Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The library , with its vague connection with academic work , can hold little attraction for a student struggling to adjust to university life ’ . |
| 2 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 3 | Knowledge of the law relating to control of water pollution , beyond a broad conception of the pollution offences , however , is regarded as unimportant and is claimed by only a small minority of field men , because the job is done ‘ by experience ’ and the application of rules-of-thumb — not ‘ by the book ’ . |
| 4 | An intensive conditioner will work much better if you cover hair with a polythene bag after applying to seal in body heat . |
| 5 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 6 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 7 | This consequence of existing policy is particularly important in periods of high merger activity when there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity . |
| 8 | It was a glimpse of the old Connors , fighting and refusing to walk down memory lane . |
| 9 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 10 | Social workers looking to move into care management jobs will find recruitment opportunities at the Community Care Job Forum and Careers Convention in Manchester on 19 and 20 May . |
| 11 | Managers have not , on the whole , been predisposed to numerically oriented analysis , clinicians have not pushed for cost or outcome data preferring to focus upon patient care processes and cash inputs have been on the basis of fairly crude recurring allocations . |
| 12 | And then we come to race nine , the third leg of our yankee tonight , Radio Oxford 's yankee , that 's in the nine thirty two erm here I 'm going to go for Kerry Limb Gold in trap six erm this one does like the underfoot conditions to be soft , so he 's got it tonight — Kerry Limb Gold then as the third leg of the yankee , nine thirty two . |
| 13 | I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres . |
| 14 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 15 | The portfolio will be further expanded in the future as extra Unix variants are supported ; no names yet , except to say that the company is not rushing to implement under IBM Corp 's AIX : most customers who are interested in a Unix version are looking for prime open system vendors , says UK marketing manager David Miller , adding that AIX is not usually towards the top of the list . |
| 16 | The portfolio will be further expanded in the future as extra Unix variants are supported ; no names yet , except to say that the company is not rushing to implement under IBM Corp 's AIX : most customers who are interested in a Unix version are looking for prime open system vendors , says UK marketing manager David Miller , adding that AIX is not usually towards the top of the list . |
| 17 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 18 | I 'm not going to write about body language in detail because there are already several books on the subject ( see page 120 ) . |
| 19 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 20 | He was going to feed on honey dew and drink the milk of Paradise . |
| 21 | A spokesman said : ‘ We are still waiting to hear from Durham County Council and other councils . |
| 22 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 23 | so I 'm going to play for Manchester comma |
| 24 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 25 | All the time I was attempting to identify by ear bird noises in the spinney : a jay screeched raucously ; ‘ My toe hurts Betty , ’ crooned a wood pigeon ; a tiny wren ticked its loud emphatic alarm notes ; and over and over a willow warbler trilled . |
| 26 | For many people attempting to escape from state persecution , it is impossible to apply for a passport to the very authorities who are inflicting the persecution . |
| 27 | Well , what are you going to do with Riley House , I mean you have n't got nothing yet . |
| 28 | He made no mention today of a plan about what the Government are going to do about carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 29 | erm And if we are going to compete in world sport then erm and if we have to apply like Manchester , who 's applying for the Olympic Games , we have to have the appropriate stadia . |
| 30 | Subsequently it was suggested ( Hare , 1973 ) that this trend in climatology had been emphasized by three other contributions identified as the micrometeorological method whereby a branch of experimental physics has used experimental techniques to provide physical insights into the nature of the earth 's surface and planetary boundary layers ; the microclimatological method where the techniques of micrometeorological measurement and boundary layer theory together with the related parts of soil physics and plant physiology are applied to exchange and transformation processes over natural surfaces , leading to study of energy transformation at the land surface , water movement upwards and downwards through the soil , and to how carbon dioxide is assimilated during photosynthesis and released during respiration ; and the hydrological method whereby energy exchange during the hydrological cycle was quantified . |