Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Because of our late start and leisurely progress , the light is thickening as we stumble along the forgotten stretch of ridge between Bwlch Ciliau . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As soon as you get stuck into the Met Office 's weather offerings , the meter is running and you need to watch the bills . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The phone is ringing as I come through the door of my office . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The men had been dead for at least a week and speculation is mounting that they had suffocated after locking themselves in the container . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 22 | ‘ The man is saying that you keep the noise down , and I am saying that you do what the man says . ’ |
| 23 | His hobby is walking and he plans to take up bike riding . |
| 24 | Provision of materials and expert personnel is only part of the requirement ; teachers need opportunities to pool ideas and programmes , share one another 's resources on a personal advice basis , find compatible people to whom to turn for educational and emotional support , meet together in courses and workshops at a variety of levels , often very informally , and find the unusual people or collections in the community that the Exeter project is noting and which have played such a useful part in the work of Devon schools . |
| 25 | Herb Nahapiet is saying that we have now , at least in the more forward looking and enlightened niches , reached the people stage . |
| 26 | Strictly speaking , much of this walk is trespassing since it does n't follow recognised footpaths , but the land is rough grazing and wo n't suffer from the passage of a few feet . |
| 27 | My hand is shaking as I write . |
| 28 | The doctor is saying that he had to continue treatment as a matter of legal obligation . |
| 29 | Turning points in relationships , too , are often mapped out in this way — a quarrel , a meeting , a reconciliation may mark the moment of ‘ conception ’ ; one knows that a new phase is beginning but it does not become openly apparent until this nine-month span has past . |
| 30 | Well like that new advert for the Rover he says do n't , I keep thinking my back my back tailgate 's flapping or I keep hearing , you keep hearing creaking do n't you ? |