Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [noun] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , noticing that Mark was still seated , gazing abstractedly at the screen , she sat down again . |
| 2 | Scott asked , noticing that Gregson was still gazing at Carol . |
| 3 | The routine for rigging and de-rigging is usually passed on by word of mouth , or is self-taught . |
| 4 | His extraordinary achievements of discovery , surveying and collecting were not acknowledged in his lifetime . |
| 5 | While Clegg holds back from suggesting that structure is socio-culturally determined , it is worth considering firstly whether the type of initiative described by Buchanan will be limited by the absence of the factors Clegg describes as contributing to Japan 's ‘ post modernity ’ . |
| 6 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 7 | Sometimes , however , a sharp shock is required to signal the extent of the adjustment eventually required and the government 's commitment to seeing that adjustment is actually made . |
| 8 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 9 | Angela got up my nose as usual on this point over lunch , banging on about the importance of seeing that Ministers were properly informed and by the right people . |
| 10 | The two men looked at each other , the senior officer accepting that Duncan was about to enter a more serious and dangerous assignment , whatever it was . |
| 11 | Nina hesitated , then , obviously realising that Rachel was n't going to move until she had an answer , she said , ‘ Apparently someone saw you swimming with him … ’ |
| 12 | Believing that people were always like we are , they just did n't understand themselves as well as we do , leads to dangerous historical inaccuracies . |
| 13 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |
| 14 | Watch out , too , for sales staff or reps who encourage you to ‘ buy now ’ , implying that prices are about to go up on April 5 . |
| 15 | Support is provided for super VGA users and facilities for image smoothing and cropping are also provided . |
| 16 | Unfortunately aptitude for singing and acting was not regarded as important . |
| 17 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 18 | I looked down in some wonderment at the shiny blacktop , therefore , nevertheless noting that unevennesses were already manifesting themselves . |
| 19 | Othon Pinheiro da Silva , and the chairman of the National Commission for Nuclear Energy ( CNEN ) , Rex Nazaré Alves , were quoted in the daily O Globo of April 9 , 1989 , as confirming that Brazil was now producing uranium enriched to 20 per cent ( regarded as the threshold of nuclear weapons technology ) . |
| 20 | Instead , they are looking at ways of minimising syndicates ' cash calls on members — by waiting until claims are actually paid , for instance . |
| 21 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 22 | Aids researchers are now investigating if HIV is somehow triggering the suicide response of protective white blood cells , stripping the body of immunity . |
| 23 | Wondering whether English was still taught in schools , she commented on her 114th birthday : ‘ Many of the people I hear on the telephone do n't even know how to speak the language properly . ’ |
| 24 | They were wondering whether Gloucester were about to throw it all away . |
| 25 | Development work of this kind is the epitome of an ‘ enabling role ’ , providing that term is not defined in a very restricted way ; it can actively support a consumer-responsive , mixed economy of welfare . |
| 26 | Ward Sister was still complaining that children were not allowed to see the patients unattended . |
| 27 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 28 | Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end . |
| 29 | Answers given by the forty women in the sample to questions about work tasks suggest that certain characteristics of housework may be more or less uniformly experienced as dissatisfying while others are potentially rewarding . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |