Example sentences of "[verb] are [adj] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Resting , sleeping and generally vegetating are obvious ways of unwinding .
2 Included are some suggestions for making the best use of the opportunities and for overcoming the problems .
3 All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur .
4 The language of kinship and the behaviours which the use of such language provokes are social devices for giving expression to networks of relationship .
5 The detergent feeds often fitted are expensive ways of using chemicals .
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