Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that using a Western model across cultures has potential . |
| 2 | WWF found that finding a cuddly plant equivalent of the panda was difficult , so instead it focused on the value of plants to mankind , particularly medicinal plants . |
| 3 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 4 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 5 | The Central Electricity Generating Board estimated that achieving a 20 per cent cut through switching from coal to nuclear , gas and oil would require an additional capital expenditure of £12 billion . |
| 6 | He put her suitcases down in the driveway and reached into the boot to pass her a carry-case which Belinda recognised as containing a portable monitor , something like an electrically amplified stethoscope , which meant that it was often possible for a pregnant woman to hear her baby 's heartbeat as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy . |
| 7 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 8 | Initial experiments by Heather Reed , an ex-PhD student funded by MAFF , showed that providing a single nest site for a group of four birds was insufficient . |
| 9 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 10 | The bank then decided that remaining a regional bank was too risky , so it should try to become an international one . |
| 11 | The expected decline in services may simply mean that we come to regret the time when we felt that having a significant manufacturing base was an optional extra we could do without . |
| 12 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 13 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 14 | Earlier this year researchers learned that inserting a few atoms of potassium into a framework built of buckyball molecules makes the compound a superconductor : below a critical temperature of about 19 Kelvin — or 19 degrees above absolute zero — the material conducts electricity with no resistance . |
| 15 | A measure actually intended to achieve the unpopular objective of raising revenue so as to remedy a funding deficit may , for example , be linked to and presented as instituting a new and desirable benefit . |
| 16 | Anton Chekhov said that reading a short story ‘ feels rather like swallowing a glass of vodka ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Lamont said that following a detailed consultation exercise , he now proposed to offer these people — which included four million self-employed , the option of self-assessment . |
| 18 | The Lord Lieutenant responded with his personal congratulations to all concerned and said that making a double presentation was a first for him too . |
| 19 | And then there was Our Lady of the Leftovers who entered the NFT bar wearing a fur stole and carrying a sequinned evening bag . |
| 20 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |