Example sentences of "[v-ing] these [noun] [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Some of the problems associated with answering these questions are as follows : |