Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [ex0] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alternative picture involves denying that there is a coherent materialist alternative to the Cartesian ‘ private theatre ’ view of the mind ; but it also involves placing the attack on the Cartesian picture in a wider context . |
| 2 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 3 | But Gray and Gallistel are merely denying that there is any certainty in the selection . |
| 4 | Or the line could be denying that there is any contradiction at all between truth and feigning ( poetry , Sidney claimed in his Defence , could make true fictions ) . |
| 5 | My Lords there is no point in the Government denying that there is such a danger , pressure of precisely this character has been applied on chief officers of police outside our own shores . |
| 6 | Of course , there is always the milkman : one of society 's front-line social workers , who has saved the lives of countless elderly people by noticing that there is something amiss and alerting neighbours or the police . |
| 7 | For men , the shroud is made exactly the same as the above for women , excepting that there is no gathering in the front . |
| 8 | A good way of checking that there is no unnecessary movement is to kick the toe of the boot against a carpeted stair riser . |
| 9 | Many of these systems operate with no human effort or skill apart from switching the equipment on and checking that there is sufficient paper in the computer printer or plotter and so on . |
| 10 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 11 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 12 | We must confirm to you at the time of booking that there is a free or reduced price holiday still available on the departure date you require . |
| 13 | It is , for example , revealing that there is no indication in either book of the Situationist commitment to political struggles in the Third World and their critique of imperialism . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a reasonable chance of it happening and there is a collective will to support it ’ , Cunningham believes . |
| 15 | Your driving down the road , and you carry on driving if there 's no cross-roads . |
| 16 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 17 | On the other hand , materialists seem to be prevented by their materialism from allowing that there is any relevant fact that BS does not know . |
| 18 | Village life is therefore not as close knit as it once was , which is common in many villages today , but nevertheless local functions held in nearby Harpham village hall are always well attended proving that there is still a sense of community in the area . |
| 19 | Four very different styles of miniature picture are displayed in this photograph , proving that there is plenty of scope for inspiration in even the smallest of designs . |
| 20 | These older cells undergo a second migration and give rise to a variety of cell types quite alien to the site at which they had arrived in their first migration , suggesting that there is a mixed population of cells at each site at the end of migration and the conditions at each site favour the growth and differentiation of specific members of the mixed population ; the others fail to flourish and presumably die . |
| 21 | The delight at the judgment which was ascribed to John Hegarty in the July issue of ACCOUNTANCY perhaps goes too far in suggesting that there is now mutual recognition of firms within the EC . |
| 22 | Saxton Bampfylde represents a more recent example of a breakaway this time from John Stork — suggesting that there is still scope for start-ups in headhunting . |
| 23 | Here we show that the carrier generates an alkalinization outside and an acidification inside glial cells , and transports anions out of the cells , suggesting that there is a carrier cycle in which two Na + accompany each glutamate anion into the cell , while one K + and one OH - ( or HCO ) are transported out . |
| 24 | Professor Hoskins was incorrect in suggesting that there is little new to say about roads . |
| 25 | In short , I am suggesting that there is more continuity than discontinuity in the development of the novel as a literary form . |
| 26 | This effect was symmetrical for the two visual fields , suggesting that there is no hemisphere difference in persistence of the icon . |
| 27 | While pluralist writers can not be interpreted as suggesting that there is a perfect or even extensive distribution of political power through the mechanism of interest participation in government decision making , — ’ what pluralists do argue is that more groups are involved in making decisions than is suggested by Marxist and elitists , who claim that a particular class or group has a monopoly of influence . |
| 28 | In using Brooke-Rose 's discussion of poetic metaphor as the basis for an analysis of how this figure works in novels she wrote in the 1960s , I am not suggesting that there is a necessary relation , historical or logical , between them . |
| 29 | By implication , we are suggesting that there is a hierarchy of places , or similarly that a particular place has a certain status in the local community . |
| 30 | Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that there is something new about a substantial majority of crime being committed by young people — that it is a phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s ? |