Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reason for dyeing , rather than painting these floats is because they will take more shotting . |
| 2 | If that is the case , then the only feasible way of including such shares is if the holders assent them to the scheme by separate undertakings . |
| 3 | The only assumption one makes in using such expressions is that in the corpus of writings referred to there are some characteristic uses of language , which are capable of abstraction as a style . |
| 4 | If you make an assertion which you think in principle could be justified but which you do n't have space to justify , you can alert the reader by adding a phrase like : " I am assuming that … " , " we could argue that … " , or " it is generally accepted that … " ; the advantage of using these phrases is that you acknowledge that there is some possibility of disagreement . |
| 5 | Part of the difficulty in compiling these accounts was that there were so few survivors from the coastal towns in the Sunda Straits which were most directly affected , and those who had survived were often too distraught and confused to give an accurate description of what they had experienced . |
| 6 | The really important task facing all religions is whether these particular categorical assertions can be unpacked in such a way as to reveal a piece of the jigsaw which fits with others . |
| 7 | Although one object of having such ministries is that they can deal with problems in a manner specially suited to conditions in Scotland and Wales , the fact that the ministers belong to the UK Cabinet and are responsible to the UK Parliament means that there is considerable pressure for uniformity . |
| 8 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 9 | Another way of interpreting these results is as showing that explicit training is indeed necessary for context-specificity — in this case the two conditions are presented separately ( i.e. there is a block of reinforced trials followed by a block of non-reinforced trials ) but the arrangement is formally equivalent to the explicit discrimination procedure used by Bouton and Swartzentruber ( 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 11 | An assumption underlying all tests is that they actually provide measures which reflect the abilities they purport to test . |
| 12 | One way of classifying such developments is as follows : |
| 13 | Some of the problems associated with answering these questions are as follows : |