Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 2 | The road from Mandalay to Wigan Pier is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear … |
| 3 | One of the reasons for arranging it is to give you the chance to be responsible for your own learning while you are on the placement . |
| 4 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |
| 5 | Getting children talking about texts in groups after reading them is one way of giving them this power with texts . |
| 6 | She then turned her attention to the food that needed to be cooked , placing it within easy reach of the barbecue , and making sure the necessary utensils for handling it were nearby . |
| 7 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 8 | They are good little theoretical exercises because they are easily described and algorithms for solving them are easily programmed , but they have a lot of symmetry , which is most uncommon in real life . |
| 9 | EDWARD and Joyce Widdup , hailed nationally as principled fighters against the onward march of brick and cement , have lost their battle — four months after saying they were willing to sacrifice £2 million if they could continue to live in their green oasis on the outskirts of Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 10 | THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 11 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 12 | A task has high structure when the goal and the methods of achieving it are well understood and agreed upon — see Chapter 10 , Objective Setting . |
| 13 | I would like to suggest that a rigid model of permanent placement and of methods of achieving it is no longer appropriate , given the much wider range of needs of children . |
| 14 | Animal viruses became easier to study when methods of growing them were devised . |
| 15 | Of those seven aspects of planning it is likely that all members of staff will have been previously involved in at least three . |
| 16 | I also duped a few stupid coventry fans into thinking I was a new signing as i walked out of the officials entrance after the match … did about 8 or 9 autographs : - ) ) ) |
| 17 | The mother was prompted when to let go and once Mary made a two-second break in her crying after several minutes of screaming she was told she could get up . |
| 18 | ESSAY 7 — ; Did Tsarism show any real signs of re-establishing it 's grip on Russia in the period after 1905 . |
| 19 | SHANNEN DOHERTY shows worrying signs of thinking she 's an ostrich . |
| 20 | ‘ It turned out to be extremely good for me because within twenty-four hours of leaving I was asked to go to Hollywood and prepare Scrooge for Paramount Pictures . |
| 21 | However , the motives for building them are , in most cases , very much less so . |
| 22 | In Manhattan a fellow dashes about claiming he is the grandson of Balenciaga . |
| 23 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 24 | Soil tests to discover the pH are easily done , and the kits for doing them are provided with instructions by several garden product companies , and stocked at garden shops . |
| 25 | Santiago itself is ten kilometres from the airport , and after two solid days of flying it was great to be cycling . |
| 26 | In four days of fighting it was reported that more than 100 people were killed . |
| 27 | But after 10 years of bookselling he is keen to retire . |
| 28 | During the formative years of broadcasting it was cinema which produced the predominant images of lesbians and gay men . |
| 29 | ‘ I forged my passport fooling Croat officials into believing she was my daughter . |
| 30 | In the days before floodlighting it was obvious that a game starting at five o'clock could not possibly run its full course , but the referee went ahead , fearing trouble from a crowd that had waited over two hours . |