Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 2 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 3 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 4 | Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned . |
| 5 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 6 | Bathing and waterskiing are available a few minutes walk away . |
| 7 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 8 | Updating and deleting are straightforward . |