Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’ |
| 2 | When applying in advance you may indicate a start date ( eg birthday ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Directly you see what 's happening on TV you can do what you like . |
| 4 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 5 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 6 | Returning to academia he can recall the spatial remove as being ‘ out there in the field ’ ; so that much of the current anthropology at home may still only be practising in its own backyard , pursuing an exploration of ‘ exotic cultures at home ’ rather than looking into its own front room ( Cheater 1987 : 166 ) . |
| 7 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 8 | When looking for prey they will hover up to 300ft above the ground , using their tail and wings to stay in position . |
| 9 | You will also be looking for content you could exploit in the language classroom . |
| 10 | ‘ For the hundreds of thousands of Scottish families living in poverty it will mean fuel bills they can not afford , or the prospect of disconnection . |
| 11 | If all goes according to plan he will hold the public sector borrowing requirement to £35 billion in the current year , rising to £50 billion in 1993-94 , but the proportion of gross domestic product should stabilise at no more than 8 per cent , and fall slowly back to around 4 per cent by 1997 — still an alarmingly large figure in the eyes of some City analysts . |
| 12 | If all goes according to plan you should find further details of the study and proposed dates for a first meeting enclosed with this letter . |
| 13 | According to size they can accommodate two or more persons . |
| 14 | According to folklore you can protect yourself from the fairies by carrying iron , steel or oatmeal . |
| 15 | Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions . |
| 16 | That 's the impression I 've been under but according to form you can do what you bloody want . |
| 17 | If Bill 's leg went according to form he should be back in town for his first follow-up clinic when I started my second all-day shift with its row of free evenings . |
| 18 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
| 19 | They 'll want to spend time looking at equipment they ca n't afford or can only just run to and will be at some stage of agonising over whether to buy or not . |
| 20 | Again , looking at wastage we can produce reports by area for all of the company by broad occupational category . |
| 21 | If people are made aware of the risks and volunteer , then that 's seems to be their own free choice , and if that is what they wish to do , then that it seen to be a perfectly fair about going of course it would be completely immoral to test a drug on somebody who was n't aware of what was going on . |
| 22 | Going on water they must stage a . |
| 23 | You need n't bother going to sleep you can just carry the tray for us . |
| 24 | ‘ It is possible that by going to Court we shall get a larger sum . ’ |
| 25 | Felt like not going to school I can tell you . |
| 26 | I mean erm going to school I used to dream about it and then it came true , you know , I mean . |
| 27 | ‘ Going by form she 'll have had someone in there with her . ’ |
| 28 | As it is getting towards summer they would like the work done as soon as possible and subject to a satisfactory estimate I can authorise you to carry out the work . |
| 29 | The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them . |
| 30 | Deciding she 'd had enough of her office for that week , she filled her briefcase to bulging with work she could do at home , and closed her office door at five sharp . |