Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward .
2 With an estimated total cost of over £300 million , these could include purifying and decontaminating the soil and re-equipping the plant with modern , low-polluting technology .
3 From the age of about six months , your baby will enjoy splashing and kicking in the bath , as long as you are holding on to her .
4 A fuller service will include inspecting and repairing the whole unit and adding new knives .
5 There 's a form on pp. 68–71 that gives a list of the main things that you 'll need to cover when preparing one .
6 From this kind of perspective on the road to socialism , to even consider reconstructing or reforming the British constitution is regarded as a trifling nonsense that borders on the evil of a naive reformism itself .
7 Future developments could include scanning and storing Herbarium sheet images on optical disk , but this is a much larger project , and would have to be carried out in co-operation with other institutions , perhaps with European Community funding , as this would be at the forefront of information technology .
8 They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year .
9 They eat a lot and a large shoal does need stopping and holding .
10 A continual drop in the pond level despite the weather conditions , can be attributed to a leak , which will need finding and sealing .
11 This process will include retrieving and checking existing data , accessing designs from differing workstations if the domains intersect and consequently relating and checking company standards .
12 1 Place the key benefits of the Arelon WDG formulation in order of importance … a Pack is quick to open b Pack is easy to dispose of c Container does not need shaking or washing out
13 That would include making or reviewing a will .
14 Anne Watson offers experience and advice about some of the personal preparation a teacher may need to undertake when moving to a more ‘ investigative ’ style of teaching .
15 What sources of inaccuracy would you expect to find when using the Black-Scholes model to estimate the values of traded options ?
16 Gentle Nail Polish Remover with moisturiser to help prevent splitting and breaking .
17 But not , for the time being , very far , because two miles below Argelés , on the western slopes of the valley , is the little place where I would always choose to stay when coming to Bigorre : the village of Saint-Savin .
18 One would not want to suggest that attending football games on Saturdays , as opposed to any other day , was rule-governed if matches are only ever played on Saturdays .
19 The other thing is if the school children walk round , and through where they 're supposed to go , it still goes past Wide Pond , and they 've eroded all the grass where they 've made their own little footpaths through , I do n't think going that going the other way would make it any different .
20 He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did .
21 Some witnesses heard an engine begin coughing and spluttering and some heard an engine increase from low power to a higher power setting before they and other witnesses heard an impact a few seconds later .
22 But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all .
23 They would begin to know that putting a little eighth note right before the next bar meant anticipation and that made things easier because , if you have a half hour lesson and they want to learn something by Iron Maiden , and you want to show them a dorian mode in three octaves and they 've got to show you their chords in four or five positions , you 've got to work fast !
24 I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along .
25 On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too .
26 Should n't keep smoking and fighting in the middle of the front room .
27 Anyway I 'm not signing off until about 5.30 tonight so I 'll keep waiting and reading those messages until then — after I 've been to the pub at dinner time of course !
28 Well if I 'd have got to see him he might have said something , but I do n't like going and saying do you want me again now or owt you know ?
29 Or else you can be on the way back from from from Europe and suddenly find , Oh I 'm sorry that plane 's not leaving tonight Mister would you mind going and spending the night in the holiday hotel in so and so and so and so .
30 Would you mind going and doing it . ’
  Next page