Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.

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1 Postclassical criminology embraces the relativity of criminal definitions — though without necessarily accepting that they are , or have been , as randomly selective as interactionism sometimes seemed to suggest .
2 Especially seeing as we 're we 're moving away from the with the with the four to six progression for careers officers , we 're moving away from continued assessment post , part two .
3 ‘ But I do n't suppose she 'll be doing much painting while I 'm here . ’
4 I have to say that I find something quite extraordinary in the spectacle of an Opposition Front-Bench spokesman apparently complaining that we are to make a potential 400,000 pensioners better off .
5 Our alternative is straightforward , and meets this objection , and we are not only asking that it be used in all cases , only those where the result would otherwise be patently unjust .
6 and maybe it is n't you that do the visit , it 's somebody else who 's , who 's being paid to do it , but you may be responsible for exercising professional judgment about whether that 's the appropriate thing that should be happening and perhaps assessing whether they 're doing it properly .
7 Perhaps also under this heading might come an increase in complaining : people find themselves becoming self-centred and self-justifying in conversations and perhaps feeling that they are becoming boring ( and often are ) .
8 Just proving that you are right and they are wrong will lose the election for you .
9 Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much .
10 I 'm just wondering if you 're over egging the pudding there .
11 There should be such a requirement in Britain , instead of just relying that we are about these orders er on the o o on the er auditors er them that that that the the themselves .
12 I was just thinking that we 're doing rather well with one or two steady accounts . ’
13 As with other defectors , the glory went to Golitsin 's head and he was soon proposing that he be allowed to establish a world-wide intelligence research organisation with unlimited funds so that he could play out his fantasies against the KGB .
14 Out of the entire proceedings came just one plaintive comment : ‘ Why is it always raining when we are ready to go home ? ’ .
15 And the finest part of the arrangement is this , that the members of this money aristocracy can take the shortest road through the middle of all the labouring districts to their places of business without ever seeing that they are in the midst of the grimy misery that lurks to the right and the left .
16 You can touch 70 on the straight , the adrenalin 's still going and there are plenty of bones you can break at that speed .
17 William Davis , Chairman of the British Tourist Authority , says overseas visitors are still coming but they 're trading down and looking for bargains .
18 I have to say there was one piece information I picked up yesterday asking and we 're talking about the rural areas I think in this discussion , the rural viability , rather then er urban .
19 Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ?
20 One driver told the interviewer : ‘ I 'm always thinking that they 're sat back in the office thinking ‘ Where has he got to ’ , and it puts you on edge so I always drive faster in a company car because time is against me . ’
21 This must be not only encouraging but also perturbing as we are only able to accept a small number for tuition .
22 Please send contributions direct to the office at Epsom , clearly stating that they are for this fund .
23 Accordingly the library sent 47 transparencies with a delivery note clearly requiring that they be returned by March 19 .
24 Yet apart from the obvious general fact that there is still insufficient concern about process evaluation and that there is a regrettable tendency for people to embark upon long and costly courses of action without carefully considering whether they are necessary or possible , there remain two major issues to cause concern in the countries I visited .
25 But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents !
26 Many well-intentioned people , including some doctors , still recommend alcohol , albeit in moderation , for a variety of conditions and complaints , giving the impression that there might be positive advantages in a small drink , and tacitly suggesting that there are no dangers .
27 Within all the social services , but especially within education , it is often necessary to argue for increased access to the material resource of the service while simultaneously suggesting that there are aspects of the service , particularly the ideology transmitted by it , which one deplores ( see Sections I and IV ) .
28 You know that 's all now going if you 're just talking about the flats area .
29 And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ?
30 Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem .
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