Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three main outlets for reselling are auctions , specialist shops , private individuals or dealers . |
| 2 | This issue will be discussed further in Chapter 5 where the predictions of schema theory in relation to memory for driving are considered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many young stock for fattening are bought in the market at York from the upland farmers of Ireland , Wales , Scotland and the Pennines . |
| 5 | Economic questions about ageing are seen by them to have an explicitly political dimension because the state , being the major determinant of the economic status of the elderly population , is regarded as capable ( and culpable ) of creating a new sort of deliberately structured dependency among old people . |
| 6 | In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing . |
| 7 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 8 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 9 | The effects of sniffing are similar to being drunk on alcohol . |
| 10 | Those who can not write have less power than those who can : their acts of naming are restricted to those who will listen to them , those in the immediate locality . |
| 11 | Very recent figures on the precise extent of subcontracting are difficult to obtain but the Fifth Basic Survey of Industry ( 1979 ) showed that over 60 per cent of small and medium-sized firms ( i.e. up to 300 employees ) were dependent on orders from other firms . |
| 12 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 13 | Saline alluvial soils have high levels of exchangeable sodium and the effects of gleying are clearly evident . |
| 14 | THE Pakistan team should be drummed out of England in disgrace if today 's sensational charges of cheating are upheld . |
| 15 | Used for this type of surveying are resistivity meters , operated by passing an electric current between metal probes pushed into the ground , and measuring the resistance in the ground to that current . |
| 16 | Some implications of these results for eyewitness testimony and for the psychology of driving are considered . |
| 17 | Details of wounding are given in the legend to Table 1 . |
| 18 | What methods of randomizing are you aware of ? |
| 19 | Even then , once surrounded , your chances of escaping are not high , but you have absolutely nothing to lose . |
| 20 | Two common forms of costing are discussed together with the make-up of project and departmental budgets . |
| 21 | Two common forms of costing are discussed together with the make-up of project and departmental budgets . |
| 22 | However , since the rewards of believing are so high ( in fact infinite ) in proportion to the amount staked ( a finite life ) , the bet is worth having even when , in all likelihood , it will be lost . |
| 23 | Haines 's main tasks are to produce a ‘ strategic plan ’ for the Jockey Club , focusing on its role within the racing industry ; ensuring that the needs of racing are effectively understood in Whitehall and Westminster ; responsibility for the Club 's financial planning and maintaining close liaison with the Levy Board and the Horseracing Advisory Council . |
| 24 | In the case of joint submissions a letter will be needed confirming that methods of resourcing are available and have been agreed between the two parties . |
| 25 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 26 | Those on the brink of buying are mostly waiting until the election is out of the way before committing themselves to a new house , but City financier Christopher Moran thinks they are all wrong . |
| 27 | However , radar has the advantage over the passive receipt of radio waves that the pulses sent can be controlled and their nature and time of sending are known . |
| 28 | Some activities which might involve experience of sorting are discussed below : |
| 29 | If the deposition is to be taken in England ( and there may be cases in which a foreign witness can be available in England but not at the date of the trial ) , the examination will be before a judge , officer or ( usually ) an examiner of the court ; if the deposition is to be taken abroad , alternative ways of proceeding are available . |
| 30 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |