Example sentences of "[pron] is [v-ing] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , another advantage is erm , with various er chores , which is copying or deleting files . |
| 2 | As a as a churchgoer and a committed christian I mean I I quoted earlier on this morning from the Sun newspaper this morning which is ranting and raving this morning on the subject of erm well it claims that the the Archbishop of Canterbury er Dr Carey is saying that erm Charles could never be king of this country erm because erm he had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles |
| 3 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp is disappointed with its Sparc business , which is falling and impacted its earnings in at least the last quarter : but now it reckons its Pinnacle Sparc shot ( UX No 381 ) will save the day in the second half . |
| 4 | Equally a yacht which is cruising and has more power-consuming electronic equipment , such as a refrigerator , which might use 200 amps during a week , would require a much larger generator , one that could recharge at 28.6 amps per day ( 1.2 amp/hr ) . |
| 5 | Tarento — derives from the word ‘ talent ’ but you do n't need any to be a tarento — if anything , it would be something of a handicap in their profession , which is smirking and tittering into a microphone in TV game shows . |
| 6 | They 're members of the Taylor Woodrow team and part of the consortium which is designing and constructing the largest underseas transport system in the world . |
| 7 | Also , what you generally find is that if somebody is reading as opposed to refreshing their memory from looking at a piece of paper and then letting it flow , if they 're reading from it it 's dull , it lacks sparkle . |
| 8 | ‘ She thinks that she is helping and encouraging me . ’ |
| 9 | And she has got the courage to look at that million people , which takes courage , and look at the thousand which she is helping and saying , no love is never wasted . |
| 10 | However when she is heeling and lurching her way to windward the aggregate of the tensions in the shrouds and stays which support the masts is comparable to the ship 's displacement and may thus amount to several thousand tons . |
| 11 | Firstly , in relation to users and carers , the practitioner may well be aware that she is identifying and discussing needs which are unlikely to be met within the current limits and range of available services . |
| 12 | But Close , who is considering whether to resign in protest , insisted : ‘ There are two tours this winter by the West Indies . |
| 13 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 14 | every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening to break the peace refrain from doing so … |
| 15 | ‘ every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening the peace refrain from doing so ; and those reasonable steps in appropriate cases will include detaining him against his will . ’ |
| 16 | Actor and singer Jimmy Nail , who is producing and directing the next series of his show , is offering would-be actors just £30 to appear . |
| 17 | It should also be remembered that anyone , married or single , who is maintaining or accommodating a dependent relative over 65 ( or a mother or mother-in-law on her own ) is entitled to claim a tax allowance . |
| 18 | The present-day sociolinguist , however , who is observing and exploring a ‘ new ’ language situation is in a close-up position ; he or she can observe the phenomena at successively finer levels of detail and thus reveal fine-grained patterns that are not accessible in historically attested states . |
| 19 | Composers Pen is ideally suited to the serious musician who is arranging or composing for a choir , brass-band or orchestra but not for commercial publication . |
| 20 | Still , such claims do seem to have force when fitted to the case of the writer who is making or mediating them . |
| 21 | A fair catch can be made by a player who is running when making the catch inside his 22 metre area . |
| 22 | Gardens , said Gertrude Jekyll , ‘ may either be fashioned into a dream of beauty , a place of perfect rest and refreshment of the mind and body — a series of soul-satisfying pictures … or they may be so misused that everything is jarring and displeasing . |
| 23 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 24 | There is no better way of practising the language one is learning than using it outside the classroom . |
| 25 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 26 | One can conceive the theoretical possibility of an all-embracing ethic in which every moment of every life is in principle evaluable by its degree of awareness , by how intelligently one is acting or reacting . |
| 27 | Industry is , in some ways , rather like war ; there can be no doubt whether one is winning or losing . |
| 28 | But at least it is a world where one is in no doubt whether one is winning or losing , and where the prizes of success are substantial ones , not only for oneself , but for all one 's friends and colleagues within the organization . |
| 29 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |
| 30 | Minimally , therefore , it conveys the idea of giving grounds for what one is saying or doing . |