Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] and [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have an alternative vision , where difference is not just tolerated but valued , and even celebrated , and where physical and social environments are constantly changing to accommodate and welcome these differences . |
| 32 | Political membership of each of the industrial training boards will therefore act as a training ground for politicians , who will then be able to use this expertise in helping to shape and develop this aspect of the political debate at both the local and national level . |
| 33 | They keep trying to kill and eat each other all the time . |
| 34 | How much this resulted from Cruickshank 's own approach to maintaining contact and diplomacy with individual people and concerns — he 's more generally credited with being a man for the ‘ big picture ’ — or from the excessive demands put on anyone trying to run and change such a vast and politically sensitive organisation , is open to debate . |
| 35 | It does n't seem plausible to think that anyone with any knowledge of the difficulties which would have been presented by trying to recover and rebuild enough aircraft to produce the film would have seriously considered the idea . |
| 36 | This time , instead of trying to make and sell another company 's robot , I started from scratch . |
| 37 | Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’ |
| 38 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 39 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 40 | He explained that in 1886 he was making enquiries about the possibilities of opening up the canal routes to the south and was put in touch with a syndicate in London which was proposing to improve and develop these navigations . |
| 41 | WWF is working to collect and save this knowledge . |