Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here are some of the details of all winners plus an example of their work , proving that they really are the cream of the U.K. crop ! |
| 2 | Furthermore , the symptoms of even full-blown affective psychosis and schizophrenia overlap considerably , suggesting that they simply represent different ways in which a common tendency to insanity can manifest itself . |
| 3 | Although clay crystals theoretically could store the same prodigious quantities of information as DNA or laser discs can , nobody is suggesting that they ever did . |
| 4 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 5 | The two bands near 760 cm -1 and 850 cm -1 are affected only slightly in frequency by the substitution of Br for Cl , suggesting that they too are essentially deformation modes . |
| 6 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 7 | During the treason trials Tixier-Vignancour became notorious for a tactic known as ‘ the defence of blackmail ’ when he repeatedly threatened to call eminent witnesses such as General de Gaulle and the Prime Minister Michel Debre , hinting that they too were involved in criminal plots . |
| 8 | We reject outdated notions of national sovereignty , believing that they now stand in the way of common action to deal with the scourges of disease and hunger , the deterioration of the Earth 's environment and the continuing dangers of the post-Cold War world . |
| 9 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |
| 10 | Visiting valets , I have found , are often the worst offenders , aspiring as they usually do to the position of butler with some urgency . |
| 11 | Corbett smiled ; a few minutes later he wished he had n't , for he too was sick and was still trembling when they safely reached the abbey gates . |
| 12 | She looked down at her new French muslin pyjamas , the corners of her thin lips turning up in a rueful smile , wondering if the whisky stains would come out — and deciding that they probably would n't . |
| 13 | We were parked Chinese like , you know , waiting cos they normally wave to us if there 's any things comes |
| 14 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 15 | DNs demonstrated an awareness of the need for compression bandaging by reporting that they regularly applied compression to 198 ( 73 per cent ) of affected limbs and ‘ sometimes ’ to a further 12 ( 4 per cent ) . |
| 16 | The percentage reporting that they always felt lonely showed little change with age . |
| 17 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 18 | They say it 's too soon considering that they just started work with Bull on them , as we ourselves noted . |
| 19 | Yes of course maybe play acting when they 're doing that they 're more conscious of the way they 're speaking and they probably want to make it right with what they think it should be . |
| 20 | Tess became more and more exhausted and was near to fainting when they finally stopped . |
| 21 | GREY November or no , Festival fever is here again , with its prospects for of makin' whoopee and temperatures rising as they always do with the actual Festival opening . |
| 22 | Could it , could people please stop conferring a minute , er , that is actually the government , saying that they no longer gon na give grants , their going to give us the right to borrow , and are actually encouraging us to do it . |
| 23 | The International Herald Tribune of Jan. 22 quoted US administration officials as saying that they strongly suspected that Israel had supplied cluster bombs to the Ethiopian Air Force . |
| 24 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 25 | Neutrinos are hard to detect : they interact so little with matter that they can probably float through entire galaxies without being affected ; they exist but have no mass nor any other physical property , which is like saying that they simultaneously exist and do not exist . |
| 26 | Erm maintenance of the Road football pitch , we 've had some complaints er on the er Road football pitch which relate to the er caravan access , erm caravan use , we 've also had some er comments from the Pub , saying that they actually appreciate the caravans being in the area because of the increased trade . |
| 27 | are you saying that they actually deliberately were trying |
| 28 | But you 're given this very general instruction to begin with that yes we are returning to land reform and that the peasants are , are seizing land and this is what you should be supporting , and then when you come on to they , as you 're saying that they really are quite moderate . |
| 29 | No doubt Harry 's family would also have replied in the affirmative , indicating that they really did not know what happiness was . |
| 30 | Right so was it , they , they were getting they were joining cos they wanted to they did n't , they were joining cos they actively wanted to be involved in a revolutionary sort of |