Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll deal with that , ’ said Anthony , noticing that there were tears in Comfort 's big grey eyes , ‘ but I want you to stay here with her . |
| 3 | A self-appointed leader , he made the rules without being explicit about them or even explaining that there were rules . |
| 4 | The Greeks did very little during the winter because of bad weather but each spring they were back on the water , checking that everything was nautika or boatworthy . |
| 5 | At the same time Gascoigne 's military adviser , Brigadier A. K. Ferguson , submitted a report revealing that there was divergence between different sections of GHQ as to the treatment of Japan . |
| 6 | As an aside , the need to drawn up a will becomes particularly pressing if there are children to be considered , and do n't forget that marriage revokes the will of either partner , unless that is , it was drawn up in anticipation of the wedding . |
| 7 | Maggie , 37 , said : ‘ We feel very sad about this and wish it was n't happening but we are friends and always will be . |
| 8 | Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me … |
| 9 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 10 | In gall bladder and colonic , epithelia , intracellular [ Na + ] is maintained virtually constant despite varying rates of NaCl absorption , suggesting that there is parellel regulation of basolateral Na + /K + ATPase . |
| 11 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 12 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) was correct in suggesting that there are powers under clause 12 if future arrangements are inadequate . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Hall reveals through his examination of Colnaghi documents that Berenson 's recommendations at times ‘ follow almost word for word , Gutekunst 's own letters to Berenson ’ , suggesting that it is time for a re-examination of the role of dealers as well as the more famous advisers in influencing taste . |
| 15 | The predicted size of this fragment was 1076 bp , however , the full length fragment was not discernable in the other cell lines tested suggesting that it 's occurrence is rare . |
| 16 | It seemed to Annie that no sooner had Tamar arrived in the market hall , than Goodison was by her side , suggesting that it was time they started off for home . |
| 17 | Dame Sybil earned her everlasting gratitude by suggesting that it was time she retire . |
| 18 | It means accepting that we are sons and servants of the Creator Who made the world . |
| 19 | Searle asserts this , while accepting that we are machines . |
| 20 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 21 | She accused the President of carrying out a " constitutional coup d'etat " , hinting that he was party to a conspiracy involving sections of the Army , especially military intelligence . |
| 22 | Then followed a speech in her presence hinting that it was time Australia went it alone . |
| 23 | Remember that many women have been sexually active with men before realising that they were lesbians . |
| 24 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 25 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 26 | He could just nod , or sigh , or do anything , in fact , which Pooh would rightly take to correlate with Rabbit 's believing that there 's honey . |
| 27 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 28 | In all , identifying Ulf as the son of Ragnvald seems at least as plausible as believing that he was Cnut 's brother-in-law Ulf . |
| 29 | Do n't fool yourself into believing that it is politics , ’ he wrote . |
| 30 | We played in Guernsey and this man came after us waving a stick and shouting that we were heretics and ‘ Thou shalt not be a false Messiah ’ . |