Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 2 | One way of understanding this is to view the discourse as proceeding by answering imagined and unspoken questions by the receiver . |
| 3 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 4 | One way of attempting this was to stuff the mouth with rice along with precious substances consonant with the rank of the deceased . |
| 5 | A useful way of considering this is to use the concept of the dependency ratio , that is the ratio of people who are out of the labour market in relation to those who are in it . |
| 6 | In his view the only way of preventing the disputes was to make the office less attractive , and the best means of doing that was to lower the salary . |
| 7 | video , I 'm saying that 's to replace the video you used cos you record programmes for Martin |
| 8 | Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point . |
| 9 | The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 10 | One way of doing this is to use the soliloquy or aside , such flexible resources on the Elizabethan stage . |
| 11 | One way of doing this is to use the purchasing power parity ( PPP ) theory , also known as the law of one price . |
| 12 | One way of doing this is to take a piece of paper and mark the position of the mounting holes and matching them against the motherboard . |
| 13 | The commonest way of doing this is to take the latest available RPI and to assume a constant inflation rate thereafter . |
| 14 | A second way of doing this is to take the deceased 's net income and deduct his estimated expenditure on himself . |
| 15 | One way of doing this is to put the mast track further forwards , thus engaging more of the rail . |
| 16 | The simplest way of doing this is to let the children wear an outfit with shorts , socks and shirt in the colour of their favourite team . |
| 17 | As HCN fumes can be evolved from the mixed stain , the safest way of doing this is to immerse the slide in a dish of hot water before placing in the bath of stain which is at room temperature . |
| 18 | Her way of doing this is to organise a monthly lottery . |
| 19 | The best way of doing this is to study the people who actively assemble and maintain the waiting lists . |
| 20 | A technique for doing this is to make an amusing remark against yourself . |
| 21 | The front skid or main wheel will also need to be chocked , and an easy , effective way of doing this is to run the main wheel into a rut in the ground . |
| 22 | One way of doing this is to count the number of days in any month where you were at or below a certain weight . |
| 23 | The simplest method of doing this is to remove the lid of the cistern ( if it has one ) , laying a length of wood across the cistern and tying a piece of string to the ballvalve arm so that it is held closed . |
| 24 | The only way of doing this is to bring a supply of air to an internal lung , and there to extract from it as much oxygen as possible . |
| 25 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 26 | The recognized way of doing this was to own a boarding house and take in summer guests . |
| 27 | One way of doing this was to tie the ankles together and to pinion the arms against the side of the corpse with the waist-band of the shroud . |
| 28 | One way of illustrating this is to explore the ways in which economic pressures led to changes in the content and style of the newspaper . |
| 29 | One of the best ways of achieving this is to buy a copy of Roget 's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases . |
| 30 | A non-competitive way of playing this is to get the children in a circle with , as well as bananas , several pieces of other fruit such as apples and oranges . |