Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [v-ing] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of students satisfactorily completing or proceeding was highest for those studying vocation subjects ( mainly social work 81.6% ) and social studies ( 80.6% ) . |
| 2 | Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer . |
| 3 | While accepting that smacking is universal , he believes there are better methods of teaching children what is acceptable or unacceptable behaviour . |
| 4 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The common ground between acting and caricaturing is obvious : both seek to convey personality in a way that prompts total recognition . |
| 7 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 8 | Seeing and observing are two completely different things . |
| 9 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 10 | In this case , even if one reinforces the claim by supposing that littering is illegal , the answer must be No . |
| 11 | Adding and subtracting are easier operations than multiplying and dividing . |
| 12 | Pulling and shying are two problems that we have all experienced with our horses at some time or another . |
| 13 | Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned . |
| 14 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |
| 15 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 16 | Breaking and entering 's one thing , making off with essentials is another matter altogether . ’ |
| 17 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 18 | Rechargeable battery driven cars have attracted publicity for many years , particularly since they are in regular use in businesses where a great deal of starting and stopping is necessary . |
| 19 | However , after a number of fatal accidents this year , some people are questioning whether grooming is such a great idea . |
| 20 | Barking , whining , snarling and whimpering are all forms of communication practised by Fido 's wild counterparts . |
| 21 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |
| 22 | Bathing and waterskiing are available a few minutes walk away . |
| 23 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 24 | Updating and deleting are straightforward . |