Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , the Act gives a foreign investor full protection and ensures that dividends and its stake on winding up are transferable abroad without permit . |
| 2 | Hypothesising and checking out are important activities . |
| 3 | ‘ Claims by the health authority that waiting lists are going down are absolute nonsense , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 5 | Smaller , more discreet means of cleaning up are preferable when you are out for a walk . |
| 6 | Secondly , the companies that have already spent money on cleaning up are reluctant to see others let off the hook . |
| 7 | Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens . |
| 8 | Looking back and sorting out are essential if we are not to experience the pantomime dame 's discomfort . |
| 9 | His temperament , his drive for action and for moving about are moderate . |
| 10 | We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance . |
| 11 | While New Zealand , Australia and the West Indies are thought to be ready to back the TCCB 's bid , the chances of South Africa and Zimbabwe doing so are remote . |
| 12 | It is far from surprising that Mr Llambias stresses the importance of using an intermediary , but his reasons for doing so are cogent . |
| 13 | As yet their methods of doing so are ill-defined . |
| 14 | This is not to imply that they are exceeding their disciplinary mandate in examining topics which might be said to belong to some other discipline ; simply that their interests in doing so are different . |
| 15 | The reasons for doing so are twofold . |
| 16 | My reasons for doing so are twofold . |
| 17 | The groundcrew running away are special effects men running for their lives as the planned-for sequence went wrong but with cinematically-sensational results ! |
| 18 | As discussed in chapter 3 , open , competitive markets confer greater power on the government when the sophistication of the technology and the scale in advancing downstream are slight . |
| 19 | With a group or a class responding and interacting with each other , the teacher 's skill in interpreting and reacting immediately are all-important . |
| 20 | The bands playing tonight are secondary to the club itself , a gentle womb-like receptacle for hardened humanity , draped and gently lit , with baubles and bobbles dangling overhead and a vast array of music everywhere . |
| 21 | The films we are making now are comparable with what James Baldwin or Langston Hughes or Zora Thurston would do . |
| 22 | Its networking stuff is good , and cheap , but the network management software and E-mail technologies it 's working on are difficult and expensive . |
| 23 | But some of the people sleeping out are homeless themselves . |
| 24 | People retiring now are likely to have an occupational pension on top of their state pension and the average income of pensioners rose by 31% more than the rate of inflation between 1979 and 1987 . |
| 25 | His medical career is over , her prospects of working again are remote and their family is breaking up . |