Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also evidence that Drew had visited several other tobacconists , purchasing pipes to send to friends . |
| 2 | This could have implications for engineers using changes in the sound of vibrating components to check for cracks and fractures . |
| 3 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 4 | Major advances in overcoming this difficulty have been made by using antibodies to distinguish between cells that seem very similar . |
| 5 | It also proposed granting $200 million to school districts already operating a voucher system allowing parents to choose between schools , and $30 million to those districts intending to establish such a system . |
| 6 | Cleveland Police are warning smokers to beware of offers of cheap cigarettes as they could be part of a hoard stolen from a storeroom in Morgan Drive , Guisborough . |
| 7 | The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . |
| 8 | Examination of the courses they attended suggested that these were not uniformly suitable for wives and that more courses aimed at helping wives to substitute for husbands in an emergency would be useful . |
| 9 | The reading and writing of whole numbers was looked at by asking pupils to write in numerals a number presented in words . |
| 10 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 11 | But the Japanese are beginning to find that conservation and commerce do not necessarily conflict : some coastal villages are starting to make money from taking tourists to look at whales . |
| 12 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |
| 13 | THE difficulty is finding apples to compare with apples . |
| 14 | Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years . |
| 15 | In 1864 , the Confederates had the idea of making torpedoes to look like lumps of coal . |
| 16 | The largest scale intervention was the VISTA programme , which consisted of women scientists and technologists visiting schools to talk to children about an aspect of their jobs already being covered in the school science syllabus . |
| 17 | OEMs will have to pay USL $60,000 to get the source code in-house and another $25,000 in sublicensing fees to ship to customers over and above paying OSF $150,000 for a DCE license . |