Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 2 | ‘ If someone is thinking about going back into education , I 'd say : ‘ Go for it . ’ |
| 3 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 4 | There is no way of telling if someone is infected by looking at them , but a special blood test declares a person negative or positive . |
| 5 | The Antarctic meteorite ( ALHA8 1005 ) , which is suspected of coming from the Moon , was discovered far to the west of the main meteorite concentrations in the Allan Hills region . |
| 6 | Discipline is thus ‘ a very general notion which is connected with conforming to rules ’ , whereas punishment is ‘ a much more specific notion which is usually only appropriate where there has been a breach of rules ’ . |
| 7 | This provided an arithmetic mean of the H + concentration , rather than a geometric mean , which is calculated by averaging the pH values directly . |
| 8 | K-Swiss continue the theme of protection , support and stability with its Grancourt Gstaad tennis shoe , again a shoe for both men and women which is constructed by combining sock lasting in the fore part and board lasting at the heel to support and stabilise the foot . |
| 9 | As with coverage of political events , there is a need to ensure intelligibility ( which is achieved by evoking stereotypical explanations , such as the role of agitators or ‘ hooligan youth ’ ) and excitement ( hence the fixation on the dramatic and spectacular ) . |
| 10 | In taekwondo the basic stances resemble those used in karate — the forward stance , which is achieved by extending the leading foot forwards , with the feet at shoulder width , and the back stance , which is formed by transferring the body weight to the back , supporting leg , with the hip lying above the bent , supporting knee . |
| 11 | That was another thing discovered : carp seemingly preferred baits that had a tough , leathery skin , which is achieved by rolling the HNV paste into bait-sized balls and boiling them for up to two minutes . |
| 12 | IBM Corp reveals in the proxy statement for the annual meeting that total pay and benefits for chairman and chief executive John Akers fell 17% in 1992 to $1.3m — Akers ' variable incentive payout , which is based on operating results , was $375,000 , a decline of 42% on 1991 , reflecting both IBM 's performance against targets and relative performance from year to year ; IBM said for the past two years , Akers ' annual pay declined over $1.3m , a fall of 50% ; it proposes to elect John Akers to the board after quits the top job . |
| 13 | The name is derived from the author of this approach , which is based on examining group processes during the progress of a series of practical tasks . |
| 14 | As Shelter ( 1974 ) point out , one way of abolishing much tied accommodation would be to eradicate the need for it , which is based on housing shortage . |
| 15 | We have used a trend analysis which is based round setting the 1984 figures as a base year and producing an index number trend from that year . |
| 16 | Cornelisssen keep a good stock of parchment for drawing , which is prepared for drawing by rubbing the surface with pulverised gum sandarac . |
| 17 | A semiconductor product is defined as : an article the purpose , or one of the purposes , of which is the performance of an electronic function and which consists of two or more layers , at least one of which is composed of semiconducting material and in or upon one or more of which is fixed a pattern appertaining to that or another function . |
| 18 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 19 | But in a business which is geared to giving people a good time , there is no doubt that there is a strong temptation to gloss over potential problems . |
| 20 | And so we have a dimension of politics in international politics and within the state which is related to securing objectives which are not directly connected to security using the means of violence . |
| 21 | At ground-floor level , the stair devolves into a central hall , from which access is gained to the single lower-storey bedroom , a waiting lobby associated with the office , and the bathroom/WC as well as the living-room which is reached by passing below the gallery . |
| 22 | In b , cells in S phase were labelled in vivo by an intraperitoneal injection of BrdU ( 0.1mgg -1 body weight ; Boehringer-Mannheim ) , which is incorporated into replicating DNA . |
| 23 | These wishes concern the need for protection through love from a parent ; the need for relief from the feeling of helplessness which adults retain from their babyhood ; and the desire to see justice fulfilled , which is met by positing another , future , life . |
| 24 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 25 | The only characters which appears to separate them are the scaling of the disk , which is formed of imbricating plates in O. retecta but non-imbricating plates in Ophiochondrus , and the covering of thick skin over the jaws and ventral part of the arm in O. retecta which is absent in Ophioxhonseua . |
| 26 | In taekwondo the basic stances resemble those used in karate — the forward stance , which is achieved by extending the leading foot forwards , with the feet at shoulder width , and the back stance , which is formed by transferring the body weight to the back , supporting leg , with the hip lying above the bent , supporting knee . |
| 27 | When the hunt — which is conducted by setting grass fires and spearing the pigs as they flee — separates a sow from her litter , the hunters put the piglets in a bog and take them home to the women , who proceed to raise them as though they were children . |
| 28 | Last week , Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the Exchange , announced the appointment of Sir Geoffrey Littler as head of the Clearing House Formation Committee , which is charged with developing the proposals for the new settlement system . |
| 29 | Several of the companies were newly founded last month , the most ambitious of which is Advanced Computer Technology Ltd or ACTec , which is charged with producing both an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch , and separately , a wireless local network system . |
| 30 | Housing for Wales , which is charged with dealing with social housing , is on target this year to build 3,500 houses and to invest £170 million in new social housing . |