Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 3 | All procedures for objective setting , planning , time keeping or whatever are agreed in the light of the task to be done and the situation . |
| 4 | A lot of people , including many members of the press , thought that Allan was going to win , were almost praying that he was going to win . |
| 5 | ‘ It will , ’ said Bodie , praying that he was right . |
| 6 | With every atom of her being she was praying that he was . |
| 7 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 8 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 9 | If all the cases that attract attention , because they are argued in important appellate courts before public scrutiny , are occasions on which judges are scrupulous in denying that they are serving the goal of protected expectations through their decisions , this can hardly do much to reinforce the public 's faith in that ideal . |
| 10 | Rollin is also severe on the sophistry of the late medieval Catholic Church in sanctioning the trial and often excommunication of countless creatures ( and the then , if feasible , hanging , flaying , burying alive , burning , or otherwise executing them ) whilst denying that they were free agents . |
| 11 | In addition , if in this century racism has become the prototypical instantiation of the concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , then similar justificatory strategies can be expected , when people deny racism and prejudice : in denying that one is racist , one is denying that one is prejudiced , and vice versa . |
| 12 | In addition , if in this century racism has become the prototypical instantiation of the concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , then similar justificatory strategies can be expected , when people deny racism and prejudice : in denying that one is racist , one is denying that one is prejudiced , and vice versa . |
| 13 | This alternative picture involves denying that there is a coherent materialist alternative to the Cartesian ‘ private theatre ’ view of the mind ; but it also involves placing the attack on the Cartesian picture in a wider context . |
| 14 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 15 | But Gray and Gallistel are merely denying that there is any certainty in the selection . |
| 16 | Or the line could be denying that there is any contradiction at all between truth and feigning ( poetry , Sidney claimed in his Defence , could make true fictions ) . |
| 17 | My Lords there is no point in the Government denying that there is such a danger , pressure of precisely this character has been applied on chief officers of police outside our own shores . |
| 18 | There is no point denying that there was a ‘ free fight ’ in Bean Street between the Powers ' and Jenkins ' families , with men rolling on the ground . |
| 19 | The other ( modern ) extreme , that of denying that there was such a thing as Carthaginian imperialism , is equally unsatisfying : from Plato onwards , Greeks spoke of Carthaginian eparcheia , a compound of arche = rule or empire , in Sicily ; and ( he Carthaginians imposed tribute , phoros , on Greek cities which fell into their power ( e.g. Diod. xiii.59 : Selinus ) . |
| 20 | There was also a bit about Lesley Silver denying that there was a link between Battys sale and a 2.5M offer to buy back Elland Road from the council . |
| 21 | She was born small , she was born fat , and there 's no denying that she 's no beauty , but her face has got something . |
| 22 | In his libel action seeking aggravated damages , Donovan claimed he suffered serious injury to his professional and personal reputation , considerable distress and embarrassment and that the article implied he was guilty of gross hypocrisy and deceit by denying that he was homosexual . |
| 23 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 24 | " You 're Hannibal Hayes , " the voice of a sheriff roared from the television drama , and the voice of the cowboy quietly retorted , denying that he was . |
| 25 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |
| 26 | Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now . |
| 27 | Treaty language suggesting applicability to all States has to be measured against pronouncements denying that it was the intention of the signatories to create third party rights . |
| 28 | In the Netherlands on Nov. 14 reports quoted Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers as having admitted to the existence of a secret organization in the Netherlands but denying that it was supervised by NATO . |
| 29 | On April 29 , Reuter reported that UNITA had ordered its forces to drive government troops out of the area , while denying that it was launching a general offensive . |
| 30 | In January he was in hospital , hotly denying that anything was really wrong with him . |