Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loaf-tin shaped varieties are seldom tasty or worth eating and are often cooked without the flavoursome larding of fat . |
| 2 | Quite correctly , the ACS insists that such contractors produce the same standards of catering that are expected of the ACC . |
| 3 | I do not regard myself as clairvoyant , but I think it shows that there are other ways of communicating that are important . |
| 4 | Other methods of dating that are useful in specific cases include archaeomagnetic dating , used to date ceramic materials that have not been moved since they were last heated , such as the clay floor of a pottery kiln or a hearth inside a hut or house . |
| 5 | He rushed to St Mary 's Hospital , Paddington , and , after the hours of waiting that are statutory in hospitals , finally persuaded a callow houseman to examine him and pronounce him clear of German measles . |
| 6 | If you 've mastered the basics of riding and are a competent rider lusting after some unbridled adventure , saddle up for trail riding — a trek lasting two or three days with overnight stops . |
| 7 | Prescribing analysis and cost data offer valuable insights into practice indicators of prescribing that are worthy of further investigation ( box ) . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 9 | Roles are characteristic ways of behaving and are especially significant in group and team-work ( see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 ) . |
| 10 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 11 | The importance of the unconscious for political realities of industrial enterprises may seem a tenuous link but objects of feeling that are retained in the unconscious , and constitute our psychic reality , are : |
| 12 | A two year study is to take place which will include the consideration of methods of killing that are more acceptable than stabbing or clubbing . |
| 13 | They could reach no sane accommodation about sharing and are , Kausmann reports , no longer together . |
| 14 | The nostrils of a fish are not involved in any way with breathing but are U-shaped tubes that contain receptor cells capable of sensing the taste of water . |
| 15 | The leaves of palms in general are often used for thatching and are relatively durable compared with most tropical foliage . |
| 16 | In practice it has not proved easy to achieve the drastic cuts in spending that are wanted . |
| 17 | Differences of this kind are both substantial and early to appear ( Wells , 1982 , 1985 ) , and whilst no doubt partly attributable to differences in genetic endowment , they are almost certainly also due to differences in the opportunities for learning that are provided by children 's linguistic environments . |
| 18 | A real understanding of the issued raised will come about by the approaches to teaching that are adopted for this aspect of the initial training courses , which should be in keeping with the best of primary school practice . |
| 19 | Its main disadvantage , the sorry state the diagram reaches when manually drawn out versions are used for monitoring and are continually amended , is no longer a disadvantage when a computer is used . |
| 20 | They are a race of roses that are well worth exploring and are yet another example of the inexhaustible resources of the rose to come up with something new and different . |
| 21 | In May 1927 , 25 cars were sold to T. W. Ward & Co. for scrapping and are thought to have included most of those remaining from this batch . |