Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] [noun pl] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found that delivering babies was exciting and a bit scary , but I noticed that the environment was not comfortable for women . |
| 2 | For example , the analysis indicated that information about establishing and maintaining accounts was necessary in support of the finance function . |
| 3 | Constructing repairing and maintaining footpaths is all in day 's work for pathcraft manager Keith Wilson |
| 4 | This means that the very substantial facilities of RAE for testing and examining materials are available whenever AIB need them . |
| 5 | Deciding whether testing programmes are economic in their use of resources is a more difficult problem . |
| 6 | Irrespective of facilities , however , Gidley ( 1987 ) discovered that handwashing techniques were lamentable . |
| 7 | Their large , fat tails contain food reserves , utilised when feeding conditions are poor . |
| 8 | And I definitely think that taking drugs is disgusting . |
| 9 | Strenuous efforts have been made to program such recognition abilities into microcomputers and several packages for manipulating and comparing spectra are available . |
| 10 | The range of chemicals that have been identified as causing problems is enormous — Table 3 shows a representative selection . |
| 11 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |