Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And DM shoes — I do n't wear them , but a lot of my friends do , and you ca n't help noticing that they 're much better made than the shoes for girls , they last so much longer . |
| 2 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 3 | He then sent a counter-embassy to Charles ( in the autumn of 772 ) , explaining that he was not unlawfully retaining those lands claimed by the Pope on behalf of the Exarchate of Ravenna , as the claim was false . |
| 4 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't know he was sulking if he was n't there , would I ? ’ said Constance . |
| 6 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
| 7 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 8 | Because God does not require reminding that we were just as good Jews without ostentation . |
| 9 | However , his distressed natural fabrics are an eerily beautiful choice for the contemporary aesthete , proving that it 's not always necessary for fashion designers to be timelords too . |
| 10 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 11 | Two patients had very high insulin concentrations before starting treatment ( 161 and 213 mU/l ) , suggesting that they were not adequately fasted . |
| 12 | Contrary to some of the conclusions drawn from social scientific research suggesting that it is primarily home or family backgrounds that determines the level of educational performance , Edmonds proceeds to identify those characteristics of effective schools delivering marked improvements in children 's educational achievements . |
| 13 | I also remember that on that occasion some cautious , niggly comments circulated , suggesting that it was somehow out of order to rejoice in this magnificent sound . |
| 14 | When Modigliani was working , Zbo could not resist peeping through the door once or twice to watch , with the excuse of seeing that everything was all right . |
| 15 | I also wonder , seeing that I am not too old in the tooth , how many other wartime fishing kids are still around and as fishing daft as ever . |
| 16 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 17 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 18 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |
| 19 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 20 | It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves . |
| 21 | Realising that it is far too late in her life to expect her to do more than make an effort to modify this trait in her character , you should see if you can direct it away from the home . |
| 22 | But , realising that it was n't very good manners to sit there bemoaning her lot , she made a huge attempt to get over her disappointment , and trotted out lightly , ‘ Oh well , perhaps it 's fortunate that I find Mariánské Láznë quite an enchanting place . ’ |
| 23 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 24 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 25 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 26 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 27 | So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art . |
| 28 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 29 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 30 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |