Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative approach to targeting that is particularly suited to low risk areas is offered by rapid tests : first identify the risk during labour and then test for carriage . |
| 2 | His drawings again register the pleasure in the ingredients and activity of cooking that is also conveyed by the prose . |
| 3 | But despite overall overall gearing that 's clearly designed with performance in mind , an overall fuel consumption of 32.6mpg shows that the 205XS is still impressively frugal . |
| 4 | significantly , the more time that bands take becoming successful is often reflected by their longer stay at the top . ’ |
| 5 | Also , they note the more marked occupational stability of manual workers in West Germany as a result of the greater prestige of industrial employment , in contrast to France where the employees ' aim on achieving promotion or becoming successful is typically to leave the ranks of the working class and become office workers or independent craftsmen . |
| 6 | Material characteristic of medieval Latin writing that is widely exploited in the fabliaux in ways that are often both entertaining and probing is the dogma of antifeminist traditions : traditions which present woman , the daughters of Eve , as generally morally reprehensible and dangerous to man ; insatiable and extravagant sexual sirens with their bodies , and perjurers , temptresses or endless naggers with their tongues . |
| 7 | Like it really , that film really pisses me off right , when he 's beating her up and he rips her knickers off and fucks her up the arse and Nick 's going that 's how to treat a wo it 's disgusting fucking a woman up her arse , and ripping off the woman 's knickers and rip putting it up sitting watching it thinking |
| 8 | Reaction as a reason for going international is often characterised by : |
| 9 | Now for the ties , an aspect of planting and staking that is widely underrated . |
| 10 | Getting angry is often linked with being ‘ bad-tempered ’ , ‘ out of control ’ or even aggressive . |
| 11 | And a very good way of doing that is obviously to find suitable outlets , and I would suggest that suitable outlets very often consist of local radio , which there is a thirst , on the whole , for good , appropriate items . |
| 12 | You have two options , you either accept that or you reject it , and send back to the people involved saying this is not completed . |
| 13 | The object of doing this is both to disguise your foot movement and to make the opponent shift his weight back slightly . |
| 14 | The aim in doing this is not to depress yourself but to be open to the possibility of self-improvement . |
| 15 | The point of doing this is not to suggest that Western organizations are just like the modernist ideal type . |
| 16 | The best way of doing this is perhaps to follow the advice of Ruth Rendell ( Read her books ) who once said , " I try not to make errors in my descriptions of police work : I accomplish that largely by leaving it out . " |
| 17 | This was an approach to literacy learning that is now recognised and valued as the language experience approach . |
| 18 | We can see from Labour 's amendment J that Councillor , as I said earlier , intends to go down the same old socialist way of providing the very type of housing that is currently failing tenants . |
| 19 | He 's got a rare understanding of the blues , both on acoustic and electric , but it 's his slide guitar playing that 's really earned the praise . |
| 20 | The way of avoiding this is not to list all the sounds , but rather to list the signals or messages that the cat is trying to convey to its companions . |
| 21 | The words we use , though they have a central core of meaning that is relatively fixed , have a fringe of uncertainty when applied to the infinitely variable facts of experience . |
| 22 | But in most situations , when you 'd be asking a colleague on the same staff to work with you , you 'll need to find a way of working that is not going to cause massive disruption to the school timetable , that 's not going to demand that the headteacher come and cover one of your classes while you 're busy with your investigation into the disappearance of the crew of the Marie Celeste . |
| 23 | What seems to be driving them is a desire to create the small-town feeling that is fast disappearing in America . |