Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 2 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 3 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 4 | He or she is actually trying to exercise power over nurse or mother . |
| 5 | He or she is certainly making a commitment to trust God . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) A solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body , or a recognised body which is an officer or member of a recognised body , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a director or member of a recognised body , shall not by any act or omission by himself ( or itself ) or with any other person cause , instigate or connive at any breach of these Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of these Rules or section 9 of the Act and , for the avoidance of doubt , it is confirmed that a solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body remains personally subject to all the rules , principles and requirements of conducting affecting solicitors . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) A solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body , or a recognised body which is an officer or member of a recognised body , or a registered foreign lawyer who is a director or member of a recognised body , shall not by any act or omission by himself ( or itself ) or with any other person cause , instigate or connive at any breach of these Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of these Rules or section 9 of the Act and , for the avoidance of doubt , it is confirmed that a solicitor who is an officer , member or employee of or who is otherwise working in the practice of a recognised body remains personally subject to all the rules , principles and requirements of conducting affecting solicitors . |
| 8 | 11 Do n't allow yourself to be dominated by the student who always knows , or thinks he knows , the answer or who is always asking you questions or giving his opinion on the state of the world . |
| 9 | WHO WILL guard the guardians in the Philippines , where it is rapidly becoming clear that President Aquino does not command her own army ? |
| 10 | Note the pp of the horn against the p of clarinet and bassoons in the last two bars , where it is merely completing their harmony . |
| 11 | That purchase added around 3 percentage points to its share of the liquid milk market , taking it to 16 per cent , where it is now snapping at the heels of the second-largest operator , Dairy Crest , the marketing subsidiary of the MMB , which claims a market share of around 17 per cent . |
| 12 | It is not necessary for the building society to be joined as a party to a registered land transfer where it is only receiving the benefit of a covenant to observe and perform the terms of the mortgage by the wife ( and not releasing the husband ) because it can enforce the covenant without being a party ( Chelsea and Walham Green Building Society v Armstrong [ 1951 ] Ch 853 ) . |
| 13 | somewhere in Mexico , the central part of it where it 's still falling to bits and |
| 14 | Either there are more bitches on heat in the village nowadays , or he 's simply getting into the habit of looking . |
| 15 | Depending on which gossip column you read he 's either planning to wed his long-term live-in girlfriend , Toukie Smith , sister of the late fashion designer Willie Smith , or he 's secretly dating model Naomi Campbell . |
| 16 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 17 | And I do n't fancy a house that somebody 's actually living in . |
| 18 | Tracey said that she 's just gon na be one of these the judge either likes you or he do n't like you . |
| 19 | It seems to me that she 's also saying , it 's also a plea , on Charlotte Bronte 's behalf to men , to want women who come to them developed , independent and |
| 20 | I mean , it 's not that she 's probably gon na go after it but I , you know , who knows ! |
| 21 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 22 | To the extent that she 's now confusing the show business quality of performing well in public — at which she excels — with spirituality and saintliness . |
| 23 | There is , of course , nothing wrong with trying to look your best , but for the born-again Weldon to refuse to see anyone unless she spent half the day in the hairdressers and then proclaim that she 's only doing it to further her career ( oh , please ) smacks of hypocrisy of the very highest order . |
| 24 | She thinks that she 's merely bringing him down to meet Jim and me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The trouble is that she 's constantly demanding , day and night . ’ |
| 26 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 27 | That she is probably dealing with a barren original only emphasizes the problems of conventionality . |
| 28 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 29 | The procedure continues for weeks with the man unable to tell the girl that he still buys the ticket even though he no longer has a car , and the girl not wanting to hurt his feelings by revealing that she is just taking a short cut , walking through the car park on her way to W. H. Smith . |
| 30 | I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves . |