Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] and [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 2 | Rapid changes in the market place put a great strain on top management to ensure a company is keeping pace and is sufficiently aware of what is happening around the world . |
| 3 | Broad objectives are set out in enabling legislation and are subsequently amplified as a result of statutory instrument ; ministerial directions ; discussions of the House of Commons Select Committees ; Committees of Enquiry ; consumer councils ; and so on . |
| 4 | Through exposure to children on school practice , through attending lectures , writing essays and being reasonably responsible in college we would ( he said ) be ready , in two years , to enter teaching . |
| 5 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 6 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 7 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 8 | This difference in torque capability also applies to variable-reluctance stepping motors and is very significant in determining optimum velocity profiles ( Section 6.3 ) . |
| 9 | All dogs should be properly trained before they enter the show ring ; they should have attended handling classes and be well used to crowds and being handled on a lead . |
| 10 | Some Western reports claimed that Iraqi troops had been told that they were invading Israel and were deeply distressed when they found themselves in another Arab state . |
| 11 | The author stresses that the nature of assessment is a complex activity requiring skill and being more than the gathering of information which is but a first stage in the process . |
| 12 | Anomalous scattering data were included in the phasing calculation and were also used to determine the correct enantiomorph . |
| 13 | NT is weak in not supporting Sun 's NFS , supporting only multiple sequential users , not supporting XPG and being only minimally compliant with Posix 1003.1x . ’ |
| 14 | In both cases , supply is merely reflecting demand and is thus endogenously determined . |
| 15 | On any reasonable system of accounting , the second-hand and rare book departments are losing money and are heavily in debt to the other side of the business — ’ |
| 16 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 17 | The Manchester United star was diagnosed as having meningitis and is only now starting to battle back to full fitness after having the fright of his young life . |
| 18 | He had turned to fly around the eastern edge of the island 's encircling reefs and was now staring intently at the houses , searching for any signs of danger , but it seemed as though Murder Cay was deserted . |
| 19 | They are twice as likely as any other group to fantasize while they 're actually having sex and are also prone to give their imaginations free rein while in the bath , in the shower or on the phone . |
| 20 | Other girls and boys can be very unkind , as Doreen had found : " All the kids kept pointing fingers , talking behind my back , starting rumours and were generally very bitchy . " |
| 21 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 22 | The ancient Greeks certainly aged their trees by counting rings and were probably not the first to do so . |
| 23 | Plastic bags are just reaching China and are still too precious to be readily disposable . |
| 24 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 25 | They were fishing people and were obviously hard at work fashioning a new canoe . |
| 26 | Abuse and neglect are also commonly seen in children of mothers with learning disabilities and are particularly common if the fathers also suffer from learning disabilities or if the children themselves are of normal IQ . |
| 27 | ( iii ) An easement , right or privilege affecting land and being merely an equitable interest ( an " equitable easement " ) . |
| 28 | My Grandfather accompanied me to all contests and modelling assignments and was well known on the Beauty Queen circuit as ‘ Pop ’ . |
| 29 | Former Sunderland striker Billy Hughes , who played in the 1973 Cup winning team and is now steward at Stressholme Golf Club , Darlington , said : ‘ It brought all the memories flooding back . |
| 30 | The room was full of young men talking politics and being affably rude to each other . |