Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 2 | The Government are pursuing policies that are directly linked to the rise in crime . |
| 3 | Some may be used to develop skills of inference , seeing meanings that are not explicitly stated . |
| 4 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 5 | This definition of the sum invested has the advantage of producing returns that are roughly similar in size and dispersion to the returns on the underlying shares . |
| 6 | It is a sad fact of life that very few writers are capable of producing books that are both written from a position of commitment and are successful pieces of writing . |
| 7 | Hundreds of morons ( supporters of both sides ) always did their best to spoil the day by singing songs that were either anti-Papal or pro-King William of Orange . |
| 8 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 9 | In his despair , Maisie came to him now , that familiar loving face with its bright violet eyes and a profusion of greying hair that was never in place . |
| 10 | The same problem applies to the new proposals , which are based on compensating flocks that are far lower than the Scottish average . |
| 11 | In addition , as is now the experience of populations in a number of the economically more advanced countries , when certain changes in society conflict with other conditions , there may be compensating changes that are not necessarily desirable . |
| 12 | Rapid changes in the market place put a great strain on top management to ensure a company is keeping pace and is sufficiently aware of what is happening around the world . |
| 13 | Broad objectives are set out in enabling legislation and are subsequently amplified as a result of statutory instrument ; ministerial directions ; discussions of the House of Commons Select Committees ; Committees of Enquiry ; consumer councils ; and so on . |
| 14 | surplus arising out of the operation to be distributed to members in proportion to their purchases ; this was originally distributed through dividends , later it was paid through trading stamps but is now being increasingly abandoned in favour of lower prices ; |
| 15 | So , although there is clearly an argument for using buckets that are as large as possible , over-large buckets will mean that an extended search through the bucket will be required to locate the desired record . |
| 16 | Through exposure to children on school practice , through attending lectures , writing essays and being reasonably responsible in college we would ( he said ) be ready , in two years , to enter teaching . |
| 17 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're paranoid and arrogant , imagining motives that are n't there , ’ she said angrily , resenting the slur on her sex . |
| 19 | And it is true that , I mean , well , you know , I 've spent a lot of time reviving typefaces that are not around , I mean , you know , propping them up , creating a waxed edition , sort of Madam Tussauds version of Lucien or something , but it 's very interesting — there is not , in type development terms , there is n't a whole lot that has happened after the Second World War that really turns me on . |
| 20 | They are extremely strange looking fish that are about 8″ long with a long beak like protrusion of about 4″ long and they are black in colour . |
| 21 | Nebiolo , who has so far declined to enter into discussions with Jennings and his group , insisted in Stockholm that the IAAF did not have unlimited reserves to pay out prizes and said pointedly : ‘ People are believing things that are not realistic . |
| 22 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 23 | It must be highly effective against a wide range of micro-organisms on a wide variety of surfaces and operating conditions while being fast acting and unaffected by any cleaning product or other residues which may be present during application . |
| 24 | For the d-i-yer , the TEC LM100 offers a quick and convenient way of forming bonds that are not under great pressure . |
| 25 | But as such just because you 're hiring people that 's still going to be , in Marxist terms , seen as exploitation . |
| 26 | Finance companies , by adopting a ‘ take it or leave it ’ attitude used to insist on inserting terms that were very onerous for the customer — terms to the effect that all implied conditions and warranties were excluded ; that in the event of the customer 's payments falling into arrears the finance company could repossess the goods ; that in order to repossess the goods the company 's agents could trespass upon the customer 's premises ; that in the event of the customer terminating the agreement he should pay a large sum of money to the finance company , etc . |
| 27 | North Cornwall must have some of the most spectacular scenery in the whole of the British Isles , and the coastline from Morwenstow to Looe consists of wild , towering cliffs that are so rugged many people have lost their lives on them . |
| 28 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 29 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 30 | For this was a Q train two normal enough looking carriages that are not all that they seem . |