Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |
| 2 | If a person writes a book or magazine article denying that he has committed any crime , are his words to be interpreted as his opinion regarding the crime ? |
| 3 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 4 | Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 5 | There are some good points — like explaining that everyone knows how to keep their balance and that normal balance should be used when skiing . |
| 6 | Harriet 's explaining that she gives a service , something about helping people realize their dreams . |
| 7 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 8 | But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone . |
| 9 | ‘ We would n't dream of going back , ’ he asserts , revealing that he has seen ‘ really substantial increases in sales ’ on books that have been denetted . |
| 10 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 11 | A double page spread appeared in the Mail , featuring Beattie 's real mother , Zelma , in her house in Hull , and revealing that she prefers to use Mercury as it 's cheaper . |
| 12 | Moreover , the fact that he fails to realise the ironic force of the question , and rushes into affirming that he does know the Queen is ample demonstration of the extent to which , beneath his posturing , he has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation . |
| 13 | His hobby is walking and he plans to take up bike riding . |
| 14 | So , if he was going , if he , he 's walking and he breaks into , a breaks into a trot , |
| 15 | I know perfectly well , but I 'm not explaining if she does n't know what I 'm talking about . |
| 16 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 17 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 18 | In a city without electricity or television and with only limited access to radio , the newspaper is the only source of information as to what parts of the city are dangerous , what is happening and who has died . |
| 19 | Of course although we 're talking about dying and nobody wants to think about dying let's remind ourselves it 's the only certainty in this life . |
| 20 | So in fact I 've always concentrated and what people have wanted is some specific direction namely wills dying and what happens if you have n't done something about it . |
| 21 | I 've learnt a lot , my job depends on me driving and it 's made me realise how much I can drink , how much I ca n't drink , what I can drink and realising about road accidents . |
| 22 | ‘ Spends hours , usually late at night , gasping and wheezing until it seems he 'll collapse … |
| 23 | it is n't , it 's Bryony 's space suit , give her , otherwise she 'll be squeaking cos she wants her own , here 's yours James , you have your own , give that one to Bryony , here 's your space suit Bryony , you 'll need this if you 're going to the moon |
| 24 | I know you are funny sometimes , and some Bonnie just looks at you and she starts laughing and he has n't even said anything or something . |
| 25 | It was emptying but it 's started filling up again . |
| 26 | It 's difficult these days , when he talks so seriously , to imagine Steve Martin laughing while he works . |
| 27 | We must stop this from happening before it does . |
| 28 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 29 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 30 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |