Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may include written work , answering questions or completing worksheets on a source , and whole class or group discussion . |
| 2 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 3 | The latter often are pushed off the most suitable land for cultivation and are forced to make a living cultivating steep slopes or pasturing animals on a reduced amount of land . |
| 4 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time after the Consignment has been tendered . |
| 5 | consignee not taking or accepting delivery within a reasonable time |
| 6 | He said : ‘ In a company such as ours there is a huge reservoir of potentially valuable information simply lying around untapped , maybe in someone 's head or gathering dust in a file somewhere . |
| 7 | In Wales for example where HSU 3 ( History Study Unit ( History Curriculum , England ) ) consists of the core unit " Early peoples , Celts and Romans " , on a museum visit or using material from a museum loan collection , the class might compare a flint scraper and the remnants of an iron knife blade , and look at the importance of the discovery of metals , and the differences it has made to people 's lives . |
| 8 | Whether we 're working on drama as a subject in its own right , developing a school play or using drama as a means of focusing and enhancing work in other curriculum areas , working with other adults is potentially very rewarding . |
| 9 | In other cases of benefiting non-shareholder interests , for example installing more effective anti-pollution equipment than is consistent with maximum profits or required by law , or delaying closure of a redundant factory in order to preserve jobs , the conduct , as with growth-motivated behaviour , is an integral part of business activity and so not susceptible to this kind of attack . |
| 10 | Several of these points were taken up in the Takeover Panel case in which Lord Donaldson said that the court should be wary of allowing judicial review to be used as a tactical or delaying device by a company which is the target of a takeover bid or by one of several rival bidders . |
| 11 | Even as late as the Elizabethan theatre , where we find an owner or lessee in contractual or hiring relations with a company or with individuals , the processes of internal control of the production are obscure . |
| 12 | The meeting of Experts in June 1978 discussed a difficult question , raised by the United States , as to whether or not a Central Authority was obliged to prosecute or to defend an appeal against a decision of the judicial authority granting or refusing execution of a Letter . |
| 13 | Buildings in good condition in villages or forming part of a farm complex should be much cheaper to convert than a ruin miles from the nearest mains water and electricity — although even these sell . |
| 14 | ( a ) Specializing , as in the cases of sustaining or promoting work in a particular medium or branch of an art , and in some circumstances a particular style ; |
| 15 | This view depends , of course , on seeing the reader , not as a unique individual , a private being , but as a vessel or meeting point for a variety of cultural codes and literary conventions , and it is in these terms and not those of affective experience that reading and readers would have to be discussed : the reader qua reader is as much the product of a ‘ grammar ’ ( however loosely this notion may now be conceived ) as was the text in classical structuralism . |
| 16 | Some find great benefit in identifying a small group of staff who for a limited period are assigned to a relief pool , for the sole purpose of filling unexpected gaps in staffing or adding strength to a ward team at times of peak workload . |
| 17 | You will be able to choose from traditional , elegant , white decor doors , which are popular for bedrooms , or silver mirror doors , which are great for brightening up a dingy hallway or adding light to a small , dark room . |
| 18 | For behaviours which do not have obvious start and finish points , watching television or paying attention to a lesson for example , it is more appropriate to measure the length of time they last . |
| 19 | And for my money that does not include such activities as flipping through Who 's Who , taking a telephone directory off the shelf , or getting hold of a mate 's mate on the blower . |
| 20 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 21 | Prevent an offence by anyone else of disposing , treating or sorting waste at a site that does not have a waste management licence , is operating in contravention of the conditions of any such licence , or is operating in a manner likely to cause pollution or harm to health . |
| 22 | As well as the programs for increasing the patterning facility , the Design Controller has programs for saving or erasing patterns on a memory card and of course loading patterns from the memory card into the Design Controller . |
| 23 | But simply supplying the latest efficient machines , or sending experts to a country for a few months are not long-term answers , and do not address the most intractable barriers to action . |
| 24 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 25 | At present there is no standard assessment offered to anyone seeking or requiring care as a result of their mental condition and as a consequence placement can be decided on factors other than the medical and social needs of the sufferer . |
| 26 | Tyndall was a Professor at the Royal Institution , and an accomplished lecturer in that tradition , where arousing interest in a general audience was all-important , in contrast to academics training students , who thought of him as windy and superficial . |
| 27 | Preventing or curing disease by a change in lifestyle raises problems to do with education and politics that are somewhat beyond our scope . |
| 28 | If luxuriating in a country house hotel or having fun on a farm or enjoying a weekend by the sea appeals to you , why not get hold of our Where to Stay accommodation guides . |
| 29 | Originally it was a term of respect denoting a godparent — as Queen Elizabeth I was the gossip at the baptism of her godson James VI , or indicating friends with a common spiritual bond . |
| 30 | In the absence of any express directions the parties are expected to adduce their evidence in the following order ( FPCR , r21(3) ; FPR , r4.21(2) ) : ( i ) the applicant ; ( ii ) any party with parental responsibility ; ( iii ) other respondents ; ( iv ) the guardian ad litem ; ( v ) the child if there is no guardian ad litem ( or he is conducting his own case or giving instructions to a solicitor on his own behalf ) . |