Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Various techniques will be discussed here , and the main solutions that have been obtained using them will be described in the next chapter .
2 There are many different variations of lifted weaving which can be used for decorating garments .
3 Andrew and Waddy grasp on to some of these in the ending lick , which is actually a standard blues ending which can be adapted to many tunes , particularly those of the 12-bar variety .
4 This final section will attempt to use the material reviewed to reconcile these conclusions and provide predictions about the relationships between subjective risk and memory for driving which will be explored in the experimental chapters .
5 You may have recollections of taking a long time to achieve competence in one particular skill , and wonder whether on returning you will be given adequate time to practise and revise .
6 Silently praying she would be forgiven for the lie , she gave a small shrug .
7 They hang a traditional village skirt outside the arrack shop , saying that any man patronising it will be made to wear the skirt .
8 Generally this means explaining what must be done : ‘ You can have the video back on when you have picked up your toys ’ .
9 Enthusiasm for such ideas has even now not completely evaporated ; voices advocating them can be found through the 1970s and 1980s and , in only marginally more sophisticated forms , at the present time :
10 You keep pretending something can be done .
11 I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth .
12 It has no full time consultants and now the G Ps are warning they may be forced to give up the hospital work because the Department of Health is planning to put them all on new contracts from next year .
13 In passing it may be observed that journeymen and apprentices were seldom specified , although this must have been the status of many of the servants that were listed .
14 [ In passing it must be mentioned that one of those raw materials , hydrocyanic acid , is also used for another very important material in the portfolio of the Acrylics Business , sodium cyanide , the main use of which is in gold extraction processes .
15 So why do n't we reply to the people who put this suggestion that in reprinting it 'll be taken into account but there are some reasons that we ca n't follow it completely and that , two chief of which are different , where colour is used for coding and erm , secondly what Richard has just said .
16 At that time , he was still a Party member , believing it could be reformed from within .
17 I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ .
18 Significantly ( in view of the stronger actions of the subsequent Conservative government ) public authorities were asked ‘ to furnish schedules of void sites within the partnership authorities with a view to establishing what could be done to accelerate the development or redevelopment of non-operational sites ’ .
19 Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility .
20 As a single-season display they are beautiful and the possibility of them establishing themselves should be seen as a bonus .
21 Depending on your employment situation and the length of time you have had away from nursing you may be asked to provide a character or employer 's reference .
22 Mrs Thatcher , a recent convert to environmental conservation , clearly held the opinion that environmental problems are not only soluble but that solving them can be shown to be cost-effective :
23 As usual , however , there are problems , and help in solving them can be had by making a few simple measurements .
24 He said some of the cases should be dealt with soon so that the principles for deciding who should be granted asylum ‘ can emerge and be tested on appeal ’ .
25 In fact , one might say that the article , with its defence of National Front thinking and its attack on liberalism , is reinforcing the value that one should be unprejudiced , for both the attack and the defence are based , in essence , upon deciding who should be called ‘ prejudiced ’ .
26 ‘ Well then , if it was a summer thing that was going he 'd be put in full show regalia ; and that was with his bonnet on his head .
27 THREE Appeal Court judges tried to view the tragedy of Hillsborough coma victim Tony Bland through his eyes when deciding he should be allowed to die .
28 The noise of the crowd surrounding it could be heard even at this distance .
29 The guide , suspecting he would be blamed , became truculent .
30 To put the matter simply , they have the role of deciding what should be taught and when , with the specialist teacher as adviser giving guidance in the case of the visually handicapped pupils as to ‘ how ’ .
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