Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
| 2 | Andy is yelling as he runs , coat-tails flapping out behind him , gloved hands outspread , his head thrown back , the ear flaps on his hat snapping and clapping like wings . |
| 3 | Because of our late start and leisurely progress , the light is thickening as we stumble along the forgotten stretch of ridge between Bwlch Ciliau . |
| 4 | that Alan 's saying and I think we 'll have to respect that with all du |
| 5 | a senior consultant in Consultancy Services , Risley , said although feelings generally were a bit mixed , ‘ I feel that we have been given a clearer picture of where AEA is heading although I expect to see a lot more changes before things settle down . ’ |
| 6 | So there is no possibility of knitting faster than the machine is scanning and you do n't have to pause at the end of a pattern repeat . |
| 7 | Well erm two families discover how the divide between north and south is narrowing and one lives at Wigan one family lives at Wigan and the other family , no er yeah the other family live at Bedford . |
| 8 | I think Laverne is exaggerating but I do n't chance a feel . |
| 9 | This lets you hide any application , whether open or minimised — great if the boss is coming and you 've got a game of solitaire on the boil . |
| 10 | If you do not recognize that the question is implying that something has been selected , you will only answer a part and not the whole of it . |
| 11 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 12 | I think the point that Mr is making if I read him correctly is that is you had an inner relief road , in fact it would siphon off traffic from the A sixty one going south from say the Killinghall bypass or relief road . |
| 13 | There is no lack of advice , much of it very useful , on how to analyse your situation , and of course there is no point in deciding where your business is going until you have actually decided with great clarity where you are now . |
| 14 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 15 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 16 | I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today . |
| 17 | Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking . |
| 18 | In fact this is what Socrates is going when he 's asked , well what do you want us to do with your body , he said you can do what you like , I wo n't be in it anyway . |
| 19 | I am grateful for that suggestion , but I am not sure which Labour party policy the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that I adopt to encourage investment . |
| 20 | I appreciate the point that my hon. Friend is making and I know of his support for museums and galleries in York and in Yorkshire . |
| 21 | As soon as you get stuck into the Met Office 's weather offerings , the meter is running and you need to watch the bills . |
| 22 | And er we intend to er capitalize er on our and indeed er makers of Highland Spring Water their market share is reducing and we intend to capture that portion . |
| 23 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 24 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 25 | I mean it 's it 's their responsibility to er prepare the local plan in the context of what the structure plan strategy as a whole is saying and I think it 's it 's necessary not to just look at this particular policy in total isolation and assume that that is going to give er what you fear to district councils the ability to nothing . |
| 26 | The phone is ringing as I come through the door of my office . |
| 27 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
| 28 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 29 | This is what Thomas S. Szasz is implying when he writes about ‘ definition ’ : ‘ In the animal kingdom , the rule is eat or be eaten ; in the human kingdom , define or be defined . |
| 30 | The sexton is complaining that he has to scrub away the unbearable smell every day , and that the church has already had to undergo several repair jobs because of the problem . |