Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 2 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 3 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 4 | If you do aim to encourage them to use viewing facilities and if you produce any guidelines or worksheet support , try to find unobtrusive ways of checking whether they are used . |
| 5 | One example of this is the discounts offered to tenants purchasing local authority houses : these were altered in 1984 when sales showed signs of flagging and they were increased on flats in 1986 because few buyers could be found for flats . |
| 6 | Bungle and guitarist Graham now manage to animatedly throw themselves into proceedings instead of looking like they 're queueing in a pie shop . |
| 7 | Finally Rose of Lima also had the great consolation of believing that she was doing a socially useful job — and there were not many of these available for women in the early seventeenth century . |
| 8 | However exciting his paper , his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse . |
| 9 | The right wing hated Ted and the scenes of rejoicing when he was beaten in the leadership contest by Margaret Thatcher left me feeling very sad . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Small points again , like accuracy of feeding when it is needed , become natural to them because they are constantly working at it . |
| 12 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 13 | Is that a nice way of saying that there 's going to be a lot of fighting , is that what they 've been planning ? |
| 14 | When his book Early Conversation Pictures appeared , Evelyn took what Henry James would have called ‘ the rash and insensate step ’ of saying that he was enjoying it . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | It was n't emotionalism ; it was the joy of knowing that they were forgiven people , made new through the gift of salvation and the gift of the Spirit . |
| 17 | I had gone to Bletchley in excitement and trepidation , had been very content there , in congenial company , and with the satisfaction of knowing that I was employed on work essential to the war effort . |
| 18 | BUT IF THE CARPET IS ELGIN VELVET , YOU HAVE THE COMFORT OF KNOWING THAT YOU 'RE CHOOSING THE VERY BEST FROM STODDARD TEMPLETON , WEAVERS OF FINE CARPETS SINCE 1839 . |
| 19 | Look how easy it is — these 12 exercises will keep you feeling young and lithe , full of vitality and the satisfaction of knowing that you are taking care of your body . |
| 20 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 21 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 22 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 23 | Her alarm , it was patently obvious to her now , stemmed from a basic instinct of knowing that she was going to end up hurting inside . |
| 24 | As far as Maxim could see nobody followed George through the fading damp light back to Albany , although there was no way to be sure and less way of knowing if he was followed himself not over such a short and crowded distance . |
| 25 | This was because there are so many old Spanish customs within the company and rigidities of thinking which take a hell of a lot of changing when you 're talking about people . |
| 26 | At the moment of writing , Labour seems to have lumbered itself with a system in which thode entitled to nominate — Labour MPs — will have no reliable means of guessing whether they are wasting their nominations on a no-hoper . |
| 27 | How can the Government conceivably justify the untruth of claiming that they are maintaining an aid programme when , according to their own figures , they have halved that provided by Labour ? |
| 28 | Only when things go wrong is the veil of privacy which normally conceals the workings of married life lifted , and usually in the hope of discovering that what is happening in one marriage is not , after all , so dissimilar from what is happening in others . |
| 29 | Of watching as I 'm watched , in a bugged cell |
| 30 | There is no way of telling whether they are cast in support of any particular policy or not . |