Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Paolo Rovesti , Director of the Instituto Derivati Vegatali in Milan , demonstrated that smelling oils of certain plants can relieve anxiety states and depression . |
| 2 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 3 | In addition to demonstrating the ease with which rats substitute one movement for another in reaching their goal he also demonstrated that cutting the nerve fibres that join the visual to the motor cortex does not interfere with associative learning , as Pavlov had predicted it would . |
| 4 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 5 | Statements in favour of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ and the ‘ freedom to publish ’ — from Milton 's Areopagitica of 1644 onwards — were , therefore , intended as replies to those who maintained that granting the press its freedom would pose threats to the stability of the state . |
| 6 | Somehow she doubted that preparing meals for the child and the husband featured very high on the agenda . |
| 7 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 8 | ‘ I found that delivering babies was exciting and a bit scary , but I noticed that the environment was not comfortable for women . |
| 9 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
| 10 | Against this , some studies in the United States , where formal study of " civics " is more extensive than in Britain , found that taking such courses had little impact on political knowledge and attitudes . |
| 11 | This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised . |
| 12 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 13 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 14 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 15 | We found that adjusting for maternal smoking in pregnancy did not change the strength of the association between birth weight and lung function so that the effect of environment in utero on birth weight and subsequently on lung function may be independent of smoking in pregnancy . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , we soon found that producing a publication of the required length , and assembling a representative group of writers , was no easy task . |
| 17 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 18 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 19 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 20 | The son of a one-time Manchester United football player and star of too many ordinary British films like Pussycat , Pussycat , I Love You and Yesterday 's Hero , found that moving to America paid off , even if it was only in numerous glossy TV mini-series and soaps like Dallas . |
| 21 | We found that using a Western model across cultures has potential . |
| 22 | In his study of Portuguese and English versions of Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 : 6 ) found that abandoning the thematic organization of the source language , in this case Portuguese , ‘ often gives a perfectly acceptable English text ’ . |
| 23 | His teenage resolution was shared by many young refugees , though when it came to offering their services they found that joining up was not as simple as the recruiting posters had led them to believe . |
| 24 | Homeopathy , used by the Royal Family for generations , was discovered in the 1800s by German physician Samuel Hahnemann who found that treating like with like The Law of Similars worked . |
| 25 | Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall . |
| 26 | He also found that sitting a person inside for a period each day helped the processes of healing . |
| 27 | Researchers in Sheffield analysed the contents of several popular brands and found that giving a baby the recommended dose of eight 5ml spoons a day is equivalent to an adult drinking five tots of whisky ! |
| 28 | Always a determined character , he gave up alcohol and smoking the day he pulled on his running shoes , and he quickly found that running long distances was his forte , and that it provided a challenge to fit his temperament . |
| 29 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 30 | Although Hardy went to London with high ambitions , he found that winning prizes — the silver medal of the [ Royal ] Institute of British Architects , and the William Tite prize for a country house design in 1863 — did not in itself ensure advancement . |