Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 2 | Its sheer size , mountain locality and NE aspect mean climbing here is of a serious nature . |
| 3 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 4 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 5 | Topping up is by a hose , placed so as to pass water through the filter before reaching the pond . |
| 6 | Venturing upstairs is like entering another world . |
| 7 | Binding off is like backstitching on the machine . |
| 8 | The only one that is going ahead is in the Fens , north of Cambridge , at Westmere . |
| 9 | The only multiple testing therefore is within the time periods after population mixing ( a total of two cells ) . |
| 10 | Looked at in this way theory then becomes the ordering of facts and findings in a meaningful way and this ordering and building up is of the very essence of scientific enquiry , since without ordering facts and without putting them into some systematic framework there can be no generalizations and no predictions . |
| 11 | But all those optimistic forecasts have been catastrophically wrong and the doomsters proved right , after all Britain has instead suffered the most severe and unremitting recession of the postwar period : and there is no evidence , even now , that the economy has bottomed out , let alone that a growth rate anywhere near the 2.5 per cent necessary to stop unemployment from rising indefinitely is on the horizon . |
| 12 | A useful sort on the level for Mark Prescott , Moving Out is with the right trainer — Henrietta Knight seems to have a talent for turning Flat horses into capable jumpers . |
| 13 | Funding is to be centralised and Home Office policy on contracting out is to be followed . |
| 14 | This programme coming on is about people have bad dreams and all , and walk in their sleep and By Jesus ! . |
| 15 | He has a pleasing , busy batting style but his fielding alone is worth the admission money . |
| 16 | But Hobbes is certain that as to ‘ those that say anything may be … produced by … substantial forms … and other empty words of schoolmen , their saying so is to no purpose ’ . |
| 17 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 18 | The Secretary of State claims that opting out is in the best interests of patients . |
| 19 | On some walks , like the Corsican High Level Route for instance , cutting the route short is time is running out is by no means easy . |
| 20 | ‘ Why I ever allowed Stephen to talk me into coming here is beyond me . |
| 21 | Now this techniques we 've been using here is for you can use that for any straight line graph . |
| 22 | That man sitting inside is from the Washington Post . |
| 23 | The work women are carrying out is by no means easy . |
| 24 | Thinking thematically is in fact not necessarily an intellectual exercise . |