Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |
| 2 | MacDonald 's rescue plan for Norton involves bringing in new sources of finance , selling the German FUS subsidiary ( he says he 'll get £100,000 — Norton paid £8 million ) , and designing ( personally ) a new , lower-cost bike to replace the F1 . |
| 3 | His wife Josephine , 53 , said : ‘ John loves cleaning up old shell casings and turning them into umbrella stands . |
| 4 | ‘ The training , whilst extensive , needs pulling together more and aims and objectives in some cases need to be redefined ’ … |
| 5 | And if everybody starts getting very large discounts and the vendor loses control of the market , not only do the buyers lose all their advantage , but the vendor loses its corporate shirt . |
| 6 | Towa walks straight over to the turntables and starts mixing together two copies of Lil Louis ' ‘ Club Lonely ’ . |
| 7 | His solution is the pragmatic one , common at the time , which involves establishing as large and vague a syllabus as possible and leaving a great deal of choice to students . |
| 8 | She says bringing up three children plus two career moves her husband works for a computer firm strung out her studies . |
| 9 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 10 | Shortens the route by some two miles though it involves going slightly higher than the main route . |
| 11 | When you weigh it up , would any amount of perks make up for the fact that joining this particular firm involves waking up next to the Prince of Wales or the Duke of York ? |
| 12 | Part of the programme includes contracting out seven nurseries while the remaining three become day centres . |
| 13 | Dissemination of the findings of the testing is diverse and includes sending out some 23,000 full reports and many more summaries . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 15 | Indeed , extra-curricular activity includes attracting as much media attention as possible as a member of Act-Up , the New York activists whose purpose is to elevate Aids to the top of government priorities . |
| 16 | Jammy barsteward this one , always seems to land on his feet when it involves getting in free to everton away games . |
| 17 | As the day wears on they begin to mock each other , particularly Neil Strachan , the melancholy Presbyterian geologist , who keeps ruling out half their best ideas as bloody tectonic impossibilities , and who ca n't do a convincing German accent for the life of him . |
| 18 | Looked very dangerous there , he got at his left full back , er the sad thing from Shrewsbury 's point of view is that he keeps getting down that right wing and he keeps getting crosses in . |
| 19 | That middle drawer over there keeps coming out all the time . |
| 20 | Trimming with secateurs avoids chopping up attractive leaves |
| 21 | Goldthorpe has argued that this justifies studying only male mobility , but it can be argued that women 's occupational position and chances are both important sociologically , and important to women and their families . |
| 22 | He keeps missing out fifteen . |
| 23 | Ringing sounds in ears , vertigo , sensitivity to loud noise , sounds seeming very distant . |
| 24 | But I think it 's too bad that it keeps cropping up all the time . |
| 25 | Adopting this approach to the study of child abuse involves asking rather different questions from those usually asked by researchers . |
| 26 | Motherhood today often involves giving up paid employment ( although nowadays for shorter periods than in the past ) , and with it the sense of identity and community that work affords . |
| 27 | For you as writer , this entails looking so hard at the world you write about that you begin to feel the minute , imperceptible movements within it and learn to give them their most appropriate names . |
| 28 | ( He reflects getting more desperate and rapid . ) |
| 29 | At another hatch an arm appears holding up bright enamel bowls and someone dashes forward to claim the grey cassava and fishheads . |
| 30 | ‘ You should have whipped off the trousers and said the jacket was a mini-dress , ’ said literary agent Felicity Bryan , who remembers doing just that at the Tory Carlton Club 20 years ago . |