Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the hi-tech gym equipment gives you that information , so even when your simply using bar-bells you will still be able to keep track of energy being used . |
| 2 | As well as aligning objects you can also distribute them ! |
| 3 | This must mean that subsidence has been steady , for any halts in subsidence should have resulted in the formation of fringing reefs which would later have been converted to barrier reefs by renewed subsidence . |
| 4 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 5 | English teachers need to be ready to give careful introductions and support when using texts which might otherwise cause offence to some groups ; for example , if a character with racist attitudes is portrayed , even though the author may not be supporting such attitudes . |
| 6 | This footprint contains three potential overlapping actinomycin binding sites which must therefore be characterised by different dissociation parameters . |
| 7 | We settled down to nine channels of T.V. and a tour of the room-service menu , ordering things we 'd only read about — pastrami on rye ; blue-jack cheese ; sourdough bread and grits and black-eyed beans . |
| 8 | For people who must be detained for the protection of the public because of the horrific nature of their crimes , we should be designing units which will genuinely help them to change to whatever extent is possible . |
| 9 | I practise perfecting things I can almost already play . |
| 10 | The purpose of the Act is to ‘ establish a framework for the provision of advice , assistance and representation which is publicly funded with a view to helping persons who might otherwise be unable to obtain advice , assistance or representation on account of their means ’ . |
| 11 | In deciding whether police services are ‘ special ’ the court will take into account : ( 1 ) whether the officers are required to attend on private premises or in a public place ; ( 2 ) whether violence has already occurred or is imminent — if so , the services can not be ‘ special ’ ; ( 3 ) the nature of the event — public events like elections lie at one end of the spectrum , private events like weddings at the other , and events like football matches somewhere in the middle ; ( 4 ) whether protection can be provided without using officers who would otherwise be on other duties or off duty . |
| 12 | Although the trigger for this phenomenon is unknown , hypobiosis occurs at the start of a prolonged dry season and permits the parasite to survive in the host as arrested L4 instead of maturing and producing eggs which would inevitably fail to develop on the arid pasture . |
| 13 | If you 've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight has n't changed . |
| 14 | During the next three years the industry has committed £1 billion to cleaning up its discharges and recycling wastes which would otherwise be dumped . |
| 15 | Like — if I was wearing jeans it would only be 501s and that kind of thing . |
| 16 | They carefully avoided the black peasant producing regions which would probably have been more beneficial to the Kenyan economy . |
| 17 | I was going places , thinking and doing things I would never dream of in city civvies . |
| 18 | He was doing things I 'd never even read about . |
| 19 | Classify at present as an error indicating difficulties one might normally expect with a younger child , or particularly weak spellers of this age . |
| 20 | In International Relations specifically there is much talk of competing paradigms , meaning not just that there are conflicting unrefuted theories but that the conflict reflects starting points which can hardly even be compared . |
| 21 | They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy . |
| 22 | They 're eradicating tumours which might otherwise have to go untreated because they are inaccesible to the surgeon or unsuitable for other types of therapy . |
| 23 | Schools must calculate the ‘ True cost ’ of letting facilities which will probably reflect an increase in charges , but will generally want to have better facilities and community involvement to attract recruitment . |
| 24 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 25 | Must states , as Evans ( 1979 ) argued , ‘ continually coerce or cajole the multinationals into undertaking roles they would otherwise abdicate ’ even as the pendulum swings towards liberalisation ? |
| 26 | Some of these regulations may not promote efficiency but be justified on paternalistic grounds : workers are held not to be the best judges of their own interests and so are prevented by law from taking risks they would voluntarily undertake for money . |
| 27 | It is possible to provide a wide range of activities involving parents who will enthusiastically organise these under the watchful eye of a member of staff . |
| 28 | He was hard and warm , and the faint musky tang of his aftershave teased her nostrils , evoking memories she would far rather had lain dormant . |
| 29 | Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again . |
| 30 | Instead of reading novels she could often be overheard praying fervently in her private room . |