Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But Gray and Gallistel are merely denying that there is any certainty in the selection . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was born small , she was born fat , and there 's no denying that she 's no beauty , but her face has got something . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now . |
| 13 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 14 | Of course , there is always the milkman : one of society 's front-line social workers , who has saved the lives of countless elderly people by noticing that there is something amiss and alerting neighbours or the police . |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 16 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 17 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 18 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too . |
| 19 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 20 | Equipped by Morag Hood with an accent that sounds strangely reminiscent of Edward Fox as the Duke of Windsor , Vivien stops Walter in his tracks by announcing that she is pregnant . |
| 21 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 22 | For men , the shroud is made exactly the same as the above for women , excepting that there is no gathering in the front . |
| 23 | If the aggressiveness and bullying continues , though , make your disapproval plain by explaining that it 's naughty and that you 're disappointed in her . |
| 24 | This is usually done in order to reassure the patient ( e.g. explaining that it is customary for a person 's interest in sex to be impaired when depressed ) . |
| 25 | In one evocative passage , during a discussion of animism and the development of automata , he refers to a six-year-old girl showing her doll how a computer works and explaining that it is a friend . |
| 26 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 27 | You will think me discourteous , but perhaps I may excuse myself by explaining that it is the discourtesy of grief . ’ |
| 28 | A good way of checking that there is no unnecessary movement is to kick the toe of the boot against a carpeted stair riser . |
| 29 | Many of these systems operate with no human effort or skill apart from switching the equipment on and checking that there is sufficient paper in the computer printer or plotter and so on . |
| 30 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |