Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] and [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of London and the machine revolved round two problems : journeying to work and the obsession with the notion of through traffic from West London via the centre to the docks . |
| 2 | A second suggestion made by the guardian ad litem is that he should be re-appointed on the question of contact between the child and the mother , and that the court should adjourn that question so that there would be a continuing issue relating to contact and the guardian ad litem could make an application for contact to be brought to an end if he felt that the rehabilitation process was failing . |
| 3 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
| 4 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 5 | When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together . |
| 6 | — a one-page plan describing what you are going to do and the order you intend to do it in ( a PROCEDURAL PLAN ) ; — a one-page plan outlining what your essay should look like when it is finished ( a STRUCTURAL PLAN ) . |
| 7 | This created an imbalance in the baby 's salts , leading to thirst and the provision of more milk which created obesity . |
| 8 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 9 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 10 | The quartets are well worth getting to know and the performances by the Fitzwilliam Quartet , despite being 15 years old , still seem to reach the heart of the composer 's intentions . |
| 11 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 12 | Relations with DEC are beginning to thaw and a reconciliation is thought likely . |
| 13 | Two days dead , the body was beginning to putrefy and the stench made both Benjamin and myself gag . |
| 14 | Claiming it is ‘ going into implementation mode , ’ OSF believes it can double its licence revenues over the course of this year with Distributed Computing Environment technologies now coming to market and a string of new business partnerships it will establish — see page five . |
| 15 | There was a whole lot of other stuff scheduled for the beginning of the second millennium : green rain , black snow , animals learning to talk and a heck of a lot of red-hot hail . |
| 16 | The King and his Cardinal were preparing to leave and the courtyards were full of sumpter ponies , officials and chamberlains . |
| 17 | I do n't think there 's enough evidence to bear that out as yet , but it 's clear that some companies are now ahead of their consumers in terms of what they 're trying to do and the products they 're developing . |
| 18 | But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools . |
| 19 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 20 | The league is the benchmark for standards which all factories are battling to attain and the competition is continuous and always very fierce . ’ |