Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1948 Scott LJ attempted to elucidate a modern formula for ascertaining whether a covenant was capable of running with the land : |
| 2 | Even companies like M&S have to do it from time : warn customers that something they 've bought could be dangerous and needs to be returned , either for repairing or a cash refund . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not . |
| 4 | Situated in a tranquil area to the north of Forte dei Marmi , the spacious Villa Franchi is surrounded by well-maintained gardens with wide lawns for sunbathing and a verandah . |
| 5 | After seeing that a drawer was empty , he fled . |
| 6 | After deciding that a paper looks , feels and smells to your liking , a few other factors should be considered . |
| 7 | Benjamin O'Gorman , 20 , applied to the Royal Navy after learning that a Gulf War pilot wore contact lenses . |
| 8 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
| 9 | They reached the conclusion after discovering that a number of whales and dolphins washed up dead on the shore between 1987 and early 1991 contained " significant " levels of organochlorides and heavy metals in their tissues . |
| 10 | It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe . |
| 11 | However , there is at least a prima facie case for believing that a word form like bank should be considered to represent more than one lexical unit . |
| 12 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 13 | Rixi certainly had a voluminous ego , and thought nothing of confiding that a team mate was ‘ a selfish bitch ’ . |
| 14 | Others were men of ‘ petit état ’ who , out of daring or a wish to commit pillage , took to this way of life . |
| 15 | There was the novelty of a Teacher of Singing and a Science Lecturer ( each at 10/6d a lesson ) . |
| 16 | Where the evidence seems incontrovertible , it may sometimes be desirable to confront the persons concerned , even to the point of suggesting that a referral to the police might be made . |
| 17 | The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause . |
| 18 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 19 | The cost of checking that a loss has been reported to the Police , Hotel or Courier and the time taken to do so must affect the decision to carry out an investigation . |
| 20 | Mastery of mathematics , according to Cockroft , gives children a powerful means of communication , a way of representing , a way of explaining and a way of predicting . |
| 21 | Hamish Kidd — previously with Heidrick and Struggles — was introduced to them in 1978 , and it was agreed that he would work with them for a year with the aim of establishing that a sale could be arranged . |
| 22 | The program must have some way of establishing when a transput operation is complete , so that a further operation can be initiated or ( in the input case ) so that the input character can be processed . |
| 23 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 24 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 25 | First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc . |
| 26 | We have also seen that there is no mechanical way of deciding whether a function is a public one or not . |
| 27 | The problems of deciding whether a pupil has mastered a concept or skill are discussed in relation to an experiment in giving pupils the same tests in different modes but similar in content and difficulty on two separate occasions . |
| 28 | Humans are not very sensitive to the acidity or alkalinity of liquids , but they are perfectly capable of deciding whether a piece of red paper has turned blue , or vice versa . |
| 29 | Abandoned by her family and deserted by her servants , Elena Petrescu was incapable of grasping that a revolution had happened . |
| 30 | Trollope reaches the point of wondering whether a plumber could go to heaven , before sweet reason intervenes : ‘ we do not see why he should be debarred if cabinet ministers be allowed to enter . ’ |