Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We thank all the VAST field , laboratory , computer centre , and administrative staff , especially Mr Martin Adjuik , Mr Azumah Amidini , Mr J Kwabena Badu , Ms Margaret Gyapong , Mr Eric Kasise , Mr Ogyebre Owusu-Agyei , and Mr David Pendlebury ; the population of Kassena-Nankana District and their leaders ; the Regional and District Administration and Health Services ; Dr Moses Adibo and Dr Sam Adjei , ( Ministry of Health of Ghana ) for support and encouragement ; Prof Patrick Vaughan and other colleagues at the LSHTM for support and advice ; Ms Nina Saroi for administrative and secretarial support in London ; Dr Sandra Saenz de Tejada and the WHO-ARI Programme for preliminary study of local concepts and terminology of illness ; Ms Gilly Maude for the randomisation and interim analysis ; Ms Sharon Huttly , Mr Ben Amenuvegbe , and the late Mr Steve Tulloch for helping to design the data management system ; Dr Hazel Inskip and Mr Jerry Wheeler for advice on data processing ; Ms Penny Fennell for help with the training of the computing and secretarial staff ; Ms Rebecca Abbott and Dr Suzanne Filteau ( Institute of Child Health , London ) for measuring serum retinol ; Dr Andy Hall for helping to code the cause of death questionnaires ; and the members of the data monitoring committee for reviewing the interim results .
2 The general value of a pilot study for helping to assess the importance of information gathered by relatively unsystematic observation and analysis may be demonstrated with reference to the variable ( a ) in Belfast .
3 An award for helping to improve the environment and simultaneously giving support to a local hospice , has been presented to Stoddard Carpets Ltd .
4 Several members of the prison staff said they expected to be victimised for helping to form the union .
5 I later realised I had missed a major opportunity for helping change the situation .
6 Mr Edwards , 50 , who was awarded the Queen 's Gallantry Medal for helping to save the life of World Champion Niki Lauda in 1976 , previously ran the Jaguar sponsorship programme for six years .
7 We thank all the VAST field , laboratory , computer centre , and administrative staff , especially Mr Martin Adjuik , Mr Azumah Amidini , Mr J Kwabena Badu , Ms Margaret Gyapong , Mr Eric Kasise , Mr Ogyebre Owusu-Agyei , and Mr David Pendlebury ; the population of Kassena-Nankana District and their leaders ; the Regional and District Administration and Health Services ; Dr Moses Adibo and Dr Sam Adjei , ( Ministry of Health of Ghana ) for support and encouragement ; Prof Patrick Vaughan and other colleagues at the LSHTM for support and advice ; Ms Nina Saroi for administrative and secretarial support in London ; Dr Sandra Saenz de Tejada and the WHO-ARI Programme for preliminary study of local concepts and terminology of illness ; Ms Gilly Maude for the randomisation and interim analysis ; Ms Sharon Huttly , Mr Ben Amenuvegbe , and the late Mr Steve Tulloch for helping to design the data management system ; Dr Hazel Inskip and Mr Jerry Wheeler for advice on data processing ; Ms Penny Fennell for help with the training of the computing and secretarial staff ; Ms Rebecca Abbott and Dr Suzanne Filteau ( Institute of Child Health , London ) for measuring serum retinol ; Dr Andy Hall for helping to code the cause of death questionnaires ; and the members of the data monitoring committee for reviewing the interim results .
8 Sussex members thank rally-teachers Jean Parmiter , Lucy Jackson and Chris Jones for helping to make the Sussex Rally the success it was .
9 Housing Associations are now responsible for helping fill the gap created by local government 's enforced withdrawal from property development .
10 Bill Clinton ran into trouble for blocking a busy runway while having a $100 haircut , and for appearing to divert the business of the White House travel office to a distant cousin .
11 When , on 24 May , in a speech before the House of Commons , Churchill acknowledged the Allies ' debt to Spain for keeping open the Straits of Gibraltar , Franco naturally interpreted this as endorsement of his regime and , therefore , another international victory .
12 in the face of uncertain demand at home , and no markets abroad there can be no justification for keeping open the 10% of pits which ( according to the Monopolies Commission Report of June 1983 ) were responsible for £300 million of the NCB deficit .
13 The ninth Earl , Henry Percy , was fined £30,000 and imprisoned for 15 years in the Tower of London for omitting to administer the Oath of Supremacy to Thomas Percy of Beverley .
14 ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA
15 He only turned professional 12 weeks ago after helping to beat the United States in the Walker Cup this summer .
16 He only turned professional 12 weeks ago after helping to beat the United States in the Walker Cup this summer .
17 Athelstan looked away , his gorge rising , after seeing Ranulf the rat-catcher sidle up beside one of these water-sellers and quietly piss into one of the buckets .
18 Miyazawa had been forced to resign as Finance Minister in December 1988 [ see p. 38558 ] after appearing to mislead the Diet over his involvement in a scandal which had involved numerous senior Japanese figures receiving cheap unlisted shares in Recruit-Cosmos , a real-estate company .
19 Examples include warning someone so as to render police investigation fruitless ( Hinchcliffe v Sheldon [ 1955 ] 1 WLR 1207 ) and drinking alcohol after driving to frustrate the breath test procedure ( Ingleton v Dibble [ 1972 ] 1 QB 480 ) .
20 Spain 's government , after swearing to maintain the peseta 's parity within the ERM , was forced to devalue .
21 After refusing to sanction the project , the UK is now providing funding .
22 In the increasingly murky circumstances surrounding the trial , two senior Conservative Party officials were subpoenaed on Feb. 19 to appear before a magistrate after refusing to disclose the sources of their allegation that Mekgwe had been kidnapped by the state intelligence service .
23 They left their Nissan Bluebird locked in a free car park after refusing to pay the 40p fee at one nearby .
24 Morgan , who alleged that her ex-husband Eric Foretich had sexually abused the child — an allegation not sustained by any court — had been imprisoned in 1987 for contempt of court after refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her daughter [ see also p. 37407 ] .
25 GERMANY yesterday spent billions of marks to save the French franc from speculators — a week after refusing to help the pound .
26 Inside , about 12 demonstrators , believed to be National Front members , were ejected by police after attempting to disrupt the meeting .
27 But they brought their arrangements forward after deciding to make the journey by ferry and coach .
28 In both the controls and the duodenal ulcer subjects the new lower plateau of gastric secretion was attained by the end of 11th collection period , about 20 minutes after beginning to smoke the cigarette ( Figs 1 and 2 ) .
29 Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors .
30 In a large study of isonazid associated hepatitis , 54% of patients presented after having received the drug for more than two months and several received the drug for more than 12 months before presentation .
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