Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments centred on scheduling , with Serbia and Montenegro insisting that referendums should take place in each republic at the same time and with the same questions , Croatia announcing that it had already scheduled its referendum for May 19 , Macedonia asking for a postponement of the deadline to mid-June , and Bosnia-Hercegovina suggesting that the referendum should take place in two stages . |
| 2 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 3 | He scanned the print , seeing that it echoed more or less exactly the story Swansborough had just told him , then turned his attention to the photograph alongside — three people , obviously dressed for leisure . |
| 4 | In another direction , P&W plans to enter the facilities management market , believing that it sits well with the company 's annual report and corporate finance activities . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect it 's because I 'm writing and it takes longer , ’ Maggie confessed with a shrug . |
| 6 | Astrology can not be allowed as a serious contribution to living because it fails empirically in relation to the natural world , and could be foolish , or dangerous , in political and economic affairs . |
| 7 | Tears filled her eyes as the truth danced before her , but they ebbed without spilling as it danced away again . |
| 8 | Straightforward electronic testing of the assembly , that is , seeing if it does all the things it should , is slow , costly and may still fail to reveal some imperfections . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I do n't want you two gossiping about me , ’ said Comfort , her lazily amused voice sharpening until it sounded almost vicious . |
| 10 | ‘ They was saying in the grocer 's today , the river 'll be flooding if it gets much worse . |
| 11 | But the Nikkei Industrial Daily sounds a note of warning for NEC : there are two pitfalls for the company with the current order , it says : the sheer difficulty of running a development project to create the mainframe software that makes up the ‘ Fourth Online System ’ — people involved with the development of Third Online Systems predicted the end of such enormous projects ; and the danger of overlooking the trend towards downsizing because it devotes too much time and too many resources on the project . |
| 12 | How fast was car A going when it turned right ? |
| 13 | Rincewind found that he was now hanging onto the end of a tongue of bark and fibre , lengthening as it peeled away from the tree . |
| 14 | Mrs Pember Reeves was ambivalent on the issue , commenting that it depended largely on whether the accommodation was above or below ground and on the absolute minimum that was allowed for food . |
| 15 | That is not bad considering that it spends so much of its time pulling a boat around . |
| 16 | The impact of modern technology is probably of profound importance , providing as it has relatively cheap information storage on film and communication equipment ( video and newspapers ) . |
| 17 | Fingerspelling as it exists today consists of a direct alphabetic representation of the language as it would be written down . |
| 18 | To stop it from sucking because it dissolves too well It 's like you in there drinking drinking er coke out of a straw if you you suck enough It 'll all end up in your mouth . |
| 19 | On Sept. 24 the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz , justified the detention of the team , saying that it had wrongfully seized personnel records . |
| 20 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 21 | The order , issued at the end of talks between IAEA and Iraqi officials in Vienna on March 20-25 , was described as " unfair " by the chief Iraqi negotiator , Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id , who had reportedly argued against Al-Atheer 's destruction , saying that it had originally been conceived as a civilian facility and should be allowed to continue operating as such . |
| 22 | Doreen , loyal to her role of concubine , had tried to cheer him up by saying that it had never been so good . |
| 23 | Law ( b ) is more falsifiable than law ( a ) , which is tantamount to saying that it claims more , that it is the better law . |
| 24 | I ca n't go running cos it hurts too much . |
| 25 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 26 | But it welcomed FRED4 , saying because it contains more detailed proposals its provisions should be used to override FRED3 and , indeed , there should be a requirement for all transactions to be interpreted in the light of the draft off balance sheet standard . |
| 27 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 28 | The question , coming as it did unexpectedly at the end of her monologue , disconcerted me . |
| 29 | The gunfire and noise in the woods had been lessening as it drew nearer and the targets became fewer . |
| 30 | The data will be retrieved from the database , assuming that it has already been collected and stored . |