Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixation at this stage may result if toilet training is too harsh and demanding or is begun too early or too late . |
| 2 | Unless the offer is recommended and a shut-out ( see para 8.2 below ) is possible ( so that the offeror knows in advance that its offer will be successful ) , the offeror will normally wish to make the rights issue conditional on the offer becoming or being declared wholly unconditional . |
| 3 | ( 8 ) The offer of the cash underwritten alternative is usually made conditional only upon the main share offer becoming or being declared wholly unconditional in accordance with its terms . |
| 4 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 5 | They represent a crystallised situation , which would have arisen if Hook Harris had ceased trading and been sold off . |
| 6 | In the discussion which followed the Zuwaya argued that five hours had passed and they had elected no one : in view of the late hour and the irregularities ( another Magharba member of the local Assembly , doubling as an electoral officer , was suspected of cheating and was escorted out by police ) it would be better to hold the elections another day . |
| 7 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 8 | Footstraps are on the board to stop your feet bouncing or being washed off in stronger winds . |
| 9 | She sat on the tool-box , pressing her hat to her head , and looking not this time out to sea but at all that was passing and being left behind . |
| 10 | All the time , for nearly 200 million years , soil was forming and being washed away . |
| 11 | The prison service is overstretched and to stop the cycle of reoffending and being sent back , the more help , counselling and comfort the betterThe Trust has fourteen hundred prisoners practicing Yoga or meditation . |
| 12 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was a very pretty boy , ’ Jeffrey Bernard admits , adding that being picked up by Minton was a little like becoming Long John Silver 's parrot . |
| 14 | It was a learning situation for all concerned , and in the processes of meeting and debating , reporting and being reported on , there was a substantial measure of self-scrutiny — in relation not only to the content of courses , but also to the procedures being followed within institutions and in the CNAA . |
| 15 | During this trial by ordeal the restaurant was almost empty although people kept arriving and being turned away because : ‘ There are no tables . ’ |
| 16 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 17 | I can enjoy the experience of killing or being wounded fully , because I am not killing or being killed . |