Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCloskey is right , up to a point , in claiming that in cases such as these we have changed the concept : ‘ What we are ascribing and according are not rights in the ordinary sense of rights ’ ( 1975 : 416 ) . |
| 2 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 3 | For most of our students , the main objective is to be able to communicate confidently in the language of their choice , so practice in listening and speaking are our first priorities . |
| 4 | Beginning , Resourcing , Believing and Remembering are four stages in the ‘ States of Man ’ , the imaginative brief set for the 1991 Smirnoff UK Fashion Awards which take place in June as part of a week of college fashion shows . |
| 5 | Imagining and dreaming are very powerful processes . |
| 6 | The benefits of the balancing , bouncing and clambering are that your body is relaxed instead of recital-rigid and the voice comes over in a strong way . |
| 7 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 8 | Seeing and observing are two completely different things . |
| 9 | Swimming , painting , climbing , dancing , singing and acting are just some of the activities even young children are trying out . |
| 10 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 11 | The Hindu-Balinese calendar is annually calibrated by the astronomer-priests according to lunar and stellar relationships , so that the rites of fasting and planting , rejoicing and reaping , weeping and cremating are synchronized with the actual bio-rhythmic pulse of the island . |
| 12 | Women trapped at home sewing and gluing and stapling are at the dustbin end of dreadful employment practices . |
| 13 | Adding and subtracting are easier operations than multiplying and dividing . |
| 14 | Pulling and shying are two problems that we have all experienced with our horses at some time or another . |
| 15 | Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned . |
| 16 | Questions about trumping and revoking are not questions about experiences — or , if they are , they are psychological questions , not questions about the concepts of trumping and revoking . |
| 17 | Whatever feelings may accompany trumping and revoking are not the meaning of trumping and revoking . |
| 18 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |
| 19 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 20 | But although recycling and reuse are extremely important and something we can all support , the real solution to the waste problem is to try not to produce any in the first place ! |
| 21 | Ideas about baby feeding and weaning are constantly changing and actual practice can have a profound effect on child health . |
| 22 | Stopping , slowing and playing are the diplomatic solutions , but multiplied by the numbers of dogs in most local parks , they make for a badly interrupted run . |
| 23 | It should be noted that , while maiming or wounding are not justifiable for simple recaption of property , yet they may well become justifiable for another reason — self-defence . |
| 24 | This is a clear example of the extension of the Prevention of Terrorism Act where criteria for stopping , questioning and searching are purely subjective to the official involved . |
| 25 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 26 | Las Palmas is a busy commercial harbour so the movement of small boats is largely ignored , and yachts entering or leaving are expected to find their own way through the traffic . |
| 27 | The days when fine buildings could be demolished without anyone knowing or objecting are largely over . |
| 28 | Barking , whining , snarling and whimpering are all forms of communication practised by Fido 's wild counterparts . |
| 29 | Organizing , managing and administering are about controlling and co-ordinating the diverse contributions needed for the attainment of some collective goal . |
| 30 | Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to pupil ; telling , showing and explaining are the order of the day . |