Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 2 | Only the hi-tech gym equipment gives you that information , so even when your simply using bar-bells you will still be able to keep track of energy being used . |
| 3 | In addition , they decide the quantity of the initial pressing of their artists ' recordings ( for a new artist 's first single this would be around 5,000 ) ; they liaise with the manufacturing plant to ensure further stock is available if it is needed ; and they avoid producing stock which would probably never be sold . |
| 4 | As well as aligning objects you can also distribute them ! |
| 5 | In a take-off or landing accident he will obviously make early contact with local air traffic control and obtain a copy of the flight plan . |
| 6 | This must mean that subsidence has been steady , for any halts in subsidence should have resulted in the formation of fringing reefs which would later have been converted to barrier reefs by renewed subsidence . |
| 7 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 8 | English teachers need to be ready to give careful introductions and support when using texts which might otherwise cause offence to some groups ; for example , if a character with racist attitudes is portrayed , even though the author may not be supporting such attitudes . |
| 9 | This footprint contains three potential overlapping actinomycin binding sites which must therefore be characterised by different dissociation parameters . |
| 10 | We settled down to nine channels of T.V. and a tour of the room-service menu , ordering things we 'd only read about — pastrami on rye ; blue-jack cheese ; sourdough bread and grits and black-eyed beans . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 12 | For people who must be detained for the protection of the public because of the horrific nature of their crimes , we should be designing units which will genuinely help them to change to whatever extent is possible . |
| 13 | This can be a very useful way of permitting development which would otherwise be undesirable . |
| 14 | I practise perfecting things I can almost already play . |
| 15 | By interviewing people we can obviously obtain a great deal of information in a relatively short time . |
| 16 | The purpose of the Act is to ‘ establish a framework for the provision of advice , assistance and representation which is publicly funded with a view to helping persons who might otherwise be unable to obtain advice , assistance or representation on account of their means ’ . |
| 17 | In deciding whether police services are ‘ special ’ the court will take into account : ( 1 ) whether the officers are required to attend on private premises or in a public place ; ( 2 ) whether violence has already occurred or is imminent — if so , the services can not be ‘ special ’ ; ( 3 ) the nature of the event — public events like elections lie at one end of the spectrum , private events like weddings at the other , and events like football matches somewhere in the middle ; ( 4 ) whether protection can be provided without using officers who would otherwise be on other duties or off duty . |
| 18 | Although the trigger for this phenomenon is unknown , hypobiosis occurs at the start of a prolonged dry season and permits the parasite to survive in the host as arrested L4 instead of maturing and producing eggs which would inevitably fail to develop on the arid pasture . |
| 19 | If you 've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight has n't changed . |
| 20 | During the next three years the industry has committed £1 billion to cleaning up its discharges and recycling wastes which would otherwise be dumped . |
| 21 | I spend my life in supermarkets — buying food I 'll probably never eat , but buy just in case I might want to eat it . |
| 22 | Database development and a news archiving feature which may well appear as a separate product are also in the pipeline . |
| 23 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 24 | Like — if I was wearing jeans it would only be 501s and that kind of thing . |
| 25 | They carefully avoided the black peasant producing regions which would probably have been more beneficial to the Kenyan economy . |
| 26 | Dr Eric Williams ' famous thesis linking the rise of capitalism to the slave trade probably overstated the extent to which capital derived from the infamous traffic fed into the growing industrial sector of the expanding English economy , but in pointing out that abolition came only when the slave trade was rapidly losing importance he can hardly be far from the truth . |
| 27 | I was going places , thinking and doing things I would never dream of in city civvies . |
| 28 | He was doing things I 'd never even read about . |
| 29 | Classify at present as an error indicating difficulties one might normally expect with a younger child , or particularly weak spellers of this age . |
| 30 | And this is unlikely to change — after all if the sales person knew enough to do a good job of giving advice they could easily start a new career as a consultant ! |