Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | As so many things will be happening throughout Floriade it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events to come . |
| 2 | Lastly , In the absence of any injuries , suspensions , players returning from injury it is a fair guess on the part of the Ceefax people that the team will be unchanged . |
| 3 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 4 | If there is any possibility of a period of supervised practice before returning to work it is worth taking , in addition to any period of standard reorientation . |
| 5 | From watching raindrops , bubbles and insects walking on ponds it is obvious that water and other liquids have a surface tension . |
| 6 | So in writing about life it is not difficult to have things happen . |
| 7 | In fact , according to Brown it is virtually impossible to teach a language ; what one can hope to do is to provide a situation where the complex variables which contribute are maximised . |
| 8 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 9 | According to Taylor it is the working-class element of the crowd , and not football 's new , middle-class supporters , who have the most developed knowledge of , and commitment to , the club ( i.e. they possess a true ‘ soccer consciousness ’ ) . |
| 10 | According to ecologists it is impossible to predict the long-term impact of tapping into the area 's subterranean reserve , but ratification of the water district plan could result in the drying up of the natural springs in the Death Valley National Monument in California , destroy verdant valleys throughout the West and kill rare fish species such as the Moapa dace , which has survived since the ice age . |
| 11 | In view of the fact that Modernists are still being blamed for the destruction of civilisation , this seems like a good question , but according to DOCOMOMO it is not . |
| 12 | As a Muslim woman from Jhelum explained to me , in Islam a man can marry four times but according to Islam it is his duty to look after each of his wives and treat them honourably . |
| 13 | According to Peterlin it is due to the increased number of taut tie chains , whereas Ward proposes that crystalline bridges are formed , the effect of which is assessed by Takayanagi-type models or , again , by a fibre-composite model . |
| 14 | Task analysis can be very expensive in skilled manpower , but in looking at cost/value it is important to include in value the increase in mutual understanding which occurs when a multi-disciplinary team conducts the analysis . |
| 15 | In looking at people he is looking at profit potential and the attitudes and skills relating to that . |
| 16 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 17 | At the time of going to press he is taking action but the action has yet to come to trial . |
| 18 | At the time of going to press she is back in the C1 psychiatric unit at Holloway as a convicted remand prisoner waiting to go to court . |
| 19 | In the context of the reports that subjects make on going to sleep it is clear that much dreamlike activity goes on which is not associated with the syndrome of EEG , EOG and EMG activity defining REM sleep . |
| 20 | At the time of going to print she is with the Liverpool Everyman Company . |
| 21 | If I risk ending this long study of sexual dissidence by speaking of love it is without apology and simply to acknowledge its inspiration . |
| 22 | he uses words amounting to defamation he is not protected . |
| 23 | Asked whether they feel they have developed this , all reply in the affirmative , so in order to evaluate neighbourhood policing in Easton it is necessary to consider observational data to assess how true this appears from their practice . |
| 24 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 25 | , While taxying on aircraft it is inadvisable to use carburettor hot air . |
| 26 | When dealing with landowners it is best to be known to be always fair , with offers close to market value , or an explanation made when this is not possible . |
| 27 | When sailing in surf it is important to select which wave to jump and also which part of the wave face is best . |
| 28 | Scientists can not be observing and experimenting all the time , and when a scientist is thinking about communication he is no less subject to the superficial attractions of the ‘ transporting ideas ’ model than the rest of us . |
| 29 | Anderson came here on a visit after tidying up his affairs before leaving for Britain He is free from bitterness , and speaks bluntly of the change of motive which must happen to white settlers in a country passing under black majority rule . |
| 30 | The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited , as Jill Stanton has mentioned before , and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves . |