Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't think adding up or taking away was this hard did you ? |
| 2 | It should not be felt that selling overseas is such a specialist and complex area that the uninitiated must for ever be excluded , or that membership can only be purchased at the expense of having very costly specialist services . |
| 3 | There was dependable French cuisine , and eating well was cheap for those on western pay . |
| 4 | The shops all stock familiar goods , the markets are full of good-quality produce and eating out is cheap and enjoyable . |
| 5 | With a group or a class responding and interacting with each other , the teacher 's skill in interpreting and reacting immediately are all-important . |
| 6 | Processes of hiving-off , privatization and contracting out are all based on the belief that ‘ public ’ services will be provided more efficiently if those providing them have control of their own budgets and compete for contracts . |
| 7 | In general the gap between lip-reading with fingerspelling , and lip-reading alone is greatest for comprehension of larger units such as sentences , and least for single words . |
| 8 | Hypothesising and checking out are important activities . |
| 9 | But if winding up is foreseeable when shares are issued , the limitation of rights has a commercial effect . |
| 10 | Sir Mark on his black warhorse , his dark red hair oiled and combed ; before him went his squire carrying a banner with the Burghgesh arms , and marching behind were six archers with steel caps , quilted jerkins , long bows and quivers full of goose-quilled arrows . |
| 11 | Reducing balance — asset usage and wearing out is greater in earlier than later years . |
| 12 | Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens . |
| 13 | Looking back and sorting out are essential if we are not to experience the pantomime dame 's discomfort . |
| 14 | Keeping your fingers crossed and plunging on is one way of dealing with tricky situations which may gain a reputation for the school that it has firm and strong management but it can have costs in the loss of a number of unhappy families . |
| 15 | And AC Milan is expected to beat Marseilles on May 26th in the final of the European Cup , having won all the qualifying matches and having already been European champion twice in the past four years ( see table for its total performance over recent years ) . |
| 16 | Accuracy in measuring and cutting out is essential . |
| 17 | Dawes believes that getting users ' networks up and running properly is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry . |
| 18 | Section 50A states that copyright is not infringed by a lawful user making an additional copy of a computer program for back-up purposes if doing so is necessary to the lawful use . |
| 19 | Eating and drinking out is easy as the street is full of cafés and bars . |
| 20 | She smiled , over here is her remarks and hoping all was well . |
| 21 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 22 | The sewing 's fine as my machine 's controlled by foot but cutting out is hard . |
| 23 | In contrast , a categorical imperative bids me , as a rational being , do such and such , whatever my desires may happen to be , because doing so is essential to living up to my status as a rational being . |
| 24 | They were shocking , though explaining why is difficult — just boring flats with debris lying around . |
| 25 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 26 | Face reality , even when doing so is painful . |
| 27 | So far , however , as working underground is concerned , it seems safe to generalise that adult female labour was never widespread and was in decline in the later eighteenth century . |