Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [adv] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a shortage of nesting holes probably limits the numbers of owls that can breed on an estate . |
| 2 | KEEPING prices high keeps the shite out , ’ says Tony Willis , the new director of Allied 's up-market Nicholson 's pub chain in London . |
| 3 | The production 's passion for substantiating things also has the effect of downgrading Iago 's freewheelingly malign genius . |
| 4 | The trend towards rising standards certainly provides an explanation of why housework hours have shown no notable decrease in recent years ; pre-prepared foodstuffs , household machines and equipment , and cleaner more comfortable homes do not necessarily reduce the housewife 's work-load . |
| 5 | Inserting and deleting records also presents a problem . |
| 6 | Taping rehearsals also reduces the likelihood of arguments about who played what at the last rehearsal . |
| 7 | The dead , rotting larvae then becomes a source of infection to any other larvae in nearby combs . |
| 8 | Levi-Strauss ( 1969 ) proposed that , women being the most important resource that men have , a system for exchanging women always underlies the social control of marriage . |