Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |
| 2 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 3 | I was returning from shopping with 17-month-old Lee in his push-chair when a large brown dog attacked , snarling at the feet of my terrified infant . |
| 4 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 5 | If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular . |
| 6 | And therefore the schools should remember this when looking into going for other options , which may mean there 's very little difference between them and the D S O , and the fact that th that the profits made by the D S O will be lost if they have n't got that contract , and I think that 's a very important point that they should take on , and I think a lot of schools miss out on that particular idea . |
| 7 | Qualifications ranging from accounting to supervisory management , catering and word processing were awarded to the former employees . |
| 8 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 9 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 10 | If they 're split , you ca n't have people from the field going into dealing with national account managers when my people are also dealing with them . |
| 11 | Adding in refinancing of maturing debt ( and allowing for individuals ' national savings ) , that means that £1 billion of gilt-edged debt must be sold per week . |
| 12 | Instead of being able to visit the School Library Service base to examine new titles ( usually approval copies sent by library suppliers ) , school librarians were turning to browsing in local bookshops , buying from travelling discount booksellers , or choosing from publishers ' catalogues . |
| 13 | Plants tend to grow big and lush on heavy soils , a feature worth enhancing by going for vigorous species . |
| 14 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of May 23 speculated that Do Muoi " may have won an extension of the deadline for switching from accounting in transferable roubles to hard currency , set for April 1 " . |
| 15 | Support for the Association 's work continues to come forward and the Association is increasingly benefiting from working with other organisations on mutually beneficial projects with the Association often achieving both publicity and financial assistance . |
| 16 | Others including Anthias species , Cardinal fish and the colourful Royal Gramma are zooplankton feeders specialising in feeding upon macro planktonic organisms , that is zooplankton of a size easily seen by the naked eye . |
| 17 | For some organisations specialising in catering for certain kinds of " event " , or for some operating in certain regions , these seasons are more pronounced than for others . |
| 18 | Such knowing like reaching through deep snow to the land beneath . |
| 19 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 20 | Asked if he accepted Mr Hume 's word , Mr Trimble replied : ‘ I think a very serious question-mark — I am sorry to say — has to be placed against Mr Hume 's motives , because he is persisting in talking to republican paramilitaries at a time when other people are anxious to see positive dialogue taking place . ’ |
| 21 | And if it 's going to be relevant , from July onwards if Paul 's talking about moving into different premises , |
| 22 | One of the traps adults fall into in learning a second language is that of embarking on speaking without adequate listening . |
| 23 | In the post-Bullock years , thinking about writing at secondary level in particular has been dominated by the model developed by Britton and his colleagues at the London Institute for the Schools Council . |
| 24 | Could I just say , if you 're thinking about going into small business , for heaven 's sake use the small business advice bureau . |
| 25 | If someone a obviously it 's it 's what I 'm asking is hypothetical anyway because I mean the flats are coming down so no one new can move in , but say you actually if if it was possible for other people to move into these flats and you knew someone and they said erm , You know I 'm thinking of moving into Green flats , what would you say ? |
| 26 | We have semi-skimmed milk but I 'm thinking of switching to skimmed milk because my husband Chris is trying to cut down on fat . |
| 27 | If you 're thinking of putting in central heating , the type of system you should install will depend on more factors than the hot water requirements . |
| 28 | He plots a path to veer and to avoid , to watch cars flashing by smiling at blank , unknown faces in mutual avoidance . |
| 29 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |