Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAS 's role in advising on or assisting in the preparation of a client 's Information memorandum does not involve the issuance of a published report nor does it involve any association with the client 's Information memorandum beyond that set out in the terms of engagement , which should be appropriately limited . |
| 2 | The following procedures should be adopted when advising on or assisting in the preparation of an Information memorandum : |
| 3 | Before considering future development it would be advisable for those agencies already providing or assisting in the provision of day care to evaluate current service to determine its efficacy . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
| 5 | These included conciliatory actions such as showing concern for , comforting , helping or apologizing to the other . |
| 6 | Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security . |
| 7 | Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore . |
| 8 | AN INDEPENDENT Scottish government would remove any form of privatisation or franchising from the rail network , the Scottish National Party declared yesterday . |
| 9 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 10 | Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) . |
| 11 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 12 | While his explanations do not seem clearly to separate older arguments about managers under- or over-investing from the impact of the business-cycle stage itself , it does seem clear that investment at the right time , i.e. early in the product life-cycle , does lead to increased ROI if management is able to establish its product in the market place and control costs . |
| 13 | For most of them all else , whether it be playing the organ or other instruments , or singing in the choir , is laid upon the foundation of what is learnt at school . |
| 14 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 15 | Encourage the patient to do the types of activities recommended for him , and try to prevent him from sitting idly , or gazing at the television . |
| 16 | It was an appointment , as William Adam pointed out , which ‘ often follows at a great distance of time after the application & entring on the list ’ . |
| 17 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |
| 18 | It 's back to the stationary bike or jogging in the pool . |
| 19 | Catch a man bitching about healthhazards and conditions and going out on strike over no papertowels in the toilet or nagging over the lack of day nursery facilities |
| 20 | Once you come into contact with the other side you can drop down into command the individual tanks and engage in fast armoured conflict — the controls here do take some getting used to , although you can opt to assign either the driving or firing to the computer . |
| 21 | Oddly for years , it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the " … wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder … |
| 22 | Thiercelin drove the butt of his musket into his head , and the giant slumped dead or dying amidst the rubble . |
| 23 | None of us needs any particular other any more , so acquaintance is a whim , flowering or dying with the moment . |
| 24 | Each are accounted for in the same way : budgeted expenditure is compared with actual spending , budgeted income with actual income , and any net under- or over-spending on the vote as a whole is paid over to , or collected from , the Consolidated Fund . |
| 25 | People are grabbing at each other and pushing , pulling and scuffling , or twisting in the air with imaginary opponents , urging their own version of violence . |
| 26 | It can also lead to narrowness in that staff may have technical and specialist information in a single field but little concern or understanding about the work of other departments . |
| 27 | In this circumstance , the term note-taking is more appropriate , for there is little creation or understanding in the process . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Underwriting arrangements on arm 's length commercial terms between the offeror and underwriters and sub-underwriters ( eg in respect of a cash underwritten alternative ) are not normally considered by the Panel to amount to an agreement or understanding within the meaning of " acting in concert " . |
| 29 | Penalties have also been revised and those who cause death by dangerous driving or driving under the influence face up to 10 years in prison , an unlimited fine and a minimum 2 years ’ disqualification . ’ |
| 30 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |