Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I find a bit puzzling is that , as far as I can see , automatic inspection of passports will eliminate the keen-eyed , guilt-inducing gaze from the man behind the desk who presumably , is looking for doctored documents , suspicious photographs and forged visas and stamps . |
| 2 | Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types . |
| 3 | LEFT , Examining the efficiency and quality of output by dust-press dishmaking are , left to right , Clive Bourne , Dave Riley , Simon Lovatt and Mike Shufflebotham . |
| 4 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 5 | Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard , and the station was 39 per cent understaffed . |
| 6 | The current in the primary winding is induced by the rotating magnet . |
| 7 | Building surveying is by definition a very technical skill . |
| 8 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 9 | The Institution 's structure was then expanded from three to four Divisions , and building surveying was singled out for the first time , and referred to as IIIB ( Division III , Building ) . |
| 10 | The best way to prevent such damage occurring is to float a piece of wood or a child 's rubber ball on the water , so that the ice exerts pressure against an object capable of expanding and contracting . |
| 11 | Theorem proving is a special case of monotonic search . |
| 12 | Theorem proving is a particularly easy form of search . |
| 13 | The limitation of theorem proving is , the description of the original task may be inadequate . |
| 14 | The major rule applying is that generally most predators will attack only fish smaller than themselves , although some large mouthed predators such as lionfish and large groupers are capable of swallowing prey of almost their own dimensions . |
| 15 | The most important determinant of gall bladder emptying is contraction of gall bladder smooth muscle , although the resistance to bile flow at the cystic duct and sphincter of Oddi may also modulate the process . |
| 16 | In both studies , gall bladder emptying was determined by ultrasonography and dose response curves were determined in both studies . |
| 17 | When gall bladder emptying was assessed 86 ( 93% ) showed a reduction in volume of >30% after the fatty meal stimulus . |
| 18 | Gall bladder emptying was restored to eight of 10 patients managed with an acutely inflamed gall bladder and to 11 of 13 patients with non-function because of a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch ( Table II ) . |
| 19 | For their refreshment , to be eaten at their workplace underground , miners carried sandwiches and a metal flask of water or cold tea , and some sweet cold tea remaining was important to John . |
| 20 | The coal char remaining is fed into the fluidized bed system , while the exhaust from the gas turbine can be used to help drive the fluidized bed . |
| 21 | Gradually , a minor revolution in TV news programme presenting was taking place . |
| 22 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 23 | What we are in effect considering are the implications of debt resulting from earlier decisions about financing . |
| 24 | Here , Stoddard Templeton was well known ; all the staff in the department having been on sales training courses at Elderslie , which they recalled with morale boosting enthusiasm . |
| 25 | The score at Dens Park and Parkhead decreed that Willie Miller 's defence has now conceded fewer goals than any other club in the top flight of the Scottish game , the Aberdeen rearguard having been breached only 26 times . |
| 26 | The ‘ 18T was radically different to earlier variants , a totally new fuselage having been designed to give side-by-side instead of tandem seating and first flight is believed to have been in 1967 . |
| 27 | If liberty and equality were birth-rights , it remained only to establish fraternity. : for , fear having been cast out not by perfect love but by plenty , all men could now become brothers and women sisters . |
| 28 | The children did make changes in vocabulary , substituting " changed " for " alternated " for example , and they also changed syntax , preferring a main clause , " When the wool had been cleaned and combed " to " The raw wool having been cleaned and combed " . |
| 29 | When it comes to commercial sites it 's entirely different business , because what you 're in essence doing is setting up a business park . |
| 30 | Her rent having been enormously increased , because her landlord thought he could get much more from some South American tenants , Ivy began to consider moving . |