Example sentences of "that [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't really believe that eating a McDonald 's a couple of times a week , as I do , is bad for anybody , ’ said commercial director Lee Soden . |
| 2 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 3 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 4 | I 've found that gluing a strip of sandpaper , or better sill , wet ‘ n ’ dry , to the base of the box/block gives a much better hold . |
| 5 | However , we have to remember that offsetting a large part of this acquisition of funds is an outflow which is being used to meet claims and other expenses . |
| 6 | However , it is very likely that articulating a second language interferes with the processing of the first during simultaneous interpreting . |
| 7 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 8 | Trinity House admits that catching the culprits is virtually impossible . |
| 9 | In the light of this general conclusion which will be substantiated from Chapter 7 onwards , it becomes clear that sharpening the tools of policy-making and increasing the ‘ expertness ’ of government personnel should no longer be the central concern . |
| 10 | For example , theory shows that financing a service by an annually-negotiated budget will result in a higher level of provision of the service than would be socially optimal , and higher than would be provided by financing through charges to the user . |
| 11 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 12 | Many disabled people believe that encouraging a disability culture can only reinforce negative images of ‘ disability ’ — that is , they have not questioned the tragedy view of disability and when they think of a disability culture they assume that this must mean art forms which only present the negative side of disabled living . |
| 13 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 14 | It does not take much imagination to appreciate that maintaining a safe environment in high latitudes and high altitudes with the long months of snow , ice and subzero temperatures will differ from maintaining a safe environment in the humid heat of a tropical forest . |
| 15 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |
| 16 | These companies argue that labelling a specific group ‘ Marketing ’ may tend to ( a ) create a hands-off attitude within it and ( b ) demotivate other groups with a part to play . |
| 17 | But if you do n't want to stretch your luck or your circle of friends , you might think that using a trade association offers some form of protection . |
| 18 | Many people mistakenly believe that using a sunscreen factor 6 or above will prevent tanning altogether . |
| 19 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 20 | We found that using a Western model across cultures has potential . |
| 21 | This study shows that using a prognostic equation containing only three variables : encephalopathy , prothrombin time , and the number of blood units transfused within 72 hours , specific outcome ( survival or death as a result of liver failure or exsanguination ) within six weeks of the first variceal haemorrhage of cirrhotic patients could be predicted in at least 89% of the cases . |
| 22 | The main aim of all the above would be to ensure that using a microcomputer as a tool becomes as natural as using a telephone or a typewriter . |
| 23 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 24 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 25 | I do n't expect he could use a slide rule either , and you and I might think that using a slide rule would be one of the marks of an educated man , but I think things move on . |
| 26 | These films showed that using the past as a mirror through which to view the present was an approach of limited value during wartime . |
| 27 | The code word for locking Germany into the alliance with France is , of course , ‘ Europe ’ , although it is far from clear that using the methods of the 1950s , strengthening the legal structure of the EC , can continue to serve their purpose , since the legal structure itself would inevitably be more and more influenced by Germany . |
| 28 | Switching to the Normal channel I would say that using the crunch option for rock solo work is a matter of taste . |
| 29 | This is made worse by the fact that using the wrong one ( such as ‘ no ’ when the keyname is expecting ‘ false ’ ) may be mistaken for ‘ true ’ . |
| 30 | I have discovered that using the water from my tank on both my indoor and outdoor plants promotes tremendous new growth — four inches on my camellia and three inches on my rubber plant . |