Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a common strategy , for example , to think of analysing or decomposing a construct into a number of dimensions or variables . |
| 2 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 3 | You may find yourself writing detailed advertisements for an insurance company specific enough to find favour with their actuaries , or inventing a reason for people to buy a particular chocolate bar . |
| 4 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |
| 5 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |
| 6 | If luxuriating in a country house hotel or having fun on a farm or enjoying a weekend by the sea appeals to you , why not get hold of our Where to Stay accommodation guides . |
| 7 | One useful operation is zooming or magnifying a portion of the image so that it fills the screen . |
| 8 | By manipulating the glove , the user can interact with the virtual world , handling and manipulating objects or using a repertoire of gestures as commands . |
| 9 | That means that it 's practically impossible for a landowner to enforce restrictions unless you 're setting fire to his house or driving a JCB over his grouse moor . |
| 10 | But when the fire team are training or tackling a blaze within the perimeter he puts on a red fireman 's helmet as a member of their support system . |
| 11 | Whether it 's making a bed , building a skyscraper or landing a man on the moon , the lesson is the same . |
| 12 | It may help your child to hold on to memories of the past and to begin to think about changes in the future by painting pictures , making a tape recording or keeping a scrapbook of family events . |
| 13 | Over fifty small burghs were granted privileges for buying and selling specific goods , making and selling cloth , or acquiring a monopoly in other crafts . |
| 14 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 15 | So the , the two suggestions which we 'll put forward then is , is naming one of capital projects in , in this financial year , of the centenary , and possibly looking at er erm joining into a service or establishing a service with the Minster , and I 'll , I 'll look into that with the Provost as well , and the Association . |
| 16 | But tourists who want value for money should avoid buying a postcard in Bahrain or hiring a deckchair in Japan . |
| 17 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 18 | It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody . |
| 19 | Forget the idea of spreading material over a period of time or developing a number of different characters . ’ |
| 20 | The six , among 55 individuals banned by a High Court judge from trespassing on or causing a nuisance at the site , joined 500 others in a peaceful invasion of the construction site ; 27 were arrested . |
| 21 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |
| 22 | When the body is elastic , the strain converts kinetic into potential energy … like drawing the string of a longbow , or winding the spring of a clock , or charging an electrical condensor , or filling a balloon with hot air … and it looks to be alive . |
| 23 | Three main options for reform are considered : strengthening existing legislation ; introducing a prohibition system ; or operating a combination of the two . |
| 24 | Buzan claims that this pattern of note-taking conforms more closely to the pattern of our thinking and is , therefore , more useful for later recall , for preparing tutorial questions or revising a topic for an exam . |
| 25 | When we have a " blind spot " in any part of the swing we are groping in the dark or seeking a way through fog . |
| 26 | However , the overlap between designs and copyright has been eroded by section 51 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 which states that it is not an infringement of any copyright in a design document or model recording or embodying a design for anything other than an artistic work ( or a typeface ) , to make an article to the design or to copy an article made to the design . |
| 27 | Anwar had n't compromised in the slightest , not nibbling a biscuit or sipping a glass of water or smoking a single cigarette . |
| 28 | ‘ It wo n't do to be saying it backwards , or inside out , or to be missing a bit out that 's important , or adding a piece from another enchantment . |
| 29 | It is like supplying a circuit for electricity , or turning a liquid into a solid . |
| 30 | To adopt too critical or enquiring a position at this stage would be to run the risk of alienation . |