Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With four Merlins now completed using this meticulous rebuilding technique ( and two more under way ) some thought had been given to methods of preserving clean and corroded surfaces alike . |
| 2 | Well to prepare the mill , we were erm concreting and or doing knocking all the old tables down and preparing get the er big saw table in , you know to diamond saw table in to cut the slate up . |
| 3 | 3. incongruity between what is expected to be and what actually is , or a situation or result showing such incongruity . |
| 4 | The board favours a more ‘ cost-effective ’ approach that involves strengthening several existing regional centres and enhancing clinical research at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith , west London . |
| 5 | According to the latest FT Systems newsletter , Pyramid Technology Corp 's next hardware product will be a high-end MIPS R4400 system code named Jolt that starts shipping this summer . |
| 6 | Below the coum near the County Stone are the strewn remains of a Second World War plane that crashed killing all the poor lads that were in her . |
| 7 | One of the biggest obstacles to an efficient industrial society is the instinctive feeling that equates emitting less carbon dioxide with privation — using less energy , producing less and losing profits . |
| 8 | One benefit of computerisation is that deals following such a ramp operation are easier to trace . |
| 9 | Is that him that keeps doing that or is it fucking Mark ? |
| 10 | on the , near the printer there 's a screen near the table or something , it 's got this little orange thing that keeps doing this |
| 11 | The trigger points are innumerable but the nurse should have the maturity to deal with the resultant feelings in a constructive way that avoids reflecting any annoyance on to the patient . |
| 12 | There would be no better tribute to Wagner 's contribution than to start defining those questions now . |
| 13 | Well except to start getting that rubbish cleared away . |
| 14 | Even Boscawen , however , had to withdraw to refit and revictual and thanks to Byng 's blundering , which had robbed England of Minorca , that meant going all the way to Gibraltar , which he reached on 3 August . |
| 15 | Erm if it 's more , well this is ridiculous because we were getting , that means getting some more current going through there has sort of changed everything else , so it 's going to be less than fifty ohms . |
| 16 | well in other words that means reprinting that page does n't it ? , page thirty one |
| 17 | Realising that means asking some fundamental questions about what we are actually after , with a lot on offer if we get it right , and disaster if we do not . |
| 18 | Find yourself a willing partner and sit facing each other . |
| 19 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 20 | In other responses , Lord Melchett , executive director of Greenpeace , said that the White Paper was even worse than had been expected from leaks and that the government had " dodged the important issues by reiterating existing inadequate policies and avoided making any new commitments which would protect the environment " . |
| 21 | ‘ He began rejecting his friends and stopped doing any exercise . |
| 22 | Thieves would be unlikely to remove the communications chips because it would be time-consuming and mean disassembling much of the car . |
| 23 | Gladys Hill writes ( aged nearly 96 ) that she enjoys reading a wide range of subjects and appreciates having some of the books from her days at Oxford . |
| 24 | It is the job of the national health service to provide health care and treatment and to continue developing that treatment . |
| 25 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 26 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 27 | There is also now ample research to show that children whose parents listen to them reading at home tend to read better and to enjoy reading more than other children ( Topping and Wolfendale , 1985 ; see also Sheila Wolfendale 's Primary Schools and Special Needs , in the present series ) . |
| 28 | A crewman in Samoa , which passed through the Sunda Straits shortly after the eruption , described seeing bodies and pumice stretching all the way to the horizon . |
| 29 | It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’ |
| 30 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |