Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present indications are very clear that they are now preparing to intervene in Cuba and destroy the Cuban revolution . |
| 2 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 3 | Yet his manner made it clear that he was simply stating a fact , not flattering with a compliment . |
| 4 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 5 | The audience was given no hint that he was envisaging the terms as an antithesis , let alone that he was feeling his way towards significant categories of thought , although from various notes from the winter of 1869–70 it is clear that he was now doing just that . |
| 6 | It is clear that it is still campaigning to have licensed growth promotions reinstated for beef cattle . |
| 7 | I have no desire to detract from Mike Broderick 's promotion , but as The Bookseller is a journal of record I would like to make it clear that it was only following my resignation that the position of group home sales director was created at Random House . |
| 8 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I found collecting watercolours so rewarding and interesting that I 'm slowly turning my hobby into a part-time business , ’ she says . |
| 10 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 11 | He 'd never have sunk to this if he was actually trying to sell one of his plays . |
| 12 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 13 | This is adequate if one is simply trying to calculate who is receiving certain benefits , such as old-age pensions , from official sources , but if we are seeking a realistic conception of who is and who is not a dependant or a net contributor to the economy in a broader sense such definitions are not helpful ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 13 ) . |
| 14 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 15 | dump trucks there they know they 're over five years old and they 're still working . |
| 16 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 17 | ‘ Our son was only a year old and I was still feeling pretty asexual . |
| 18 | she said I was n't four years old and she was still working in the box office . |
| 19 | And what we do with the eyebrows , we do n't just use a pair of tweezers we actually use wax , so if you 've got quite a lot of hair underneath your brow , we never take from above the brow , just below , if you 've got quite a lot of hair , it can be painful if you 're just using tweezers , so what we do now we use a little bit of hot wax , which is pink , so we put some wax under the brow , either side , let the wax erm , cool and set , and then pull the wax off . |
| 20 | AT&T could find such co-operation elusive if it was also competing with them . |
| 21 | It 's either the job or something means they 've got ta go away or they ca n't afford , they ca n't sell them so they I do n't know if that would make your income different if you were still paying a mortgage . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got to be rated doubtful but I 'm still hoping , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 24 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 25 | They might also have been superfluous because he was now saying he had succeeded on his own . |
| 26 | your previous home is empty because you are permanently living in a hospital , residential or nursing home . |
| 27 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 28 | Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it . |
| 29 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 30 | I was quite interested 'cos we 're actually doing a book on the history of anatomy at the moment , but there was , it was , again that was a nice little theme in the middle of everything else . |