Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 2 | The Government are pursuing policies that are directly linked to the rise in crime . |
| 3 | Scientists examining alternative approaches are attracted to the idea of using molecules that are chemicals designed to assemble themselves into a film . |
| 4 | Some may be used to develop skills of inference , seeing meanings that are not explicitly stated . |
| 5 | David Sutherland , much to his annoyance , had been left out of raiding activities and was put in charge of training the SBS contingent for water-borne operations in the Mediterranean . |
| 6 | It is also a good way of using yarns that are expensive . |
| 7 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 8 | This definition of the sum invested has the advantage of producing returns that are roughly similar in size and dispersion to the returns on the underlying shares . |
| 9 | But it is acknowledged in security circles that whoever fired the shots that killed the two soldiers and constables Alan Corbett in Belcoo , Fermanagh , and Jonathan Reid in Crossmaglen last month , has received army training in handling firearms and is a cool operator . |
| 10 | Furthermore , Jesus was probably touching dishes and using utensils that were considered ‘ unclean ’ . |
| 11 | It is a sad fact of life that very few writers are capable of producing books that are both written from a position of commitment and are successful pieces of writing . |
| 12 | Hundreds of morons ( supporters of both sides ) always did their best to spoil the day by singing songs that were either anti-Papal or pro-King William of Orange . |
| 13 | The editor of the Advertiser , Graham Isdale , said he was not surprised by the decision and he accused the council 's leaders of wasting poll tax payers ' money by pursuing action that was doomed to fail . |
| 14 | Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field . |
| 15 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 16 | He smiled , revealing teeth that were straight and white . |
| 17 | In his despair , Maisie came to him now , that familiar loving face with its bright violet eyes and a profusion of greying hair that was never in place . |
| 18 | In longterm studies over several years he shows that with a wheat free diet these children are gaining weight and are reaching anormal growth pattern by comparison with age matched controls . |
| 19 | They point out that well known communication graphic techniques such as pie charts often do a good job of summarising data but are of little use as exploratory tools since they reveal little about their structure . |
| 20 | The refurbished unit enjoyed a 26 per cent increase in seating capacity and was finished in a two-tone brown livery embellished with an orange band at waist level . |
| 21 | For positive excitation of the phase winding transistors and are turned on , so that the current path is from the supply , through transistor to the phase winding and forcing resistance , then through transistor back to the supply . |
| 22 | The same problem applies to the new proposals , which are based on compensating flocks that are far lower than the Scottish average . |
| 23 | Previously , speeding traffic along the main road often used the traffic islands painted on the road for overtaking purposes and was able to turn at speed into Buxtehude at this generously proportioned junction ( Figure 6.8 ) . |
| 24 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 25 | They 're checking places that are empty , or seem to be empty . |
| 26 | The CMOS TFP is designed to deliver Cray Research Inc Y-MP-class performance for floating-point scientific and multiprocessing applications and is being designed by MIPS ' fiance Silicon Graphics Inc along with Toshiba Corp . |
| 27 | In addition , as is now the experience of populations in a number of the economically more advanced countries , when certain changes in society conflict with other conditions , there may be compensating changes that are not necessarily desirable . |
| 28 | Psychiatry can so easily be a technique of brainwashing , of inducing behaviour that is adjusted , by ( preferably ) non-injurious torture … . |
| 29 | They were thrilled when they suddenly realized that not only had Tom Mix and Gloria Swanson been in the audience on opening night but were in the same room with them at the party afterwards . |
| 30 | I thought they 're trading people that 's coming up as well |