Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many children try solvents before the age of 11 , and it seems that the peak age for experimenting is around 13 or 14 years . |
| 2 | Talk about seeing is believing ! |
| 3 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 4 | Any part with life left in it or potential for reconditioning is set aside for cleaning and re-sale . |
| 5 | What was so shocking about Famous But Not For Singing was the sheer amount of material . |
| 6 | Among their reasons for submitting was a fear that outlawry would lead to the destruction of the church ; in February the king was already threatening to make the outlawry permanent , and in March even the archbishop had his horses seized by royal officers while he was en route from Maidstone to London . |
| 7 | One legitimate reason for panning is to follow the action ; shots of beach football , for example , will need to pan to keep up with the play . |
| 8 | The other legitimate reason for panning is to relate one part of the scene to another , a situation which can arise as a natural part of the action in this day on the beach sequence . |
| 9 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 10 | What he could do , if Ritschl thought it a plan worth pursuing was put together a book of miscellaneous bits and pieces-part literary history , part " new ideas and views " ( neue Ansichten und Aussichten ) of an as yet unspecified nature , part textual criticism . |
| 11 | The three main outlets for reselling are auctions , specialist shops , private individuals or dealers . |
| 12 | However , even if this were permitted , the necessary expertise for contracting is unlikely to be available at the local level . |
| 13 | Specially worth noticing is the charming little house , built at the beginning of the sixteenth century , now the home of the only choir school in Scotland . |
| 14 | What is equally worth noticing is that Antisthenes of Rhodes was one of the historians Polybius disliked and attacked . |
| 15 | Some questions which need to be addressed are what the overall quality of memory for driving is like , what types of detail can or can not be remembered , and what variables , both psychological and environmental , are related to memory ? |
| 16 | This issue will be discussed further in Chapter 5 where the predictions of schema theory in relation to memory for driving are considered . |
| 17 | Basically , all you need to grow flowers for pressing is a window sill or even a grow-bag ! |
| 18 | One of the reasons for writing so much about growing your own plants is that not all flowers and foliage suitable for pressing are available from florists , which can considerably limit the palette of colours from which you will work . |
| 19 | Not wishing to think about dying is a natural response for those who wish to direct their care and attention to the living . |
| 20 | The reason for timetabling is not to satisfy the Government and Opposition Front Benches , but to protect the interests of Back Benchers . |
| 21 | Many young stock for fattening are bought in the market at York from the upland farmers of Ireland , Wales , Scotland and the Pennines . |
| 22 | The timescale for sedimentation is H/v S where v S is the Stokes free-fall velocity ; the timescale for cooling is H 2 / , where is the thermal diffusivity . |
| 23 | If an order for costs or additional costs is required to be made , the time for applying is when an application is made for payment out of court . |
| 24 | The master questioned the boy and the reason he gave for absconding was that the schoolmaster had ‘ meddled with him ’ . |
| 25 | up there , for walking is n't it ? |
| 26 | Horn regrowth after disbudding is far more common in the male goat |
| 27 | after horseracing 's big festival we 've got Greyhounds gala event this Saturday … six dogs will be racing in the pall mall final at Oxford 's Cowley Stadium … five thousand pounds to the winner … its a good night … |
| 28 | Surveys of parking habits by the deparment 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory carried out before and after wheelclamping was extended to the areas of St John 's Wood and Pimlico in London in spring 1987 , show that parking on yellow lines declined by 31 and 17 per cent respectively . |
| 29 | The changes in parking behaviour in St John 's Wood are similar to those observed in the period after wheelclamping was introduced in central London in 1982 . |
| 30 | The considerably lower activity found in malignant ascites may explain why coagulopathy after shunting is less pronounced in this group of patients . |