Example sentences of "[v-ing] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph . |
| 2 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 3 | Simple social skills like apologizing are given no place because the most important thing is not to lose face . |
| 4 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 5 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The effects of the intercalating chromophore on platinum binding are probed by including cisplatin , 7 , PtenCl 2 , 1 and PtpropCl 2 , 4 , as monomeric comparators . |
| 8 | The more relevant LIFESPAN forms and outputs you will be seeing are shown in Figure 2.4 . |
| 9 | Ideas for additional stalls welcome — please contact Betty Boyce — 09323 40442 — A few more names to help with stewarding are needed — many thanks to those who have already offered — but — with more stewards — the load would be lighter ! ! |
| 10 | Several factors such as tobacco smoking , heroin smoking , cannabis use , asthma , bronchitis , heavy alcohol use , malnourishment , and bad social conditions resulting in poor housing and crowding are known to predispose to bacterial pneumonia . |
| 11 | Learning , singing , and praying are rolled up into one : catechesis , as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters . |
| 12 | The result of this process of ‘ making do ’ with what is available is that any likelihood of collections of such presently unavailable poets appearing are rendered even more economically impossible . |
| 13 | Lists in which items appearing are selected , and purport to be the most important works on the subject , but for which no annotation , evaluative or informative , is given . |
| 14 | Details of wounding are given in the legend to Table 1 . |
| 15 | Many young stock for fattening are bought in the market at York from the upland farmers of Ireland , Wales , Scotland and the Pennines . |
| 16 | Indications that such processes are occurring are provided by the existence of molecules such as C 2 H 2 and C 6 H 6 , which can be produced from CH 4 through the action of solar uv radiation or thunderstorms . |
| 17 | THE Pakistan team should be drummed out of England in disgrace if today 's sensational charges of cheating are upheld . |
| 18 | Some implications of these results for eyewitness testimony and for the psychology of driving are considered . |
| 19 | This issue will be discussed further in Chapter 5 where the predictions of schema theory in relation to memory for driving are considered . |
| 20 | Police are now anxious to trace the buyers who might not yet realise the cars they are driving are stolen . |
| 21 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 22 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 23 | In Australia , all launching is done this way , and for a time it was common in the U.S.A. The disadvantages , however , of the low tow position are as follows . |
| 24 | The possibility of conflicts of interest and duty occurring is enhanced by the nature of the organisational structure of the financial services industry , ie the prevalence of conglomerates . |
| 25 | The reason for the inclusion of the word ‘ limited ’ in the title of limited companies is to enable those trading with the company to know that the liability of members of the company with which they are trading is limited . |
| 26 | Resistivity surveying is based on the principle that underground features such as masonry walls have a high resistance to an electric current , whereas filled-in features , such as ditches or pits , have a lower resistance . |
| 27 | Unwanted movement and twisting is prevented by a connecting Kevlar bar . |
| 28 | And although turbocharging is proposed , a limiting pop-off valve would restrict power to 400bhp . |
| 29 | Where branches are in any doubt regarding the correct action to be taken or whether underpinning is required , the full file should be submitted to HO Home Claims & Support . |
| 30 | The whole of this test pressing is issued for the first time , but the new material consists only of music — there is no more of Elgar 's voice . |