Example sentences of "or [v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | further alterations can take place at will , when you are finishing off , by adding piping or braiding to neaten neck edges and so on . |
| 2 | This they have managed by dint of an almost wilful maintaining of standards ( or refusing to accept reality , depending on your point of view ) . |
| 3 | It is an invaluable source of information to those attempting to prevent or seeking to abate odour problems . |
| 4 | With a planned hospital stay you will have been told to prepare for the operation as best as you can , perhaps by losing some weight , discontinuing any medication that you may be taking , or attempting to stop smoking . |
| 5 | In a straightforward case , no fees will be charged , but a provision is retained enabling the costs of effecting or attempting to effect service to be certified by a taxing master of the Supreme Court . |
| 6 | His anonymous volume of pen portraits , The Whispering Gallery by an Ex-Diplomat ( 1926 ) , led to his arrest on a charge of ‘ obtaining or attempting to obtain money under false pretences ’ , but under cross-examination his engaging candour appealed to the jury which found him not guilty . |
| 7 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 8 | At the time of the survey 70 per cent of 1984 research students were already in employment or waiting to start work ; |
| 9 | Similar proportions of university and polytechnic research students were in employment or waiting to start work . |
| 10 | Students who had been in receipt of a CASE award from SERC were rather more likely to be in employment or waiting to start work than those with regular studentships . |
| 11 | Over Rancho Cienega Park , a few dozen black people were playing basketball or waiting to buy food from a catering truck in the car park . |
| 12 | Or crumpling to puff pastry , and cobwebbed with deaths . |
| 13 | In the event of an insurance company which is a party to the Agreement withdrawing therefrom or ceasing to transact business , it will under the terms of the Agreement , notify individual bank branches/organisations branches from whom they hold notices of interest where that insurance cover has been terminated . |
| 14 | Dissonant notes resolve conventionally by falling or rising to form part of a new chord — the expected resolution ( e.g. dominant-tonic ) — as at in Example 34 , where the progression is D ( first inversion ) to G. The 7th ( C ) falls to the new 3rd ; the 9th ( E ) to the new 5th . |
| 15 | People holding mortgages will be protected : they will have the choice of moving to housing cost relief or continuing to receive mortgage interest tax relief . |
| 16 | People holding mortgages will have the choice of moving to housing cost relief or continuing to receive mortgage interest tax relief . |
| 17 | If , as children , we were given healing opportunities to grieve for a range of losses , whether it was falling and losing our precariously-achieved sense of balance , the death of a cat , the breaking of a doll or having to move house , we will have learned skills which will stand us in good stead later . |
| 18 | Mr. Whitaker relied upon the wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 , which says that a party is liable in respect of any damage , and so potentially in the position of being able to claim or having to make contribution , ‘ whatever the legal basis of his liability , whether tort , breach of contract , breach of trust or otherwise . ’ |
| 19 | And then that 's circulated to each division , and if Newark in the future is n't coming up anywhere near those standards or , or failing to improve month after month , then he 'll want to know why . |
| 20 | This requires that we give up foolish , immoral reading , or reading to acquire power , or reading that is self-indulgent . |
| 21 | He was immediately arrested and charged with tending or intending to pervert justice , which he denies . |
| 22 | In the summer , when he was not studying or working to earn money , young Cottle took a bus deep into the Vale of Glamorgan . |