Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use gel for sculptured , spiky or slicked back styles , or for crisping up fringes and pieces . |
| 2 | inform about society , thus continuing the induction of pupils which they are already experiencing into the tradition which is theirs by virtue either of birth or of taking up residence in a country . |
| 3 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 4 | The failure properly to deal with troublesome residues among the masses , such as by allowing circulation of elites or by meting out violence where appropriate , may lead to the growth of ‘ Paretian tension ’ in the masses , civil unrest , revolution and ultimately the entire replacement of the decadent elite by a new governing elite . |
| 5 | However , the animals affect the plants , and the plants affect the soil ( for example , by providing protection against heavy rains , or by breaking up rocks with their roots , or producing acid which dissolves limestone ) ; and the plants also directly affect the climate ( for example by re-directing winds , or by transpiring soil moisture into the air ) . |
| 6 | Devising a sensitive scheme for the immediate follow-up of absentees , either , for example , by telephoning home or by sending out letters to parents/guardians |
| 7 | This may be achieved by using modules from the same Stage or by bringing together modules from different Stages as necessary . |
| 8 | The aim is to target small areas of the country initially , and then gradually expand operations , possibly by joint ventures , partnerships or by setting up offices there . |
| 9 | second , that through understanding how talk works we can choose to play high or low status as appropriate . |
| 10 | Many owned coffee plantations , and not unnaturally were more concerned with the success of their investments than with carrying out government policy . |
| 11 | Radmilovic claimed that in opening up Yugoslavia to foreign imports , by lowering tariffs in order to force domestic manufacturers to lower prices and become more competitive , the government had encouraged dumping , and was ruining domestic producers . |
| 12 | This may suggest that in putting forward candidates they were less sanguine of their chances than they might have been . |
| 13 | Nowhere , for example , will this be more apparent than in determining how management decisions are to be taken , the circumstances in which a partner is liable to be expelled , and how the shares of partners who leave the firm are to be acquired . |
| 14 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 15 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 16 | He explained to Gerald that by killing off bacteria in the gut , antibiotics can open the way for excessive growth by Candida . |
| 17 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 18 | In the long run the West could help Russia and Eastern Europe more by opening its markets to their produce than by handing over cash — and would immediately make itself a lot better off in the process ( see page 50 ) . |
| 19 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 20 | The wheel may be used for the identification of objects , for forming original sentences based on the pictures , and for building up stories around the picture ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 21 | Periodicals remain by far the most important research tool for academics , both for current awareness scanning and for chasing up citations to individual articles . |
| 22 | Wombles are fictitious animals from a TV series noted for their cleanliness , and for cleaning up litter and putting it to good use . |
| 23 | For gathering reference material and for working out ideas in sketch form it is hard to imagine a more convenient and practical medium . |
| 24 | Through setting goals with priority areas , and through involving both staff and pupils , it suggested each school could take its own path to becoming ‘ the considerate school . ’ |
| 25 | But group turnover fell 10 per cent to £560.7 million , profits after interest plunged by 40 per cent to £5.6 million and after writing off £2 million in exceptional charges , mainly redundancy costs , profits before tax dived by 61 per cent to £3.6 million , for their fifth consecutive year of decline . |
| 26 | The assumption is that if such research is successful , then pedagogy is a matter of conforming to the revealed sequence of natural acquisition and of setting up conditions in the classroom which replicate those of its emergence . |
| 27 | He is accused of direct interference in senior board and managerial appointments and other local decisions , and of holding back money in reserve to then push it out on waiting list initiatives . |
| 28 | Will he urge on the Government of India the importance of allowing independent observers and visitors into that region , and of taking up Pakistan 's offer that independent observers should be stationed along the line of control , to deal with the movement of people and the problem of terrorism , as well as the human rights issue ? |
| 29 | At the level of whole societies , written language serves the functions of record keeping and of storing both information and literary works . |
| 30 | It shows Professor Smith 's anger at Lord Young 's apparent refusal then to agree to what later became known as the £38 million sweeteners — accusing him of altering terms to ‘ British Aerospace 's disadvantage ’ and of putting forward points ‘ which neither I nor my advisers can understand ’ . |