Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking for one can sometimes be a dreary business , and many elderly people on their own do not eat the right types of food to maintain health . |
| 2 | Present evidence suggests that the numbers of the elderly who will find difficulties in looking after themselves will therefore increase : for example , about 20 per cent of the 80-and-over group are likely to suffer from dementia ( Grundy , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | He was living in what would traditionally be described as reduced circumstances . |
| 4 | We are living in what may well come to be known as the age of the American soprano , with Norman , Studer , Millo , Vaness , Hendricks , Battle , Bonney and Upshaw all doing conspicuously well for themselves on disc . |
| 5 | An animal sheltering in them can only too easily be cornered and many hole-dwellers take steps to reduce that risk . |
| 6 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 7 | An alternative way of looking at it would perhaps be to say the Greater York Area is that area within ten miles of the city centre as is indicated by the third of the criteria set out in policy H two . |
| 8 | I was going through what could only be described a ‘ drop-out ’ period . |
| 9 | A multi-circuit pylon capable of carrying the existing line and the new cable and therefore replacing the present line rather than adding to it could also be considered for parts of the route . |
| 10 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 11 | The Norman church was much larger than its present day form , having a north transept of which the arches leading to it can still be seen . |
| 12 | Then 1 ε U [ since we are supposing that we can prove S(1) to be true ] and , whenever k ε U [ that is , whenever S(k) is true ] then k+1 ε U [ since we are supposing that we can then prove S(k+1) true ] . |
| 13 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 14 | Before moving on it should however be noted that it does not follow from the rejection of justificatory theories of corporate power based on antecedent rights that the shareholders ' legal rights in the company , including the right to exercise ultimate control and to have the business operated in their interests , are not morally defensible . |
| 15 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 16 | But an important thing to recognise at the outset is that knowing about oneself can never be a matter of ‘ mere information ’ . |
| 17 | Sometimes the action of a suppressor variable can be so strong that controlling for it can actually reverse the sign of the effect . |
| 18 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 19 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 20 | Fred Astaire ( above ) and Rita Hayworth are starring in You 'll Never Get Rich at the Regal , York . |
| 21 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |