Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is strongly recommended that initiating members seek to negotiate fee arrangements with their exclusive sell situation clients that allow them to offer time-based remuneration to participating members with respect to the process of originating foreign purchaser suggestions and/or contacting foreign purchasers . |
| 2 | Wearing out our good clothes or wasting hot water to wash them ! ’ |
| 3 | At least 28 companies in the United Kingdom are developing or producing mains-signalling equipment . |
| 4 | According to the ideas outlined in Chapter 6 , the language processing system is made up of a number of information-processing modules , each responsible for a specific information-processing task ( such as recognising letters , for example , or producing spoken words ) . |
| 5 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 6 | When beginning a new topic , consult general texts before you attempt more specialised or demanding leading . |
| 7 | Nor is there any way of inputting or editing individual records . |
| 8 | Frequently the key to advance is in better ways of measuring or quantifying technical processes , or material advances which in themselves remove one of the constraints on development . |
| 9 | With accruals accounting , of course , postponing or bringing forward cash payments or receipts has no effect . |
| 10 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 11 | Can you raise income to cover costs ? eg by publications or allowing outside participants on courses . |
| 12 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 13 | Danny Kelly , writing in the NME , said experiencing Gedge 's songs was like ‘ overhearing one side of a telephone conversation or catching edited highlights of an argument . ’ |
| 14 | Trailing wires can so easily be cut when trimming back hedges or mowing long grass . |
| 15 | severe fright , as when hearing bad news or seeing horrifying sights |
| 16 | She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday . |
| 17 | In the Old World , chimpanzees can deal with unripe fruits , breaking open tannin-rich mature fruits or eating unripe ones . |
| 18 | This chapter covers a range of feeding problems found in young children , from not eating to excessively over-eating or eating non-edible items . |
| 19 | Basal or resting metabolic rate ( BMR ) is the speed your body burns calories at rest — in other words carrying out the job of staying alive : blood circulation , cell growth , digestion , thinking and so on . |
| 20 | It is ethyl acetate and isopropanol , not their systematic equivalents , that are still used in coating or laminating flexible webs for numerous industrial applications . |
| 21 | ‘ When you 're not spitting venom , or preaching amateur socialism , I 've even noticed you 're passably attractive , ’ he persisted teasingly . |
| 22 | ‘ although a corporation can not maintain an action for libel in respect of anything reflecting upon them personally , yet they can maintain an action for a libel reflecting on the management of their trade or business , and this without alleging or proving special damage . |
| 23 | If it was an ‘ either or ’ situation , I would go for a winch as it could be used for other jobs such as moving fallen trees or recovering other vehicles etc . |
| 24 | An exhibition of moving toys has just opened , with not a single battery , microchip or flashing light to be seen . |
| 25 | Science ( force ) and technology might be introduced by , for instance , getting pupils to design and build a machine to hurl stones to attack a hill-fort , or cooking Roman recipes ( effects of heat on different substances ) . |
| 26 | The African Institution dealt in business ‘ which Parliamentary men alone could manage ’ and this did little ‘ in the way of creating or organizing public feeling ’ by meetings or other means . |
| 27 | But no one else is likely to be bothered by this , since the product is intended for the industrial site or building large enough to have its own substation . |
| 28 | Plenty of clever , talented children seem to make slow progress at learning skills which they know their parents care about — like reading — while showing remarkable confidence and daring when it comes to the things their parents ignore , like swinging upside down , or building complicated models out of Lego . |
| 29 | The maker producing 5000 to 600,000 cars a year whose efforts have been the most impressive in attaining new or maintaining ongoing success |
| 30 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |