Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is strongly recommended that initiating members seek to negotiate fee arrangements with their exclusive sell situation clients that allow them to offer time-based remuneration to participating members with respect to the process of originating foreign purchaser suggestions and/or contacting foreign purchasers . |
| 2 | Wearing out our good clothes or wasting hot water to wash them ! ’ |
| 3 | At least 28 companies in the United Kingdom are developing or producing mains-signalling equipment . |
| 4 | According to the ideas outlined in Chapter 6 , the language processing system is made up of a number of information-processing modules , each responsible for a specific information-processing task ( such as recognising letters , for example , or producing spoken words ) . |
| 5 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 6 | They argue that causation involves one event ( the cause ) generating or producing another event ( the effect ) , and that we can obtain direct knowledge about this causal generation : we do not have to infer causality on the basis of temporal priority . |
| 7 | Nor is there any way of inputting or editing individual records . |
| 8 | This will lead to even greater problems when there are errors in scoring or labelling some portion of the lattice . |
| 9 | If everybody else is bankrolling Australian entrepreneurs , or expanding expensively into the US , or financing umpteen deals with untold debt , that 's a very good reason for doing something completely different . |
| 10 | Frequently the key to advance is in better ways of measuring or quantifying technical processes , or material advances which in themselves remove one of the constraints on development . |
| 11 | This meant that there was a limit beyond which wages could be reduced without harming the industrial process or generating such misery that the workers would rebel against the system . |
| 12 | Jack was there for voluntary Chinese Torture — or re-writing another Barbra Streisand movie , depending on which way you view it . |
| 13 | With accruals accounting , of course , postponing or bringing forward cash payments or receipts has no effect . |
| 14 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 15 | Can you raise income to cover costs ? eg by publications or allowing outside participants on courses . |
| 16 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 17 | 5.9.6.2 prohibiting the undertenant from doing or allowing any act or thing in relation to the underlet Premises inconsistent with or in breach of the provisions of this Lease |
| 18 | 5.9.6.2 prohibiting the undertenant from doing or allowing any act or thing in relation to the underlet Premises inconsistent with or in breach of the provisions of this Lease |
| 19 | Danny Kelly , writing in the NME , said experiencing Gedge 's songs was like ‘ overhearing one side of a telephone conversation or catching edited highlights of an argument . ’ |
| 20 | Trailing wires can so easily be cut when trimming back hedges or mowing long grass . |
| 21 | severe fright , as when hearing bad news or seeing horrifying sights |
| 22 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
| 23 | In the Old World , chimpanzees can deal with unripe fruits , breaking open tannin-rich mature fruits or eating unripe ones . |
| 24 | When you see those wildlife programmes on telly they 're all either fucking or eating each other . |
| 25 | This chapter covers a range of feeding problems found in young children , from not eating to excessively over-eating or eating non-edible items . |
| 26 | Anyway , when it all gets too much and you ca n't bear the thought of writing another Christmas card or eating another mince pie just sit down and have a quiet read of your NCT newsletter ! |
| 27 | Basal or resting metabolic rate ( BMR ) is the speed your body burns calories at rest — in other words carrying out the job of staying alive : blood circulation , cell growth , digestion , thinking and so on . |
| 28 | It is ethyl acetate and isopropanol , not their systematic equivalents , that are still used in coating or laminating flexible webs for numerous industrial applications . |
| 29 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 30 | ‘ When you 're not spitting venom , or preaching amateur socialism , I 've even noticed you 're passably attractive , ’ he persisted teasingly . |