Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must emphasise that this paper is only attempting to deal with one aspect of Irigaray 's thought and will inevitably touch on issues that I wo n't have space to develop . |
| 2 | Another case in which good relationships would have helped was that of an attention seeking woman who had spent most of her life in hostels and was constantly getting struck off general practitioners ' lists . |
| 3 | If the fish is to be saved , the abstraction will have to be cut back significantly , at a time when the state is only beginning to emerge from seven years of drought . |
| 4 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 5 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |
| 6 | Erm this is an effort to do something , the last , I am sure the sterling efforts have been undertaking by Welwyn and Hatfield District Council in this consortium , you know where 's the beef , where is the evidence that somethings been done , this is merely asking to look along this line to see if anything can be done . |
| 7 | It 's bad enough having to rely on old daddy Reagan and Maggie Thatcher . |
| 8 | The CNAA was constantly having to negotiate on uncertain frontiers , and interpret and define forms of higher education for which there were no clear precedents or guidelines . |
| 9 | In this way , the infant is not only learning to communicate with another person , but also to communicate about something . |
| 10 | We do not know whether all learning depends on similar processes , or whether , in higher animals , it also involves the creation or loss of connections . |
| 11 | So many variables play a part — sunlight , wind , rain , snow and frost all affecting ferreting in one way or another . |
| 12 | He had stood in the queue at Heathrow , a very new Condor on his back , eyeing others who were obviously preparing to go to warmer places than we were . |
| 13 | It 's bad enough trying to fly with unequal line lengths ; having an asymmetric kite can be most frustrating ! |
| 14 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 15 | Graham and Laidlaw remained motionless , not daring to look at each other . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ These include Government plans to charge VAT on coal , gas and electricity bills — a move which could hit the pockets of millions of older people throughout the UK , including many of the 100,000 pensioners in Northern Ireland , who are already struggling to survive on low pensions and reduced income . ’ |
| 17 | Afterwards they stood up slowly , not wanting to part from such intimacy , but beginning to feel chilly now the warmth of the story was over . |
| 18 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 19 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 20 | Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you . |
| 21 | Zukor had risked a great deal in his cover-up of evidence in the Taylor scandal , and he was not going to go through another nightmare , so he decided to have Reid put away . |
| 22 | A fine of £4,000 is certainly not going to act as any kind of deterrent to her future behaviour . |
| 23 | I 'm not going to behave like some councillors who seem to forget where they came from . |
| 24 | Amy said : 'Look , if you 're not going to help with these envelopes you might as well go and put a new washer on that tap . |
| 25 | That is not going to help in this situation . |
| 26 | The odd bar of chocolate is enjoyable for most people and is not going to result in ill health . |
| 27 | You 're not going to hide in here-all night , are you ? ’ |
| 28 | Sorry , I know you do n't understand , and you 're not going to understand on this program . |
| 29 | Elisabeth already felt herself rebuked in the presence of Fru Møller and the Colonel — over matters beyond her control — and she was not going to add to that burden of disapproval if she could avoid it ; not again . |
| 30 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |