Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [that] [pron] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 2 | Alf is periodically nodding at his son-in-law and suggesting that he would be better off if he read the book Alf has in his hands . |
| 3 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 4 | She would just wander off ; and then later she would come to , wondering where she was and remembering that they would be angry with her again . |
| 5 | It was of some length and contained a number of obiter dicta about the obvious gravity of the crisis through which the nation had passed , the less obvious but equally searching crisis which it still faced , the dangers of living in fools ' paradises and believing that there could be play without work , the crushing burden of debt , and the responsibilities of the wealthy classes . |
| 6 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 7 | So difficult are they , in fact , that the debate usually begins and ends at the level of aphorism , with lots of commentators wringing their hands and saying that something must be done , while doctors , administrators , and others scramble to make sure that they get a bit of the action . |
| 8 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 9 | This can often be dealt with by notifying the individual of the meeting and its purpose and saying that he will be welcome to attend if he feels that he has a specific interest in the proceedings . |
| 10 | A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released . |
| 11 | I wrote to the planning officer on 10 April 1991 enclosing a copy of my earlier letter , and again on 6 July 1991 when the matter was raised in the Minutes of the Land and Properties Sub-Committee , restating the Parish Council 's views and asking that they should be involved in the discussions of the future of the site . |
| 12 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 13 | Certainly , expecting that you will suffer from jet-lag hardly helps and this becomes an argument for adopting a positive attitude to the difficulties and knowing that they can be minimized by following the advice we give later . |
| 14 | I cancelled the afternoon 's lessons and returned home in a daze , cursing the Allies and hoping that they would be better behaved if they ever came to liberate us . |
| 15 | Erm remember the hay we would be turning it w with pitchforks you know , and erm not a well goo drying day but you had to risk turning it and hoping that it 'd be dry but er it would be raining again the following day . |
| 16 | The long term significance of using fibroblasts and skin grafting will emerge if it becomes possible to use very large inserts of genes coding for hormones , with associated sequences which allow response to physiological controls : for instance , inserting the entire normal insulin gene into fibroblasts and hoping that there will be a physiological insulin response . |
| 17 | On 17 May Marshalls wrote to the debtor confirming these terms , and mentioning that he might be entitled to legal aid with regard to litigation . |
| 18 | ‘ A chef as well , ’ she said sweetly , looking up at him and thinking that he must be awfully tall because she was five-ten , and he towered above her . |