Example sentences of "[v-ing] is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of conflicts of interest and duty occurring is enhanced by the nature of the organisational structure of the financial services industry , ie the prevalence of conglomerates . |
| 2 | Resistivity surveying is based on the principle that underground features such as masonry walls have a high resistance to an electric current , whereas filled-in features , such as ditches or pits , have a lower resistance . |
| 3 | Unwanted movement and twisting is prevented by a connecting Kevlar bar . |
| 4 | The whole of this test pressing is issued for the first time , but the new material consists only of music — there is no more of Elgar 's voice . |
| 5 | Now er with the vehicles on the road today more and more accidents And certainly motorways , and bearing in mind I would imagine , er would it be true to say that the majority of mo driving is done on motorways and dual carriageways ? |
| 6 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 7 | The rated current of a stepping motor winding is assessed on the basis of the maximum allowable temperature rise when the winding is continuously excited . |
| 8 | The excitation winding is connected in series with a small current-limiting resistor . |
| 9 | The stator of each stack has a number of poles Fig.l.3(b) shows an example with four poles — and a part of the phase winding is wound around each pole to produce a radial magnetic field in the pole . |
| 10 | The current in the primary winding is induced by the rotating magnet . |
| 11 | The degree of checking is determined by the section engineer responsible for the project . |
| 12 | 7.6.3.5 the rebuilding or reinstating is prevented by war act of God , government action [ strike lock-out ] or |
| 13 | 7.6.4 The Landlord shall not be liable to rebuild or reinstate the Premises or the Retained Parts if and for so long as such rebuilding or reinstating is prevented by Supervening Events |
| 14 | This process of policy-shaping is held to be legitimate because the local state has to react to popular pressures in devising its welfare systems . |
| 15 | The Speaker is nominally chairman of each of them but the actual work of chairing is undertaken by deputy chairmen , who are superior court judges . |
| 16 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 17 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 18 | Generally speaking , rechunking is done for two main reasons : ( a ) the source text is divided into chunks ( whether sections , paragraphs , sentences , or clauses ) that are either too long or too short in terms of target-language average chunking of similar material ; or ( b ) the nature of the target audience is different in terms of level of specialization , age , etc . |
| 19 | Trevor uses all the appropriately authentic woods for his models — maple , mahogany , koa and alder — and the hardware and detailing is made from materials including solid silver and mother of pearl . |
| 20 | Learning by remembering is applied in many situations and under different names . |
| 21 | The situation is quite similar therefore to that with the verbs of perception , which explains why Kruisinga and Erades ( 1960 : 366 ) have pointed out that " the perception or causing is thought of as happening simultaneously with what is perceived or caused " . |
| 22 | He says all the studies show sunburning is linked to cancer . |
| 23 | But it does n't it does n't take from the point that I made that it is i i the allocation they 're seeking is aimed at a very specific sector of the employment base . |
| 24 | It 's the first session when they have actually identified some of the strands that you are going to pursue and then subsequently looking is framed by that decision . |
| 25 | Mr Poynor noted that a ‘ naturalistic/realistic ’ style of acting is required for this play and that it is interesting for actors to ‘ play against character . ’ |
| 26 | Dressing is dealt with at greater length in a later chapter . |
| 27 | The degree of scattering is affected by the distance traversed through the atmosphere , called the atmospheric path length . |
| 28 | The angular attenuation of scattering is measured by the particle scattering factor which is simply the ratio of the scattering intensity to the intensity in the absence of interference , measured at the same angle θ . |
| 29 | Costing is discussed in detail in Chapter 9 . |
| 30 | First , many people 's experiences are consistent with the notion of ‘ premature ’ physical ageing ; for them , ageing is characterised by a process of ‘ general deterioration ’ which appears to be more closely associated with the length of time since the onset of the impairment than with age itself . |