Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Connery is n't playing with politics or toying with a party allegiance ; he opinion is founded on his life experience . |
2 | MAS 's role in advising on or assisting in the preparation of a client 's Information memorandum does not involve the issuance of a published report nor does it involve any association with the client 's Information memorandum beyond that set out in the terms of engagement , which should be appropriately limited . |
3 | The following procedures should be adopted when advising on or assisting in the preparation of an Information memorandum : |
4 | Before considering future development it would be advisable for those agencies already providing or assisting in the provision of day care to evaluate current service to determine its efficacy . |
5 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
6 | These included conciliatory actions such as showing concern for , comforting , helping or apologizing to the other . |
7 | In almost all cases this venom is used as a means of defence , and most people are stung after handling or stepping on a fish . |
8 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
9 | Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security . |
10 | Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore . |
11 | AN INDEPENDENT Scottish government would remove any form of privatisation or franchising from the rail network , the Scottish National Party declared yesterday . |
12 | Just as the ‘ Verbivore ’ phenomenon is caused through a flattening or levelling of the modulations of air waves , so the hierarchy of narrative levels is ‘ flattened ’ such that it becomes impossible in any given instance to determine whose account we are reading or whose mind we are supposedly ‘ inside ’ . |
13 | I do feel on the question of whether we are bringing people into the Harrogate area or catering for the needs of the residential population . |
14 | Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain . |
15 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
16 | Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) . |
17 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
18 | For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war . |
19 | Should be done by carefully dabbing or sponging with a wool — or silk-compatible cleaning solution for removing each specific substance ( wine , grease , coffee , etc. ) until as much as possible of the discolouring substance has been removed . |
20 | While his explanations do not seem clearly to separate older arguments about managers under- or over-investing from the impact of the business-cycle stage itself , it does seem clear that investment at the right time , i.e. early in the product life-cycle , does lead to increased ROI if management is able to establish its product in the market place and control costs . |
21 | For most of them all else , whether it be playing the organ or other instruments , or singing in the choir , is laid upon the foundation of what is learnt at school . |
22 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
23 | You do not have to climb too high to earn yourself splendid views over the country on the French side as well as a close-up sight of raptors perched or circling amongst the rocks . |
24 | When she 's not having a drink or tucking into a bag of crisps , the five month old badger cub can usually be found on the snooker table . |
25 | ‘ New ideas are being stifled by bureaucracy ’ , is the standard grouse over a beer or gazing into a test tube , along with more detailed criticisms of why the system does n't work . |
26 | Encourage the patient to do the types of activities recommended for him , and try to prevent him from sitting idly , or gazing at the television . |
27 | Up to that time , I was simply playing , or experimenting with the girls . |
28 | Cooking can be solved by eating out , raiding the chill cabinets or phoning for a pizza . |
29 | It was an appointment , as William Adam pointed out , which ‘ often follows at a great distance of time after the application & entring on the list ’ . |
30 | If you can manage it , you can keep on the go all day , hitting winners on the tennis court or flying the British flat at water polo ( let's hope we do better this year ? ) , or competing in the Irene Palace swimming Olympics . |