Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 2 | Fraud is defined in the New Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus as ‘ deliberate deception , trickery , or cheating intended to gain an advantage . ’ |
| 3 | Once the work was hung I wanted it to occupy the space comfortably without dwarfing the area or appearing lost . |
| 4 | So when the male of such a species approaches a female hanging , large and menacing , on her web , or lurking hidden beside it , he signals to her by twanging the threads at one side in a special and meaningful way which he trusts the female will recognise . |
| 5 | It is extremely simple to make as everything is mixed together all at once , with no special beating or whisking involved . |
| 6 | I think one of the problems is not taking out rate card , if you leave out , if you actually say this procedure does not cover full estimates and costs or costing based on rate cards . |
| 7 | The only problem is that the number of treatment combinations resulting is usually considerable so that large blocks must be tolerated or confounding introduced . |
| 8 | Or getting rid of the old one . |
| 9 | General lighting in a bedroom should be subtle , but be able to provide bright light when necessary — for example when trying on clothes or getting dressed . |
| 10 | But now more and more maybe cos they 're taking early retirement or getting made redundant I mean it 's the fellers is n't it ? |
| 11 | In this business , a sense of direction can mean the difference between laughing like a drain or getting caught with your trousers around the ankles of a friend you never had . |
| 12 | Testosterone also seems to rise with success — winning a game or getting promoted . |
| 13 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 14 | Other spirits were extremely malignant and much to be feared , and if prayer or lasting failed to exorcise them then the mine might need to be closed . |
| 15 | Under the Acts it is a criminal offence for a dealer to offer or agree to give an inducement or reward to another for abstaining or having abstained from bidding . |
| 16 | It was n't a statement she was used to making , or having questioned . |
| 17 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 18 | It was n't just being in love , or having made love — it was the feeling of being two against the world . |
| 19 | Most of our red deer are feral , having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks . |
| 20 | If the retaining bar on the main bed is worn , that is , with the sponge damaged , worn out or having lost its spring , you will get problems when knitting . |
| 21 | The fines , donations of money , packets of crisps , biscuits and home-made cakes , were imposed for ludicrous offences : not having clipped the hedge , or having clipped the hedge ; leaving a gate open ; having , or not having , curtains across the windows . |
| 22 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 23 | A court , if it wishes to interfere , can always characterise an alleged error as having resulted from asking the wrong question , or having taken account of irrelevant considerations . |
| 24 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 25 | On the return from Venice you will again fly ( or coach ) , or having enjoyed three extra nights in a superb hotel in Venice , you will return on the world-famous and exclusively chartered Orient Express train . |
| 26 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 27 | More specifically , in allowing certain individuals the benefits of incorporation the state is viewed as having made a concession or having bestowed a privilege on them . |
| 28 | Dr Arnold lauded the Reference team as much as he did his favourite orchestra , who sat down and played his works without any rehearsals or having read the music . |
| 29 | Each day starts with a programme of group exercises carefully planned to help the children to change position , starting from lying or sitting followed by individual and group standing and walking practice . |
| 30 | Instead there is a vile soda , so sweet that drinking a couple of glasses is probably no worse for your teeth than getting hit in the mouth with a bottle of the stuff . |