plan for Transforming Nature in the Drought Regions of the USSR ’ ; and studies by others on the feasibility of melting the polar ice with nuclear energy and by damming the Behring Straits and pumping water from the Behring Sea into the Arctic . |
| 7 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 8 | Largely because of the tax gains , but also the increased freedom it gives to the pensioner , many pension schemes have provision for allowing part of the value of the pension to be capitalized on retirement . |
| 9 | Mr Premium , thought Sir Peter , would abuse the public for allowing merit to an Act whose object was to snatch misfortune and prudence from the rapacious gripe of usury , and give the minor a chance of inheriting his estate without being undone by coming into possession . |
| 10 | Paradoxically , this is the one day of the week when there IS some justification for allowing traffic into the Park — so that it can be enjoyed by the aged and infirm whose only means of access is by car . |
| 11 | In one other sense fear was promoted by abolitionists as a motive for demanding abolition in the national interest — fear of divine judgement falling upon the guilty nation as a whole . |
| 12 | Literature is an innovative resource book which offers the teacher a wide variety of interesting and practical ideas for using literature in the language class . |
| 13 | There are many issues where a N C V O should be exercising leadership , sometimes a rather difficult concept , and there is no need to apologise for that , for using leadership at the right time , but it has to be a leadership by consent , rather than claimed without authority , and it is in this context that the policy development department in N C V O exists , to help channel voluntary sector concerns to opinion formers , and policy makers , regardless of party politics , regardless of political commitment . |
| 14 | The theoretical reason for using Jamaican as a reference point is that , as I shall argue in Chapter 4 , the main Creole influence on " London Jamaican " ( henceforth LJ ) really is Jamaican ; the comparison is therefore the appropriate one to make . |
| 15 | He further criticised him for using information from a confidential social work report to discredit a witness . |
| 16 | A study of the GEC bid to takeover Plessey outlines clearly the conflict that can exist between maintaining competition in the domestic market and restructuring an industry to enable it to compete with foreign competition , by allowing rationalisation to occur and encouraging the combined group to exploit economies of scale . |
| 17 | A metal hook at the top end of the handle is used for recovering line from a hole and is also useful for drawing rabbits out of a hole at a distance beyond the length of a man 's arm . |
| 18 | Near Snodland was an Elizabethan house with an old cage wheel , formerly used for drawing water from a well some one hundred and twenty feet deep . |
| 19 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 20 | The logic of this means that the majority of directors tend to be account executives — the people with the main responsibility for maintaining contact with the client ( see page 46 ) — rather than heads of departments . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as we are concerned it would not be proper to give the actual amounts , but these negotiations are useful for maintaining contact with the landowner . ’ |
| 22 | Sewell had been made responsible to Coleman for maintaining discipline among the students . |
| 23 | Speaker 's aide in the House of Commons , who is responsible for maintaining discipline in the Chamber . |
| 24 | In 1907 the GC opened Wath yard , ideally situated for accepting traffic from the South Yorkshire collieries . |
| 25 | Bob says he thinks Senada was initially wary about accepting hospitality from a single man . |
| 26 | When we turn to the third section of Figure 1.10 , we see a wide range of devices for receiving information from the outside world , for transmitting information to the outside world , and for expanding the storage capacity of the computer . |
| 27 | He welcomed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and William III appointed him a commissioner of the Admiralty , a responsibility he took very seriously , effectively using Whitehaven for gathering intelligence during the Irish war of 1689–90 . |
| 28 | They are acceptable , for example , for gathering evidence of a candidate 's knowledge and understanding — but they would not be acceptable for providing evidence of practical skills such as driving or welding . |
| 29 | Developmental charts and checklists are an attempt to provide a simple , non-technical procedure for gathering information about a child 's language . |
| 30 | However , the research assistant responsible for organizing fieldwork in the two outer-city community studies ( John Harris ) is an Ulsterman , and therefore , although in no sense associated with any of Ulster 's political pressure groups , was very conscious that there were parts of the city which he could not visit freely and confidently . |