Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do your own surveying and/or conveyancing you will spend some time at the Council offices checking with the building and planning officials . |
| 2 | While the Chicago School certainly addressed the expressive order in problematic ways , their critics have thrown out the baby with the bathwater ; misinterpreting or misunderstanding what these sociologists were attempting . |
| 3 | The amount of shearing or elongation which a ductile material will withstand varies enormously between different metals and alloys . |
| 4 | Mind you , it 's not sunbathing or badminton I have in mind but planting — what more satisfying thing is there to do in the garden than to plant bulbs , or a tree or shrub to give you joy for years to come . |
| 5 | Without knocking or hesitation he entered the left-hand door , drew up a chair and , with full and accurate expectation that he was awaited , opened his document case , threw the photographs on the desk and said , ‘ That 's the proof then . |
| 6 | You are a unique human being endowed with your own unique wisdom , understanding and experience which can be put to good use to formulate your goals . |
| 7 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 8 | 1.2 Our terms of reference define attainment targets as : ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ and programmes of study as : ‘ describing the essential content which needs to be covered to enable pupils to reach or surpass the attainment targets ’ . |
| 9 | The Working Group 's terms of reference defined attainment targets as ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ . |
| 10 | Do n't encourage this , but rather help him by summarising and re-phrasing his contribution in a gentle and inoffensive way . |
| 11 | His interests include outdoor activities of fishing , climbing and walking which first introduced him to the area and DIY and cookery . |
| 12 | Much of the bureaucracy 's time was absorbed in checking and double-checking its own work . |
| 13 | By saying this , I am accepting that Geraldine herself may well have engineered the engagement . |
| 14 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 15 | The death threats he received in London do n't point to it , but if you have any other reason for believing that theory I must ask you to reveal it so that it can be properly investigated . ’ |
| 16 | The police have praised Parveen for her courage , but they 're not recommending that women who find themselves in similar situations react in the same way . |
| 17 | ‘ For my sake , maman , she is willing to go , ’ Anne replied — somehow implying that Joan herself had no great liking for the undertaking , but knew her place and her duty . |
| 18 | In revising and proof-reading they should be shown how to check the spelling of difficult words in a dictionary . |
| 19 | If the organisation appoints committees to deal with aspects of planning , policy forming and co-ordination there needs to be clear lines of communication so that everyone involved knows the person to whom the committee reports . |
| 20 | This is used for minor acts of disorder such as shouting and swearing which is likely to cause alarm or distress , displaying abusive or insulting slogans or throwing over dustbins and banking on doors in the common parts of blocks of flats . |
| 21 | The effect of disciplining and training myself morally is to refine my ch'i to a perfect transparency ; then the li show through . |
| 22 | The medium trance is the best one for any treatment requiring regression , as it will be possible for the patient to relive past experiences on a more realistic level , whether seeing and hearing what takes place or being able to describe it as a spectator . |
| 23 | This is thanks to handling and power which , to my mind , would have posed a greater threat to the Honda NSX 's title of best-handling car than any Mazda RX-7 . |
| 24 | This species , the most important lungworm of sheep and goats , is commonly associated with a chronic syndrome of coughing and unthriftiness which usually affects lambs and kids . |
| 25 | The most common signs are coughing and unthriftiness which , in endemic areas , is usually confined to young animals . |
| 26 | It may be worth noting that Heath himself in another article extends his time-scale further back to include the reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | He had admitted suspecting that money he helped Black to launder at banks was the proceeds of drugs trafficking . |
| 28 | While there are relatively few chemicals usable for cleaning and disinfection there are many , probably thousands , of chemical products . |
| 29 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 30 | When I heard about the business of measuring and weighing I realised that all the care and effort I had put into keeping my secret had probably been a complete waste of time . |