Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 2 | Never sit about waiting for the result of one interview . |
| 3 | The market return minus the risk-free return is the risk premium that investors expect for investing in the market portfolio . |
| 4 | The terms of reference must be defined in advance , and appear in writing in the opening statement . |
| 5 | The porpoises delight in riding on the bow waves of motor boats , which has frequently proved to be a fatal mistake . |
| 6 | Farmers still have the problem of overcoming the stigma which all too often young people attach to working on the land . |
| 7 | Prune by cutting off the old flowered growth immediately after flowering , when it will produce good new shoots . |
| 8 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 9 | This scheme is a great success as our trainees benefit from learning in a real working environment . |
| 10 | Even these unpretentious , non-vintage champagnes benefit from keeping for a time ; the great champagnes repay keeping for years and years . |
| 11 | Cough from tickling in the larynx ; dry and teasing , wants fresh air . |
| 12 | The Hammersmith & Fulham Group recommends that the change in Amnesty 's Mandate , extending the right of conscientious objection to include members of the armed forces who object to serving in a particular war , ‘ be rescinded ’ . |
| 13 | Potential recruits often object to joining on the grounds that they are uninterested in politics . |
| 14 | Livingstone and Wilkie conclude by arguing for the decentralisation of control and the democratisation of work processes . |
| 15 | I hope by participating in the Earthwatch expedition I would have the chance of studying alternative sources of fuel for the benefit of local communities which would help in checking the ecological disturbance . |
| 16 | Beware of resorting to a visual aid because it seems to look impressive . |
| 17 | No , I 'm just a Jock — Guardsman Willoughby — and a Jock I look like staying till the end of the war . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed , although their tactics were laudable , how many times did the England backline movement really look like succeeding in the Final ? |
| 19 | The actions responsible for this misfortune vary from dancing on the Sabbath , dancing through the night until sunrise , refusing to accept Christianity , and peering uninvited at festivities . |
| 20 | Not all the teachers look on tutoring as an unmixed blessing . |
| 21 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |
| 22 | When researchers look at schooling from the point of view of girls , it is perhaps not surprising that writers as diverse as Alison Kelly and Valerie Walkerdine can come up with very similar findings . |
| 23 | Very few aestheticians , however , look at acting as a phenomenon — Edward Bullough ( 1912 ) , in his work on Psychical Distancing , is perhaps the notable exception . |
| 24 | Finally , draught-proof the point where the sashes meet by pinning on a length of plastic or metal spring strip excluder to cover the gap . |
| 25 | We begin by looking at the negative emotions . |
| 26 | I begin by joining in the congratulations paid by hon. Members of all parties to the hon. Member for Birkenhead ( Mr. Field ) on the production of an excellent report , and to my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield ( Mr. Winterton ) who chaired the Select Committee on Health , which was also involved . |
| 27 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 28 | Under the heading of political philosophy , feminist philosophers begin by arguing with the tradition , trying to reconcile feminist insights with already existing systems of thought such as liberalism or Marxism , and go on to attempt to define a new perspective in philosophy . |
| 29 | We then begin by putting on the ‘ bottles ’ ( small , tightly tied bundles , somewhat resembling a bottle in shape ) to form a new eave line . |
| 30 | More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner . |