Example sentences of "[v-ing] [is] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 2 | ‘ Racing 's in a desperate state ’ |
| 3 | She argues that the main task is that of deciding what to do , and that the best way of deciding is through a genuinely democratic epistemology . |
| 4 | Car-sharing has received a recent boost since the petrol price increases ; owners are able to share petrol costs without endangering their insurance policies as long as sharing is on a non-profit basis . |
| 5 | I decide to leave it ; perhaps the safest way of retrieving it without snagging is with a fish on the end . |
| 6 | This is interpreted as : maximum aperture 2.8 , focal length 32mm and the range of focusing is from a minimum of 0.6 metre to infinity . |
| 7 | What is most true and touching is in a dying fall , said hardly at all , or in a low , quick way or turning aside . |
| 8 | If the choice of bearing is between a sixteen double O four and a six double O four , it may hang , for us it may hang on whether , er , whether we can localize the sixteen double O four |
| 9 | ‘ Killing is like a drug it gets to be a way of life . |