Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [subord] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |
| 2 | Small points again , like accuracy of feeding when it is needed , become natural to them because they are constantly working at it . |
| 3 | ‘ I am in favour of televising because it is going down well with my constituents … the world is paying attention ’ , said Mr David Nicholson , MP for Taunton . |
| 4 | Unless one has data from repeated surveys across time , there is no way of telling whether one is dealing with pure age effects , pure period effects or an interaction between the two , termed generation or cohort effects . |
| 5 | There is no way of telling if someone is infected by looking at them , but a special blood test declares a person negative or positive . |
| 6 | Should you acquire an adult dog from a rescue centre , it may be worth enquiring whether it is marked in this manner to ensure that the record is updated when you take possession of the dog . |
| 7 | Yet there is a danger of reading too much into petitioning unless it is given a firm context . |
| 8 | It is as stupid for a government to try to whip and cajole an entrenched profession into changing as it is to try to pull a fed-up donkey along the road by its ears . |
| 9 | You hate him for coming because he 's told you that Gerry is n't just missing , but dead . |
| 10 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 11 | Is John MOtson Eric cantona 's agent ? he cant talk about his Gallic flair without sounding like he s become sexually aroused . |
| 12 | Koraloona is 130 miles west of Sanders Island and is dangerous to shipping because it is encircled by a coral reef at times fifty miles long , marked on all Admiralty charts . |
| 13 | A speaker normally signals his/her point of departure by indicating whether s/he is making a statement , asking a question , or giving an order . |