Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of London and the machine revolved round two problems : journeying to work and the obsession with the notion of through traffic from West London via the centre to the docks . |
| 2 | A second suggestion made by the guardian ad litem is that he should be re-appointed on the question of contact between the child and the mother , and that the court should adjourn that question so that there would be a continuing issue relating to contact and the guardian ad litem could make an application for contact to be brought to an end if he felt that the rehabilitation process was failing . |
| 3 | I would remind those who yearn for their bloodlust to be perpetuated that , in their day , so also were public executions , the burning of witches and ritual disembowelling to mention but a few of the highlights of our glorious heritage . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , there is a massive mismatch in some organizations between the goals the individual is seeking to achieve and the actual rewards these organizations are able to offer . |
| 5 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
| 6 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 7 | ‘ The economic pressures are such that farmers can not afford to employ an adequate number of shepherds and that is leading to neglect and a potential welfare time bomb in the eyes of the general public . ’ |
| 8 | — a one-page plan describing what you are going to do and the order you intend to do it in ( a PROCEDURAL PLAN ) ; — a one-page plan outlining what your essay should look like when it is finished ( a STRUCTURAL PLAN ) . |
| 9 | When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together . |
| 10 | This created an imbalance in the baby 's salts , leading to thirst and the provision of more milk which created obesity . |
| 11 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 12 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 13 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 14 | That ford was going to make but a difficult crossing . |
| 15 | The quartets are well worth getting to know and the performances by the Fitzwilliam Quartet , despite being 15 years old , still seem to reach the heart of the composer 's intentions . |
| 16 | The flowers were tight budded but one was beginning to open and a transitory evocation of summer came to her , bringing with it an old anxiety . |
| 17 | The reduction was regarded by Ministers as modest grounds for hope that the high level of imports is at last beginning to ease and the three-month picture shows a 13.4pc fall in the deficit . |
| 18 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 19 | Relations with DEC are beginning to thaw and a reconciliation is thought likely . |
| 20 | Two days dead , the body was beginning to putrefy and the stench made both Benjamin and myself gag . |
| 21 | Data for gall stone recurrence after extra corporeal shock wave dissolution are only now starting to emerge but the initial results showing 11–15% gall stone recurrencerates one to two years after lithotripsy certainly confirm this prediction . |
| 22 | This means that presuppositions are not just a part of coming to believe but the heart of continuing to believe . |
| 23 | The first four are the direct result of deficiencies of faith in coming to believe and the last three the result of deficiencies of faith in continuing to believe . |
| 24 | Claiming it is ‘ going into implementation mode , ’ OSF believes it can double its licence revenues over the course of this year with Distributed Computing Environment technologies now coming to market and a string of new business partnerships it will establish — see page five . |
| 25 | I have done my best to point out the difficulties and pitfalls associated with learning to hover but the truth is that , from here on , you are entirely on your own . |
| 26 | There was a whole lot of other stuff scheduled for the beginning of the second millennium : green rain , black snow , animals learning to talk and a heck of a lot of red-hot hail . |
| 27 | The King and his Cardinal were preparing to leave and the courtyards were full of sumpter ponies , officials and chamberlains . |
| 28 | The owner must have either an established business desiring to expand or a sound business plan . |
| 29 | They sat sipping the strong , dark brew and chatted idly about nothing in particular , enjoying the warm velvety air , the star-dusted turquoise sky slowly changing to amethyst and the heady-sweet scent from a clump of yellow broom . |
| 30 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |