Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their past experience enabled them to produce and maintain their own equipment , and operate it with competence , but the fact that none had themselves initiated any of the significant developments in filmmaking or projects was an early indication of their unpreparedness for serious competition . |
| 2 | Maura was praying that Terry was not about . |
| 3 | The Iranian Oil Ministry was reported in late October to have adopted an aggressive policy on crude oil production and prices after rejecting a 3,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) quota which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had sought to impose on Iran at its meeting in September [ see p. 39120 ] ; the Middle East Economic Digest on Oct. 30 quoted the Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh , as saying that Iranian output during October would average 3,800,000 bpd , but as denying that Iran was seeking to destabilize the international market . |
| 4 | Here they take an intransigent line , denying that Wittgenstein was at all impressed by such questions . |
| 5 | Then , noticing that Mark was still seated , gazing abstractedly at the screen , she sat down again . |
| 6 | Scott asked , noticing that Gregson was still gazing at Carol . |
| 7 | Martha paused with her , noticing that Hyacinth was sweating heavily and her skin , normally plump and smooth , looked oddly withered and sunken around her eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ Outlawing the defence of following superior orders , for one , ’ said David , noticing that Julia was beginning to look tired . |
| 9 | Constance had reassured them , or so she hoped : she had tried to alleviate their suspicions by explaining that Barbs was just like that . |
| 10 | He presented Chester with a severely edited version of the truth , making no mention of Estabrook 's murder plot , but explaining that Jude was ill and had requested his presence . |
| 11 | Modern excavations are revealing that Mallia was a substantial city , extending all the way to the shore ( Figure 24 ) . |
| 12 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 13 | Posi obliged , revealing that Fraxilly was a small human planet , a member of SenFed for less than three hundred years , remote and poor and backward . |
| 14 | Nearly two months later the patient complained of itching and cholestasis was diagnosed . |
| 15 | ‘ Ginger ’ Hale was driving and Barnes was sitting between Robert Henley and myself in the back seat . |
| 16 | David was driving and Shaun was leaning over . |
| 17 | Consequently a great deal of fulling , spinning , weaving and dyeing was carried out at domestic level , with plants probably being deliberately cultivated to provide dyes . |
| 18 | ‘ Very clever , ’ Lacuna said , without checking whether Britta was listening . |
| 19 | She stretched her arms out in front of her like a cat , proving that Springsteen was still behind on points . |
| 20 | Furlong is correct , however , in suggesting that anxiety was rife , and because of this and establishment obsessions with a belief in a statistical truth we were constantly being asked to give numerical estimates of how many there were ‘ out there ’ who were ‘ fixing ’ , ‘ using the weed ’ , or ‘ dropping acid ’ . |
| 21 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 22 | Screenwriter Hart moves the story into the 20th century by suggesting that Peter was an orphan taken to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in the mid-1960s by Wendy Darling , played by Maggie Smith , and then adopted by an American family . |
| 23 | The original suspension was imposed after the CSM considered evidence suggesting that Halcion was associated with a much higher frequency of side effects that other sleeping medications ( Chem . |
| 24 | In 1929 Kenneth Macpherson talked of the ‘ doleful and disastrous consequences ’ of censorship and dramatically made his point by suggesting that censorship was ‘ England 's Prohibition Law ’ . |
| 25 | There is no mention on the regulation of prices or of a method of arbitration in the event of dispute , suggesting that commerce was regulated by custom or the social mores of gift-giving , and had not reached a sufficiently organised scale for legal controls to be necessary ; the earliest hint of such controls is to be found in King Ine 's laws , in which traders were to make their transactions before witnesses or the king 's reeve . |
| 26 | Mayo 's concern is primarily with religious instruction , but he is by no means unique in suggesting that learning was good for a servant . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Mike was once a member of Delta ? ’ |
| 28 | Pine stumps on Lewis date from 4800 — 3900 B.P. , suggesting that pine was a late arrival there . |
| 29 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 30 | Seth led Joey to the van , but the teenager , seeing that Seth was too drunk to drive , took the wheel himself . |