Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of students satisfactorily completing or proceeding was highest for those studying vocation subjects ( mainly social work 81.6% ) and social studies ( 80.6% ) . |
| 2 | When conflict is resolved or coping is successful : |
| 3 | Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer . |
| 4 | This helps landlords who let without opting and later realise that opting is advisable . |
| 5 | While accepting that smacking is universal , he believes there are better methods of teaching children what is acceptable or unacceptable behaviour . |
| 6 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 7 | Beginning , Resourcing , Believing and Remembering are four stages in the ‘ States of Man ’ , the imaginative brief set for the 1991 Smirnoff UK Fashion Awards which take place in June as part of a week of college fashion shows . |
| 8 | The common ground between acting and caricaturing is obvious : both seek to convey personality in a way that prompts total recognition . |
| 9 | In this manner certain aspects , at least , of the process of permissive change are presented as having been positive and beneficial , in direct contrast to the view of the conservative-historians . |
| 10 | Factors such as the availability and characteristics of labour are seen as having been important at certain periods ‘ until the early 1970s ’ ( ibid. ) , but not as being fundamental . |
| 11 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 12 | Seeing and observing are two completely different things . |
| 13 | The Hotel Oberland is ideal for children : there is a playground , early meals and special menus can be arranged and baby-sitting is available . |
| 14 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 15 | In this case , even if one reinforces the claim by supposing that littering is illegal , the answer must be No . |
| 16 | Adding and subtracting are easier operations than multiplying and dividing . |
| 17 | Pulling and shying are two problems that we have all experienced with our horses at some time or another . |
| 18 | Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned . |
| 19 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |
| 20 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 21 | Breaking and entering 's one thing , making off with essentials is another matter altogether . ’ |
| 22 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 23 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 24 | Rechargeable battery driven cars have attracted publicity for many years , particularly since they are in regular use in businesses where a great deal of starting and stopping is necessary . |
| 25 | However , after a number of fatal accidents this year , some people are questioning whether grooming is such a great idea . |
| 26 | Although competitive sports are fine , the type of exercise we are talking about here should not involve competition , particularly if you are the type of person who usually feels that winning is important . |
| 27 | Barking , whining , snarling and whimpering are all forms of communication practised by Fido 's wild counterparts . |
| 28 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |
| 29 | One question which arises from the conclusion that bridging inferences are falsely identified as having been present in a passage concerns when such inferences are drawn . |
| 30 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |