Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is distinct from non-data-ink , which can be erased without loss of information : gridlines and hatching are good examples . |
| 4 | Manualists , by contrast , believe that signing and fingerspelling are essential tools in the learning process and that lipreading and speech are , in any case , beyond the capacity of the majority of deaf and dumb children . |
| 5 | Weaving , crib-biting , biting ( general vice ) and kicking are typical vices . |
| 6 | Adding and subtracting are easier operations than multiplying and dividing . |
| 7 | ( c ) Appropriation and obtaining are similar concepts . |
| 8 | Barking , whining , snarling and whimpering are all forms of communication practised by Fido 's wild counterparts . |
| 9 | Pulling and shying are two problems that we have all experienced with our horses at some time or another . |
| 10 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |