Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 2 | And with fine understatement it records where getting from A to B is virtually impossible : ‘ There are no rail services in Equatorial Guinea , few tarred roads , very few buses and no taxis . ’ |
| 3 | Such a strategy recognises a clear role for school health education but emphasises that achieving an impact on the minority of young people who choose to smoke will require more substantial and comprehensive interventions . |
| 4 | The high incidence of prostatic obstruction in this study emphasises that finding a raised creatinine concentration in any male necessitates careful palpation of the abdomen and prostate . |
| 5 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 6 | But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal . |
| 7 | What retrenchment we experienced was from below , which illustrates that working daily with the field-worker was a source of greater sensitivity to ordinary policemen and women than was the idea of research to senior officers . |
| 8 | Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement . |
| 9 | According to Professor Thomis , it is " an area of agreement " that wages were generally unable to keep up with steeply rising food prices , while Mathias , pointing to rising money wages as a feature of the period , concludes that inflating prices generally outpaced them . |
| 10 | And plainly Peirce does not deny that we have some common sense grasp of it ; but he holds that taking it seriously transforms the character of inquiry . |
| 11 | — The boot process — Interrupts and revectoring — How disks work — How DOS loads files — Back doors , and how to find them — Some security products |
| 12 | A separate RISC-based processor is dedicated to the control of the 68360's four serial communication channels and operates independently from the main CPU , transferring information , handling serial channel interrupts and performing built-in protocol processing functions , enabling the core processor to handle high-level tasks . |
| 13 | His audience of around 300 loved it , shouting ‘ No ! ’ with gusto after each of Mr Major 's ‘ Do we really want … ? ’ questions and feigning hysterical laughter at his put downs to the hecklers . |
| 14 | The Moving Telex writes and having writ |
| 15 | HIT THE NORTH , a celebration of Scandinavian bands , takes place at London 's Marquee with Eggstone , Poverty Stinks and Sharing Patrol playing the first night and Bel Canto , SS Sol and Inferno 5 playing the second night . |
| 16 | These are auteurist trailers like the preview for Mystery Train which accurately reflects Jarmusch 's cinema of slow dissolves and drifting pans , and is only a minute long perfect , the minimal trailer . |
| 17 | Destroying several small Dwarf holds and looting the tombs of Dwarf ancestors , his forces roamed unopposed whilst the Dwarfs gathered their forces . |
| 18 | If you 've ever wondered what Joan Didion shouts while having an orgasm , she can tell — the names of Herman Melville novels . |
| 19 | If you really know what you 're doing on each and every single note in your lead then you 're controlling your solo , as opposed to merely playing a bunch of licks and exercises while trying to land on a cool note here and there . |
| 20 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 21 | With or without a supportive partner , managing independently remains a common goal for many mothers searching for ways of meeting health needs while cutting back on health resources . |
| 22 | The visually handicapped pupils attending an ordinary school may be greatly helped by a physical and social environment that has been planned with some sensitivity to their special needs while retaining a challenging or ‘ normal ’ character . |
| 23 | Tunisia faces a major challenge in meeting the country 's water needs whilst preventing the destruction of wetland ecosystems . |
| 24 | The conventionalist judge we just imagined , who worries whether deciding against Mrs. McLoughlin would be efficient in virtue of the precedents that mothers may recover for emotional injury sustained at the scene , has no need to look for any larger underlying principle " embedded " in these precedents or to defend one controversial view about the content of these principles . |
| 25 | ‘ Lying in hospital with plenty of time to think , one wonders whether racing is worth all the hassle . |
| 26 | But in what the Law Society also interpreted yesterday as a clear shift in emphasis from the English proposals , the paper makes it clear that the role of the Lord President would be no different from the one he currently exercises when approving training and professional rules . |
| 27 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 28 | The potential of Belbin 's analysis for team management includes clarifying team needs when recruiting new members , allocation of roles , identifying training and development needs , constituting new teams and serving as a basis for team review . |
| 29 | The uniform group of objects that the programmer has when using an object-oriented model , also reduces the sting of the ‘ elegance and simplicity ’ argument used against the proponents of semantic data modelling . |
| 30 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |