Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rodney Graham , a fellow consultant at Guy 's , said Professor Keen had started legal action after discovering that Guy 's staff were being diverted to work on implementing the NHS proposals . |
| 2 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 3 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 4 | Information is needed too about the part the patient is expected to play in preventing the spread of infection . |
| 5 | These can be designed to deal with taking the initial instructions , recording the requirements of the client and recording matters as the case progresses . |
| 6 | A large vertical shaft plunges suddenly and without prior warning at the bottom of a steep-sided and unfenced crater ; a slip could not be checked and a falling body would be swallowed by the black gulf and not come to rest until hitting the boulder floor 340 feet below . |
| 7 | Shared surfaces are thus tiny islands in a sea of ‘ normal ’ driver behaviour , which is thus expected to change on entering the shared space , not on entering the residential area as a whole . |
| 8 | Benefit can not be claimed to assist with paying the remaining 20% . |
| 9 | How far is the Court prepared to go in reducing the employee 's freedom in order to ensure that the worker is not overborne ? |
| 10 | It is said to work by blocking the metering pulses that charge calls to the customer 's account . |
| 11 | As my title suggests , one way forward can be seen to lie in developing the consultancy role of those in a position to help teachers meet their pupils ' special needs . |
| 12 | Ta Mok , one of Pol Pot 's lieutenants who was known as " the butcher " during Khmer Rouge rule in 1975-78 , has warned that anyone found contravening environmental directives in the area under his jurisdiction will be sentenced to labour on building the reserve fence . |
| 13 | That 's roughly about the same hours as the government 's just decided to spend on sending the Parent 's Charter to every household in Britain , I think that 's gon na cost over two million as well . |
| 14 | On Oct. 5 the Standing Committee of the Supreme People 's Assembly approved North Korea 's first law on foreign investment , in a move which was intended to help in reviving the stagnating economy . |
| 15 | Teresa Gisbert produces evidence to show that Diego Quispe Tito 's series of paintings of the zodiac for the Cathedral of Cuzco was commissioned in order to counteract the traditional indigenous worship of the stars and were intended to aid in Christianising the Indians of the Andes . |
| 16 | So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’ |
| 17 | I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters ' Club give for raffle prizes . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got to concentrate on getting the best out of the players available . |
| 19 | She said that doctors had offered to participate in developing the programme but had been told they were not needed . |
| 20 | ‘ It is frustrating but we have got to look at developing the market in a different way , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Tainsh ( 1985 ) has developed a technique in which a computer-based simulation of a generic information handling task is used to assist in analysing the behaviour of an operator or a team of operators . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Stockton and Middlesbrough Councils have both agreed to spend on opposing the plans . |
| 23 | The radical Unitarian , Thomas Cooper , proclaimed opposition to the slave trade as a particular duty of Englishmen ‘ who claim Freedom as our birth-right … we are in honour bound to assist in exterminating the most diabolical exertion of political tyranny which the annals of oppression can exhibit ’ . |
| 24 | Yes its Orange Walk season , when we are invited to rejoice in celebrating the victory of King William of Orange ( or Good King Billy as he is known in some circles ) at the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 25 | Abscesses can be hastened to burst by fermenting the swollen painful area with hot compresses . |
| 26 | These in turn have raised difficulties of evidence and proof in law which legislatures have attempted to circumvent by rejecting the traditional prerequisites of some degree of mental intent on the part of the deviant actor — the concept of mens rea — in favour of the ostensibly more easily managed notion of strict liability , permitting ( in theory ) legal enforceability of a prohibition without regard to the blameworthiness of the actor ( Harvard Law Review , 1979 ; Jacobs , 1971 ; Paulus , 1974 ) . |
| 27 | A select band of end users — not employees of the company — will be asked to participate in testing the product in the real world , on their hardware , which may not be ‘ bog standard ’ . |
| 28 | Was n't that why she had asked to renegotiate after signing the contract ? |
| 29 | If the receptionist thinks a situation is developing where violence could occur , a senior member of staff should be asked to assist in resolving the cause . |
| 30 | And Brooker expects 1993 to be another good year as Kode has continued to invest in improving the quality of its products — during the year , the board agreed to buy new state-of-the-art plating lines . |