Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 2 | On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states . |
| 3 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 4 | ‘ Well if it eats half as well as a salmon , I shall be 'appy , ’ grinned Lofty , subtly reminding the others that it was he who had found the fish . |
| 5 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 6 | These frustrations will pass when we adopt a very positive approach and with practice become more and more adept at using the ball when it is in our possession . |
| 7 | If you are not using the swimfeeder as it should be used then you may as well tackle up with a link-leger and feed by hand . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe they will make moves to close the school within months , using the argument that it is in chaos . ’ |
| 9 | They will want strong churches to reproduce themselves to make this easy rather than working against it , enjoying the fact that it will sometimes mean breaking through the parish boundaries for the greater good of enabling all of the people in all the parishes to hear all the gospel . |
| 10 | Anglican chant is a distinctive way of singing the Psalms and it would be a pity if it were lost altogether in the parishes . |
| 11 | For ma , accepting the fact that it will rain today seems as difficult as coming to terms with the amputation of a limb . |
| 12 | Further , there are sometimes delays in repairing the machine when it breaks down , although generally it is quite reliable . |
| 13 | The new country rejected the new name Azania on the grounds that it had slave origins — and preferring the sense that it was a vital part of the continent as a whole . |
| 14 | The verbs seem and appear deliberately withhold applicability ( thus permitting but not demanding the inference that it is inappropriate ) , as does the verb act where it can be taken that the property does not apply . |
| 15 | He was familiar with his own record of defying the court and it has never been suggested on his behalf that the sentence was other than fully justified . |
| 16 | Something 's eating the profits and it 's not entered here . |
| 17 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
| 18 | For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went . |
| 19 | If he is slow , he may feel a slight but unpleasant jolt , catching the hammer as it falls . |
| 20 | Although he acknowledges that the moisture content is high , he says the extra drying costs are offset by catching the crop before it sheds any ears . |
| 21 | He was seeing the Rorim as it should be , without the threat of ruin hanging over it — though tomorrow these same people would be stinting themselves to eke out their supplies through the winter . |
| 22 | But it was a mistake to mention actual days , he had escaped from them temporarily , seeing the border as it would be , not the work involved , he was into summer and autumn , not today . |
| 23 | The whole can be made available in terms of ‘ live viewing ’ — the audience seeing the programme when it is transmitted — or ‘ consolidated viewing ’ , which adds in the people who record the programme and view it later on their VCR . |
| 24 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 25 | More effective forms of lithotripsy offer the prospect of a reduction in the present rate of basket impaction of 0.2% , and can also be useful in resolving the problem when it arises . |
| 26 | We 'd be up there challenging the scum if it was n't for his lack of goals . |
| 27 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where livestock belonging to any person strays on to land in the ownership or occupation of another and — ( a ) damage is done by the livestock to the land or to any property on it which is in the ownership or possession of the other person ; or ( b ) any expenses are reasonably incurred by that other person in keeping the livestock while it can not be restored to the person to whom it belongs or while it is detained in pursuance of section 7 of [ the ] Act , or in ascertaining to whom it belongs ; the person to whom the livestock belongs is liable for the damage or expenses , except as otherwise provided by [ the ] Act . ’ |
| 28 | Nigel pulled the offending tracksuit out of his case and demonstrated , pinging the elastic till it finally broke . |
| 29 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 30 | Her manipulated images of masked Madonnas are made using a series of complex chemical processes ; she experiments technically , working and reworking the image until it has exactly the right feeling , tone or resonance . |